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Cost Optimization & FinOps

Cut AWS waste.
Not capability.

We help enterprise IT teams recover meaningful savings from their AWS spend — through Reserved Instance strategy, Savings Plans, rightsizing, and FinOps operating models that give engineering and finance full visibility.

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FinOps Health Check

Average enterprise client recovers 23% savings within 90 days of engagement — without performance impact.

23%
avg. AWS spend reduction
90
days to first savings
Capabilities

What we deliver

A structured approach to AWS cost management — from quick wins through to a sustained FinOps culture that keeps costs under control as you scale.

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Cost Audit & Baseline

A comprehensive analysis of your AWS spend — identifying waste, sizing mismatches, unused resources, and the highest-impact savings opportunities across your estate.

  • AWS Cost Explorer analysis
  • Resource utilisation audit
  • Idle & zombie resource detection
  • Savings opportunity sizing
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Reserved Instance Strategy

Data-driven RI purchasing strategy aligned to your actual workload patterns — maximising coverage without over-committing to instance families you may phase out.

  • RI coverage analysis
  • Convertible vs standard RI guidance
  • Multi-account RI sharing design
  • RI portfolio management
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Savings Plans

Compute, EC2, and SageMaker Savings Plans configured to match your commitment appetite — with modelling of break-even scenarios and coverage dashboards.

  • Savings Plans modelling
  • Compute vs EC2 Plans selection
  • Utilisation monitoring
  • Renewal & adjustment planning
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Rightsizing & Modernisation

Systematic rightsizing of EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and container workloads — using AWS Compute Optimizer data to make safe, evidence-based resizing decisions.

  • Compute Optimizer recommendations
  • Graviton migration assessment
  • ECS / EKS rightsizing
  • RDS instance class optimisation
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FinOps Operating Model

Build the FinOps capability your organisation needs — cost allocation tags, showback/chargeback models, team accountability frameworks, and executive cost dashboards.

  • Tagging strategy & enforcement
  • Cost allocation by team / product
  • Chargeback model design
  • Monthly FinOps review cadence
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Budgets & Anomaly Detection

Proactive cost controls — budget alerts, anomaly detection, and automated remediation that catch unexpected spend before it becomes a bill shock at month end.

  • AWS Budgets configuration
  • Cost anomaly detection
  • Slack / email alert integration
  • Automated shutdown policies
Use Cases

Where we find
the biggest savings

01 / EC2 & Compute

Compute fleet optimisation

Audit and rightsizing of an over-provisioned EC2 fleet across 3 AWS accounts — combining Graviton migration, Reserved Instances, and instance class rightsizing into a phased savings programme.

34% reduction in EC2 spend
Zero application performance degradation
Full RI coverage achieved within 60 days
02 / Data & Analytics

RDS & data platform savings

Rightsizing and Reserved Instance coverage for a large RDS fleet supporting analytics workloads — with read replica consolidation and Aurora Serverless v2 migration for variable-demand databases.

41% reduction in RDS monthly costs
Aurora Serverless migration for dev/test
Reserved Instances covering 89% of production
03 / FinOps Culture

Organisational cost accountability

Implementation of a full FinOps operating model across a 200-person engineering organisation — tagging strategy, team cost dashboards, monthly review process, and chargeback to product lines.

100% resource tagging coverage achieved
Per-team cost visibility from day one
Engineering-led cost governance framework
04 / Storage & Data Transfer

S3 and data egress optimisation

Analysis and restructuring of S3 storage tiers, lifecycle policies, and cross-region data transfer patterns — eliminating the hidden costs that accumulate at scale.

S3 Intelligent-Tiering across 400TB
68% reduction in data transfer costs
Lifecycle policies automating archival
Our Approach

Savings that stick

01

Cost Audit

Comprehensive spend analysis across all accounts — identifying the 20% of resources responsible for 80% of waste.

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Prioritised Roadmap

Ranked savings initiatives by impact, effort, and risk — so your team can act on quick wins immediately while planning larger optimisations.

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Implementation

Rightsizing, RI/SP purchases, tagging, and automation deployed safely alongside your engineering teams with zero disruption to production workloads.

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FinOps Enablement

Dashboards, processes, and team training so your organisation owns cost management continuously — not just as a one-off engagement.

AWS Services

The cost management
toolchain we use

AWS Cost Explorer

Spend analysis & forecasting

AWS Compute Optimizer

Rightsizing recommendations

AWS Budgets

Budget alerts & controls

Cost Anomaly Detection

Unexpected spend alerting

Reserved Instances

Committed use discounts

Savings Plans

Flexible commitment pricing

AWS Organizations

Multi-account cost management

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

Automated storage optimisation

Find out how much you're overspending on AWS.

Book a cost audit call — we'll review your AWS bill and identify savings opportunities with no obligation.

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specialist

Whether you've just had a surprise AWS bill or want to build a sustainable cost management practice — we'll help you get control.

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