Stop paying AWS for things you no longer use

We trace where the money goes, remove waste, size resources to real demand and keep watching so the savings stick.

Sound familiar?

Which of these sounds like your team?

Flat traffic, rising bill

Nothing about your usage has changed, so why is each invoice bigger?

Who is spending what?

You can't tell which product or team is behind each line on the bill.

Leftovers still running

Long-finished projects left behind snapshots and test setups that you are still charged for.

Built for the busiest day

Servers and databases carry capacity for a peak that seldom arrives.

Why pay on-demand for something constant?

Some workloads run at the same level all month, yet you buy them at on-demand rates.

The clean-up never sticks

After every tidy-up, spending slowly climbs back.

Process

How we work

  1. 01

    Read the bill

    We go through your invoices and usage data line by line.

  2. 02

    Decide what to tackle first

    The cheap, fast savings come first. Deeper changes to the architecture wait their turn, ranked by what they save against the work involved.

  3. 03

    Make the changes

    We remove waste, resize resources and switch to better pricing models.

  4. 04

    Watch it every month

    Budgets and a review each month stop costs drifting back up.

Specifics

Technical details

  • Spend broken down by environment, product and team through tags, allocation rules and dashboards
  • We delete what nobody uses: instances sitting idle, volumes no longer attached, snapshots past their purpose and forgotten test environments
  • Usage data, not guesswork, decides how big each resource should be
  • Steady workloads covered by Savings Plans or reserved capacity, and Spot Instances for work that can tolerate being interrupted
  • Spiky workloads moved to serverless, data moved to cheaper storage tiers, and environments switched off on a timer
  • Savings are kept in place through a FinOps cycle: budgets and alerts between reviews, and a review every month

Options

Flexible to fit you

  • A single round of savingsorContinuous cost management
  • Begin in a single accountorCover every account you have
  • Your engineers make the changesorGrootan makes them for you

Measurement

What we measure

  • The total on each month's AWS invoice
  • What each product or customer costs you to serve
  • How much of the bill can be traced to a team
  • How much steady usage runs under a Savings Plan

FAQ

Questions we hear

Why does our AWS bill feel so high?

Paying for resources you don't use, or for ones bigger than you need, can make it so. The fix follows from how AWS bills: you pay for use, so cut the waste and the bill falls.

When will the bill actually drop?

Clean-up and resizing are the quick wins, and their effect often shows on your next monthly bill.

Could cutting costs slow our systems down?

That is what the performance check after every change is there to catch.

How much would a cost review cost us?

That depends on how complex your setup is and how much of it is in scope. The first call is where we work it out.

Find the waste in your AWS bill

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