AWS Cost and Cloud Health Assessment

Understand what AWS is costing—and what the environment needs next.

Connect cloud spend to utilization, architecture, reliability, and operational hygiene. We help you find the cost drivers, savings opportunities, and platform improvements that are worth acting on.

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Start with the Free AWS Assessment, or scope a quantified written review through Professional Services.

What we answer

Where the money goes and what to do about it

01

Spend drivers

Which services, accounts, workloads, regions, or usage changes are driving the bill—and whether the change is expected.

02

Utilization and waste

Idle resources, oversized compute, unattached storage, inefficient data transfer, and other recurring spend without matching value.

03

Pricing commitments

Where Savings Plans, reservations, storage tiers, or architecture changes may improve economics without hiding operational tradeoffs.

04

Cloud health

Reliability, backup, observability, service limits, tagging, and governance gaps that create cost or operational risk.

Two useful depths

Get quick direction or a quantified improvement backlog

Cost questions in the Free AWS Assessment

Bring the AWS bill, a Cost Explorer view, or the line item that does not make sense. We’ll discuss what changed, where to look next, and which actions are likely to matter.

  • One-hour conversation during your team’s U.S. business day
  • No AWS account access required
  • Verbal findings and recommendations; no written report

Scoped cost and cloud health assessment

For a deeper decision, we scope the accounts, workloads, time period, and evidence sources before collecting data. The result is a written findings register and prioritized improvement backlog.

  • Measured cost, utilization, and coverage evidence
  • Quantified opportunities tied to specific findings
  • Engineering actions organized by impact, effort, and dependency

We agree the accounts, evidence, deliverables, access, and price before the assessment begins.

Scope a written assessment
Evidence

Use the AWS data that supports the decision

Depending on scope and availability, the review can use AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports or Data Exports, Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, AWS Budgets, tagging data, and existing Well-Architected findings. We state what was available, what was not, and how that affects each recommendation.

What the written assessment can include

  • Spend drivers and unexpected changes
  • Resource-level optimization opportunities
  • Commitment and architecture tradeoffs
  • Reliability and governance gaps connected to cost
How it works

From bill question to prioritized action

01

Start with the free hour

Discuss the business goal, current spend, known changes, and the decision you need to make.

02

Scope the evidence

If written depth is useful, define the accounts, workloads, data, access, and analysis period.

03

Validate and prioritize

Connect measured findings to practical changes, dependencies, expected impact, and implementation effort.

04

Execute the backlog

Your team can own it, or Uptempo can deliver focused work through Professional Services or monthly Managed DevOps.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is there a separate free cost assessment?

Cost and cloud health questions are included in the Free AWS Assessment. If the decision needs quantified written analysis, we scope that work separately through Professional Services.

Do you guarantee a savings amount?

No. We quantify specific opportunities from the available AWS evidence and state the assumptions behind them. Actual results depend on usage, implementation, pricing, and business decisions.

Can you implement the recommendations?

Yes. A defined remediation outcome can become a Professional Services project. An ongoing optimization and platform backlog can move through Managed DevOps.

Bring the AWS cost question that needs an answer

Talk it through in the Free AWS Assessment, or ask us to scope a written review around the decision.

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