AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Assessment

We deliver your report within 7 business days of receiving read-only access to the accounts you want scanned. It requires minimal time from your team — typically a short architecture interview. Realized savings usually appear within one to two billing cycles after you apply the recommendations.

We require a read-only IAM role so our AI agents can scan your environment comprehensively. Our engineer also conducts interviews with your team to understand workload context, business requirements, and architectural decisions that no automated scan can capture.

No. The entire assessment is non-invasive. We use read-only access to inspect configurations, resource utilization, and architecture — nothing is modified, deployed, or deleted during the review.

You receive a formal report documenting findings across all six Well-Architected Framework pillars, with risk severity ratings, estimated cost savings, and a prioritized action plan you can execute immediately.

The assessment delivers the plan, not the changes — we don't modify your environment during the review, because cost fixes carry real risk (deleting the wrong EBS snapshot can destroy a backup; trimming the wrong access can break payroll). Every finding ships as a suggested corrective action you can apply on your own schedule. If you'd like us to handle it, remediation is a separate, approval-gated engagement — nothing changes without your explicit sign-off.

A flat fee set by the size of your environment: $1,500 for under $5,000/month in AWS spend, $2,500 for $5,000–$10,000/month, $4,500 for $10,000–$25,000/month, and $9,500 for $25,000–$45,000/month. Above $45,000/month — where teams usually run multiple accounts — we scope a custom assessment. No success fees and no surprises.

Typical savings range from 30% to 55% of monthly cloud spend, depending on your current state. Environments that have never been optimized tend to see the highest reductions. We provide specific cost estimates in the assessment report.

The assessment is built on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, so it's purpose-built for AWS environments. However, many of the architectural and cost optimization principles we apply transfer to multi-cloud setups.

This assessment is designed for mid-market businesses running production workloads on AWS, typically spending between $5,000 and $100,000 or more per month on cloud infrastructure. If your cloud bill has grown beyond what your team can easily explain, this is for you.

Yes. Choosing between Savings Plans and Reserved Instances is one of the most impactful cost optimization decisions, and we analyze which option — or combination — saves the most based on your actual workload patterns. Many clients have zero commitment-based discounts in place, leaving 30–40% savings untouched.

Our assessment aligns with FinOps best practices — giving engineering, finance, and operations teams shared visibility into cloud spend. The difference is we combine AI-powered scanning with hands-on engineer analysis, rather than giving you a dashboard to interpret yourself. You get a prioritized action plan — and, if you want it, a team that can implement it — not another tool to manage.