AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Assessment
If your AWS bill keeps growing and no one on the team can fully explain why, you're not alone — and the waste is likely already baked into your infrastructure. Our assessment combines AI agents that scan your entire environment in hours with engineers who interpret the findings, interview your team, and implement the fixes. A complete Well-Architected Framework review — in 30 days, not months.
Cloud Costs Are Growing Faster Than Businesses Can Explain
Most organizations were already overpaying for cloud before AI. Now they're layering generative AI workloads on top of an already inefficient foundation — compounding waste on waste. Without cloud cost management, the problem only accelerates.
Financial Leaders
Cloud bills are growing unpredictably and no one can explain why. Industry data shows organizations waste 27% of cloud spend on average, and AI workloads are driving costs up another 30%. For every $3 spent on cloud, $1 is wasted.
Technical Leaders
Environments were built fast during migration, then never revisited. Architecture has drifted. Now AI and ML services are layered on top of infrastructure that was never optimized in the first place — and no one has a clear picture of what's running or why.
Operations Teams
Compliance and visibility gaps are everywhere. Only 43% of organizations track cloud costs at the unit level. Without proper tagging, budgets, or monitoring, teams can't answer basic questions about which workloads cost what — or whether they're even necessary.
Stop Monitoring the Problem. Start Fixing It.
There's a massive difference between observability — seeing the bill — and remediation — lowering the bill. Most FinOps tools sell you the first and leave you stuck there.
Mid-market companies don't have dedicated cloud financial teams. When they buy a heavyweight FinOps platform, they're adding another line item to the very invoice they're trying to shrink. The tool tells them S3 spend is up 20% — but it doesn't know why their engineers architected it that way.
The FinOps Foundation defines three phases: Inform, Optimize, Operate. Most companies get stuck in Inform — because they don't have the Operate muscle. They end up with dashboards full of recommendations that go straight to the bottom of the engineering backlog.
The bottleneck was never a lack of data. It's a lack of bandwidth.
Typical FinOps Tools
Stratto Assessment
FinOps tools work well for enterprises with dedicated cloud financial teams. If you're a mid-market company without a FinOps practice, you don't need another tool to monitor the problem — you need someone to solve it.
Comprehensive Cost Optimization Assessment
A deep evaluation across all six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework — from cloud cost optimization to security and performance.
Well-Architected Review
Complete evaluation across all six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
Security & Risk Analysis
Focused review of security posture, identity access management, encryption practices, and threat exposure.
Cost Optimization Deep Dive
Identify savings through instance sizing, reserved capacity optimization, storage right-sizing, and waste elimination.
Comprehensive Report
Structured documentation including improvement areas, prioritized action items, cost-saving estimates, and AWS best practice alignment.
Remediation Support
Optional implementation of recommended changes, environment optimization, and continuous monitoring for additional opportunities.
Performance Benchmarking
Analyze resource-to-workload alignment, identify bottlenecks, and ensure your infrastructure meets performance targets.
How AWS Cost Optimization Actually Works
Not a dashboard. Not a manual audit. AI agents analyze your environment at machine speed while engineers apply years of hands-on AWS experience to interpret, prioritize, and act.
AI Scan + Discovery
AI agents sweep your entire AWS account — every resource, every configuration, every cost pattern — in hours, not weeks. In parallel, our engineer interviews your team to understand the business context that no scanner can see.
Analysis + Report
The engineer synthesizes AI findings with team interviews into a formal report: findings by Well-Architected Framework pillar, risk severity ratings, cost-saving estimates, and a prioritized action plan — validated by human judgment, not just algorithms.
Action
Quick wins first — eliminating waste, right-sizing instances, closing security gaps. Then structural improvements: infrastructure as code, monitoring, and reserved capacity planning. The engineer implements. The AI validates nothing was missed.
Six Pillars of Excellence
Every assessment covers the complete AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Operational Excellence
System monitoring and issue resolution effectiveness
Security
Vulnerability and compliance risk identification
Reliability
Workload failure recovery and uptime assurance
Performance Efficiency
Resource-to-workload alignment analysis
Cost Optimization
Identifying underutilized resources and waste
Sustainability
Environmental impact assessment and energy reduction
Common Issues Across Mid-Market AWS Accounts
Our AI agents detect these patterns in hours. Our engineers have seen them for years. Here's what we consistently uncover across mid-market AWS accounts — and what's likely hiding in yours.
Operations
No infrastructure as code — everything built manually through the console. Minimal CloudWatch monitoring. No deployment automation or change management process.
Security
SSH open to the world on production instances. Overly permissive IAM policies granting full admin access. Unencrypted databases and S3 buckets. No AWS Config rules or GuardDuty threat detection enabled.
Reliability
Single availability zone deployments with no fault tolerance. No automated backups or disaster recovery plan. Application recovery depends entirely on manual intervention.
Performance
Over-provisioned instances running at 10–15% CPU utilization. No auto-scaling configured — paying for peak capacity 24/7. GPU instances left running long after AI training jobs complete.
Cost
No AWS Budgets or cost alerts configured. Zero Reserved Instances or Savings Plans in use — leaving thousands in savings on the table. Idle load balancers, unattached EBS volumes, and forgotten resources accumulating charges month after month.
Sustainability
No resource scheduling — development and test environments running 24/7. No scale-down strategy for off-peak hours. SageMaker endpoints serving zero traffic but incurring continuous charges.
Is this right for your team?
The AWS Cloud Assessment is designed for mid-market businesses running production workloads on AWS with monthly spend between $5,000 and $100,000+. Ideal for organizations seeking to reduce cloud costs, prepare for audits, or address growing technical debt.
Real Cloud Cost Optimization Results
A mid-market technology company came to us with multiple AWS accounts and no visibility into what was driving their cloud costs. Here's what happened after our AWS cost optimization assessment.
Monthly spend cut from $10,000+ to under $5,000 in the first month
Assessment completed and quick wins implemented within the first month
Security posture improved and compliance gaps identified across all accounts
You've Cut Costs. Now Keep Them Down.
An assessment gives you a clean, optimized environment — but without ongoing governance, costs drift back. Many of our assessment clients continue with one of two paths to keep their cloud operating at peak efficiency.
Cloud Managed Services
If your team needs hands-on engineering support, our managed services provide 24/7 monitoring, proactive incident management, and ongoing optimization. We become an extension of your team — the same engineers who ran your assessment continue managing your environment.
Best for: Teams that want to offload cloud operations entirely
Explore Cloud ServicesStrattoCloud Platform
If your team wants to keep control but needs enterprise-grade tooling, StrattoCloud gives you AI-powered operations across four dimensions — AIOps, CloudOps, Cloud Center of Excellence, and FinOps — for the price of a single FinOps dashboard. AI agents handle alert triage, compliance documentation, and cost allocation around the clock.
Best for: Teams that want to self-operate with AI augmentation
Explore StrattoCloudCommon Questions
Everything you need to know about AWS cost optimization and our cloud assessment service before getting started.
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