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AWS Cost Optimisation

Cut your AWS bill by 25 to 40 percent.

Reserved Instance planning, right-sizing, Savings Plans, idle resource cleanup, and S3 lifecycle policies. Most clients reduce their AWS spend within 60 days with no performance impact.

Reserved Instances
Savings Plans
Right-Sizing
Monthly Reviews
38%
Average AWS cost reduction
60 days
Time to full savings
Monthly
Spend reviews included
100%
Spend visibility achieved
What Is Included

Every saving lever pulled. Every penny found.

A comprehensive approach to AWS cost management that delivers savings in the first month and maintains them as your environment grows.

Reserved Instance Planning

Stable workloads analysed and matched to the right Reserved Instance commitment. One-year and three-year terms evaluated against your growth plans. Convertible RIs used where flexibility is needed.

Reserved InstancesCommitment TermsConvertible RIs

Right-Sizing

EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and other compute resources analysed against actual CPU, memory, and network utilisation. Oversized instances identified and resized without impacting performance.

EC2 Right-SizingRDS SizingUtilisation Analysis

Savings Plans

Compute Savings Plans and EC2 Instance Savings Plans purchased based on your committed usage patterns. Coverage tracked monthly and adjusted as your workloads evolve.

Compute Savings PlansEC2 Savings PlansCoverage Tracking

Idle Resource Cleanup

Unattached EBS volumes, unused Elastic IPs, idle NAT gateways, empty load balancers, and forgotten snapshots identified and removed. Waste elimination typically saves 10 to 15 percent alone.

EBS VolumesElastic IPsOrphaned Snapshots

S3 Lifecycle Policies

S3 storage classes optimised with lifecycle policies that move infrequently accessed data to cheaper tiers automatically. Intelligent-Tiering, Glacier, and Deep Archive configured where appropriate.

S3 LifecycleIntelligent-TieringGlacier

Cost Allocation and Tagging

Tagging policies enforced across your AWS accounts so every resource is attributed to a team, project, or cost centre. Chargeback reporting and budget alerts configured per tag.

Tagging PolicyCost AllocationChargeback
How We Work

From audit to savings in under 30 days.

A structured process that identifies savings quickly and builds a sustainable cost management framework for the long term.

01

Spend Audit

Full analysis of your AWS accounts, services, and spend patterns. Every region, every account, every service reviewed. Savings opportunities ranked by impact.

02

Quick Wins

Idle resources, orphaned storage, and unused Elastic IPs removed in the first two weeks. Most clients see 10 to 15 percent savings before any architectural changes.

03

Right-Sizing

Compute and database instances resized based on utilisation data. Changes implemented during agreed maintenance windows with rollback plans in place.

04

Commitment Planning

Reserved Instances and Savings Plans purchased based on stable workload patterns. Commitment strategy reviewed quarterly to maintain optimal discount coverage.

05

S3 Optimisation

Storage lifecycle policies applied across all S3 buckets. Intelligent-Tiering enabled where access patterns are unpredictable. Glacier used for archival data.

06

Ongoing Reviews

Monthly spend reviews, budget alerts, and continuous optimisation. Savings maintained and improved as your AWS environment grows and changes.

Real Results

AWS cost savings delivered for UK businesses.

FinTech Startup, London

A 30-person FinTech company was spending over 12,000 pounds per month on AWS with no tagging strategy, oversized instances, and unused Elastic IPs across three accounts.

AWS spend reduced to 7,400 pounds per month within 60 days. Savings Plans and right-sizing delivered 38 percent cost reduction with no performance impact.

SaaS Business, Bristol

A SaaS company had migrated to AWS two years earlier but had never reviewed their Reserved Instance coverage. On-demand pricing was being paid for workloads that had been stable for 18 months.

Three-year Reserved Instances purchased for stable workloads. Monthly AWS bill reduced by 31 percent. Savings Plans added for variable compute. Total annual saving of 42,000 pounds.

Media Company, Birmingham

A digital media company had accumulated years of S3 data with no lifecycle policies. Storage costs were growing 8 percent month on month with no clear reason why.

S3 lifecycle policies applied across 14 buckets. Intelligent-Tiering enabled for media assets. Storage costs reduced by 44 percent. Growth rate returned to near zero.

Get Started

Spending too much on AWS? We will find exactly where.

Our free AWS spend audit reviews your accounts, identifies waste, and gives you a prioritised savings plan with cost reduction estimates. No commitment required.