AWS bills grow quietly. Nobody decides to spend an extra two thousand a month; it accumulates from instances that outlived their project, volumes nobody detached, gateways left behind by a cluster that was deleted months ago.
We audit the bill against what's actually running and hand you a prioritised list with the annual saving next to each item.
What's Included
A worked example
A seven-account AWS optimization project we led eliminated $183,000 a year of waste. It was found with a billing-driven analysis pipeline built for the job — Bash and Python against Cost Explorer — with automated checks against live AWS so the savings didn't quietly come back.
That was prior in-house work rather than a client engagement, but the method is the one we bring to yours: start from the bill, not from a checklist. Billing misses nothing. A resource probe only finds what it thinks to ask about, and the expensive things hide in the services nobody went looking at.
What the audit covers
- Top spend by service, account and region — including regions nobody checks
- Idle and stopped compute still being paid for
- Unattached volumes, stale snapshots, unassociated elastic IPs
- Load balancers with no healthy targets
- NAT gateway data processing, which is usually the surprise
- gp2 volumes that should be gp3
- Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage gaps
- Right-sizing, based on what the workload actually uses
What you get
A written assessment, findings ranked by annual saving against effort to fix, and a remediation list you can hand to your own team. Read-only access throughout — nothing gets changed during an audit.
Optionally, you can have us handle the remediation. Because we already know exactly what needs changing by that point, remediation after our own audit is quoted at a reduced rate, with a written estimate before any work starts. There is no obligation to buy it from us.
The honest part
Most of the time the audit pays for itself in the first two findings. Sometimes it doesn't, because the estate is already tight. We'll tell you that, and it's still worth knowing.