Cloud Cost Optimization for AWS & Azure
Find and remove cloud waste, reduce monthly AWS and Azure spend, and build better cost governance — without slowing down your engineering team.
Cloud costs rarely get out of control because of one big mistake
Most cloud overspend comes from many small decisions that were reasonable at the time. A larger instance to solve a short-term issue. A test environment left running. Storage growing without lifecycle rules. Logs retained for too long. Databases over-provisioned. Old snapshots and disks still attached to nothing. Kubernetes quietly over-allocating.
Over time, the cloud estate becomes expensive, harder to explain and harder to govern.
Where waste hides
Oversized compute
Resources bigger than the workload actually needs.
Idle environments
Dev, test and staging systems running when nobody is using them.
Storage waste
Unused disks, snapshots, backups and object storage adding recurring cost.
Logging & monitoring creep
Telemetry costs grow because retention and ingestion aren't managed.
Weak tagging & ownership
Finance can't see which team, customer or product drives spend.
Poor buying strategy
Savings Plans, RIs, Azure Reservations or Hybrid Benefit underused.
What cloud cost optimization includes
Engineering, financial analysis and governance combined. The goal isn't simply to cut the bill — it's to reduce avoidable spend while protecting performance, resilience and delivery speed.
AWS cost optimization
EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda, NAT Gateway, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS and account-level spend review.
Learn more →Azure cost optimization
VMs, App Services, Azure SQL, Storage, AKS, Log Analytics, Reservations and Hybrid Benefit.
Learn more →Cloud cost assessment
Structured review of spend, waste, tagging, reporting and governance.
Learn more →Cost governance
Reporting, budgets, ownership, tagging and approval controls.
Learn more →Savings calculator
Estimate potential savings based on spend, provider and waste indicators.
Learn more →Benchmarks
Compare your cost maturity against practical benchmarks for SaaS and tech.
Learn more →The outcome: lower spend, clearer ownership, fewer surprises
A good cloud cost review gives you more than a list of possible savings — it gives confidence that recommendations are safe, prioritised and linked to your business goals.
- ✓Identify quick wins that reduce avoidable spend fast
- ✓Separate safe savings from risky changes
- ✓Understand which products, teams or customers drive cost
- ✓Improve tagging, reporting and budget visibility
- ✓Build a cost governance rhythm engineering and finance can use
- ✓Avoid performance problems caused by blunt cost-cutting
- ✓Create a practical roadmap for AWS or Azure cost control
Where cloud savings usually come from
Compute right-sizing
Scheduling non-prod
Storage lifecycle
Database tuning
RIs / Savings Plans
Log retention control
Network / data transfer
Kubernetes efficiency
Backup & snapshot cleanup
Tagging & allocation
SaaS tenant visibility
Account governance
AWS and Azure need different playbooks
Principles are similar, but the savings opportunities differ. IG CloudOps works across both — useful for SaaS businesses with hybrid or multi-cloud estates.
Common concerns about cloud cost reduction
Ready to find avoidable cloud waste?
Start with a practical cloud cost review covering AWS or Azure, governance and quick wins.