Most AWS bills carry waste nobody chose to create — idle resources, oversized instances, on-demand pricing where a commitment would do. Our fixed-scope Cost Optimization Sprint goes looking for it, with a clear scope and a written plan in the first month. No surprises, no lock-in.
Right-sizing · Savings Plans & RIs · scheduling · storage cleanup · spend guardrails
AWS bills rarely balloon for one big reason. They drift — a little here, a little there — until the monthly invoice no longer matches what's actually running. These are the six patterns that hide the most spend.
Instances, load balancers and endpoints spun up for a test or a project that ended — and never turned off. They keep billing whether or not anyone is using them.
Fix · find & decommissionCompute and databases sized for a peak that rarely arrives — running at single-digit utilization. Right-sizing to the real workload cuts the line item without touching performance.
Fix · right-size to demandSteady, predictable workloads still paying full on-demand rates. Savings Plans and Reserved Instances trade a commitment for a lower rate on exactly that baseline — money left on the table otherwise.
Fix · commit the baselineUnattached EBS volumes, years of forgotten snapshots and stale backups quietly accruing storage charges. A cleanup pass plus lifecycle rules stops the slow bleed.
Fix · clean up & tierCapacity provisioned for the busiest hour, then paid for around the clock. Scheduling non-production environments and autoscaling the rest means you pay for the load that's actually there.
Fix · schedule & autoscaleWhen nothing is tagged, no one owns a cost — so nothing gets questioned. A tagging policy and clear cost allocation turn the bill into something teams can actually be accountable for.
Fix · tag & allocateSix yes/no questions. Tick each one you can already say yes to — the gauge fills and shifts from amber to green as your cost-health coverage climbs. It's a directional read, not an audit; the Sprint does the real measurement on your account.
Tick the practices you already have in place to see your coverage.
Indicative self-check — the Cost Optimization Sprint measures the real numbers on your account.
There's no magic to cloud cost work — just four levers, applied in the right order, with the discipline to keep them tuned. The Sprint pulls all four.
Match every instance and database to the load it actually carries.
Cover the steady baseline with Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
Switch off what isn't needed off-hours; autoscale what is.
Remove orphaned storage, stale snapshots and untagged spend.
A short, fixed-scope FinOps engagement. We read your account, pull the four levers, and hand you a written, prioritized plan — with the scope agreed before we start, so there's no open-ended consulting meter running.
We analyze Cost Explorer, utilization and your tagging to map exactly where the money goes — and flag the idle, oversized and orphaned resources behind the six waste patterns.
Concrete recommendations: which resources to resize, what Savings Plans or RIs fit your baseline, and what to schedule off — each with the trade-offs spelled out, not just a number.
An itemized cleanup of unattached volumes, stale snapshots and untagged spend, plus the lifecycle and tagging policies that stop it all from quietly creeping back.
Budgets, anomaly alerts and a tagging standard, so savings don't erode the moment the Sprint ends — and the next surprise on the bill becomes an alert, not a discovery.
Tell us a little about your AWS estate. We'll come back within two business days to scope a Cost Optimization Sprint — and flag any AWS funding your wider cloud work may qualify for.