AWS
Reduce AWS spend without risking performance
AWS costs grow quickly when accounts, workloads, storage, logs and environments aren't actively governed. We identify waste, prioritise safe savings and build a better cost control model.
Common AWS cost problems we find
Oversized EC2 instances
Underused RDS databases
Unattached EBS volumes
Old snapshots and AMIs
Inefficient S3 storage classes
NAT Gateway & data transfer spikes
CloudWatch ingestion & retention growth
Poor Savings Plan / RI coverage
Idle dev & test environments
EKS / ECS over-provisioning
AWS services we review
- ✓EC2
- ✓RDS
- ✓EBS
- ✓S3
- ✓Lambda
- ✓ECS
- ✓EKS
- ✓CloudWatch
- ✓NAT Gateway
- ✓Elastic Load Balancing
- ✓AWS Backup
- ✓Route 53
- ✓Data transfer
- ✓AWS Organizations
- ✓Cost Explorer
- ✓Budgets
- ✓Compute Optimizer
AWS cost optimization process
Billing & account review
Understand spend trends and organisation structure.
High-cost service analysis
Drill into top spend drivers across services.
Waste & right-sizing
Identify over-provisioned resources and idle environments.
Commitment & pricing
Review Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
Tagging & allocation
Map cost to teams, products and customers.
Savings roadmap
Prioritised, risk-rated implementation plan.
Quick wins for AWS cost reduction
- ✓Schedule non-production workloads
- ✓Right-size EC2 and RDS
- ✓Review EBS volumes and snapshots
- ✓Move S3 data to better storage classes
- ✓Reduce unnecessary log retention
- ✓Review NAT Gateway traffic patterns
- ✓Improve Savings Plan coverage
- ✓Add team, product and environment tags
Need a clearer view of AWS cost waste?
A practical AWS cost review separates safe quick wins from changes that need staged implementation.