AWS bill down 46% for a data governance SaaS (NDA)
- EC2 and ECS rightsized against real utilization
- Eligible workloads moved to Graviton
- S3 storage classes and ECR lifecycle policies applied
AWS bill down 46%
Cloud
Cloud Cost Optimization
The bill grew and nobody can say exactly why. A dashboard shows you the number. It will not tell you that an instance is oversized because a scaling policy has been compensating for something else, or whether resizing it during business hours is safe.
No sales layer, no juniors. You meet the engineer before anything begins.
// What is included
What you get
- Compute sizing, storage classes, transfer costs and discount coverage reviewed
- Forgotten environments and unowned resources surfaced
- Every finding with a figure and an effort estimate beside it
- Read-only access, revocable whenever you like, and the report is yours
// How it runs
The sequence
- 01
Read
Line-by-line pass through the account with read-only access.
- 02
Rank
Findings ordered by value against effort, not by count.
- 03
Implement
Safe quick wins applied, only with written approval first.
// Stack
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Graviton
- Amazon S3
- Snowflake
// Related work
Where this has been done before
Client names under NDA. The numbers are not.
Analytics warehouses under control, PII isolated (NDA)
- Single owner for schema and migrations across both warehouses
- Managed replication with personal data isolated from the analytics path
- Idle warehouses downsized automatically
Warehouse compute brought under control
// Questions
Before you ask
// Also in Cloud
Related services
Talk to the engineer who would do the work
A 20 minute call. You describe your setup, you get an honest read on whether this helps, and the top risks worth looking at first.