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Compute sizing
Oversized and idle instances, old generations.
CLOUD COST OPTIMIZATION
The bill, explained. Then reduced.
A short, fixed scope audit of your cloud spend. We find the waste, put a dollar figure on every line, and hand you a plan. What you do with it is up to you.
YOUR MONTHLY BILLHATCHED IS WHAT WE GO AFTER
COMPUTESTORAGETRAFFIC
Typical result: twenty to forty percent off the monthly bill, and it stays off.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
- The bill has tripled and revenue has not.
- Nobody is quite sure what half of these resources do.
- Finance has questions engineering cannot answer quickly.
The audit exists for exactly this. Two weeks later you know where every dollar goes, and which ones can stay with you.
WHAT THE AUDIT IS
FIXED SCOPE, READ ONLYRead only access, thirty to ninety days of billing and usage data, and one to two weeks of senior attention. During an audit we cannot change anything in your accounts, only look.
The output is a findings list with a dollar figure on every line, ordered by effort and risk, and a plan you can execute with anyone. The typical result is twenty to forty percent off the monthly bill.
WHAT WE CHECK
EIGHT PLACES THE MONEY HIDES02
Pricing model
What belongs on commitments, what belongs on spot, what is fine on demand.
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Storage
Volume types, lifecycle policies, snapshots nobody remembers.
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Orphaned resources
Unattached volumes, idle addresses, load balancers pointing at nothing.
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Traffic
Cross zone chatter and data transfer nobody planned.
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Kubernetes
Requests against real usage, bin packing, idle nodes.
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Databases
Oversized engines, idle instances, provisioned capacity nobody uses.
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Governance
Tagging, budgets and alerts, so the waste does not grow back.
SAMPLE FINDINGS
ONE REPRESENTATIVE SETUPWhat findings look like
A representative mid size setup. Your numbers will differ. That is the point of the audit.
FINDINGMONTHLY
- Oversized instances in production
- 1,840 USD
- Unattached volumes and old snapshots
- 610 USD
- Cross zone traffic nobody planned
- 990 USD
- Over provisioned database capacity
- 720 USD
- Dev environments running nights and weekends
- 540 USD
- No commitment coverage on steady workloads
- 1,150 USD
Identified in this example5,850 USD / mo70,200 USD / yr
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER
The report is yours either way. Some clients hand it to their own team and fix everything themselves, and that is a fine outcome. Some ask us to implement it as a fixed scope sprint. Some roll straight into managed so the waste never grows back. And sometimes the honest answer is a different home for your systems, including off the cloud. We say that too.
HOW IT WORKS
ACCESS TO FINDINGS IN TWO WEEKS- DAY 1
A scoped read only role, nothing else.
- WEEK 1 TO 2
Analysis of billing and usage, questions in a shared channel.
- THE FINDINGS CALL
Every line explained, every dollar figure defended, the plan handed over.
A fixed price for a defined scope, agreed before we start, based on the size of your setup. Not a retainer, not hourly. One number, one deliverable.
QUESTIONS WE GET
ASK US ANYTHING ELSE ON THE CALL- Is the access really safe?
- Read only, scoped to billing and usage, revoked when we are done. We cannot change anything, only look.
- What if you find nothing?
- Then you have a tight setup and a short report saying so. It happens, rarely.
- Do we have to implement with you?
- No. The plan is written so anyone competent can execute it. If you want hands, ours are available.
- Which clouds do you cover?
- AWS, GCP and Azure. Kubernetes on any of them.
- We are not on the cloud. Can you still help?
- This audit is built around cloud billing data. For hardware of your own we do an infrastructure review instead. Ask us.
- How long does it take?
- One to two weeks from access to the findings call.
- How much does it cost?
- A fixed price agreed before we start, based on the size of your setup. It does not change mid audit.
Send us a rough idea of your monthly bill.
If your setup is too small for an audit to pay for itself, we will say so.