The AWS bill jumped, and the board wants an answer
Somebody has to explain the number by the next meeting — what drove it, what's waste, and what comes out without breaking production. That answer lives in your Cost & Usage Report, and extracting it takes days, not a quarter-long FinOps program.
A ranked answer, not a dashboard subscription
- A written explanation of what actually drove the bill — suitable for a board or budget owner, in plain English
- The ranked savings backlog: every item with its own dollar estimate, effort, risk, and first step — ordered by savings per unit of effort
- Commitment strategy (Savings Plans / Reserved) sized to your post-cleanup floor — never bought before the cleanup, which is how commitments go wrong
- A 60-minute walkthrough, and the backlog re-scored at a 90-day check-in
- Your team can execute the whole backlog without us — remediation help exists as separate fixed-scope work if you want it, never as an obligation
Your time investment
One 30-minute kickoff and a read-only role you create from our snippet. The walkthrough is the only other meeting. Under two hours of your team's calendar, total.
Industry surveys (Flexera State of the Cloud) put self-estimated cloud waste at roughly a quarter to a third of spend — your CUR will tell us what's true for you, item by item.
Senior eyes, fixed price, no meter running
The review is done personally by a senior AWS engineer — six active certifications, a decade of cloud infrastructure — not a junior analyst running a script. The price is fixed before work starts, published rates and terms live at /pricing/, and our access model is documented at /trust/. If your bill is too small for the fee to make sense, we'll say so on the call and point you at the three things to check yourself.
Frequently asked questions
How fast do we see actual savings, not just identified savings?
The backlog separates them honestly: the top items are usually deletable waste (idle capacity, orphaned storage) your team can action the same week, while commitment purchases and re-architecture land over following weeks. Every item states its own timeline — no blended promise.
Is this hourly? What if it takes longer?
Fixed price, confirmed in the scoping call based on account count and spend. If it takes us longer than expected, that is our problem, not your invoice — there are no change orders, contractually.
Will you need write access to anything?
No. The entire review runs on read-only access to the Cost & Usage Report, Cost Explorer, and CloudWatch metrics. You create the role from a snippet we provide; revoking it is one action on your side.
What if the findings are smaller than the fee?
The scoping call includes a frank look at your spend level first — if the likely backlog will not clear several multiples of the fee, we will tell you before you commit, and point you to the checks worth doing in-house.
Have the answer before the next board meeting
Thirty minutes to scope it, a written fixed price within 24 hours, findings in days.
Book the Scoping Call