AWS Cost Optimization Services

Savings potential depends on how your environment was built and managed. Estates migrated quickly without rightsizing, with no commitment strategy or with uncontrolled non-production environments usually offer the most opportunity. We avoid promising percentages before reviewing your data. After the assessment, you receive a savings register listing each opportunity with estimated monthly value, effort and risk, so you can prioritize.

For the assessment we need read-only access to billing and cost data, typically through an IAM role in the management account with Cost Explorer, Cost Optimization Hub and billing read permissions, plus read access to member accounts for resource analysis. We do not change resources during assessment. Implementation changes are agreed in advance and made either by our engineers with scoped access or by your team.

Compute Savings Plans offer flexibility across EC2 instance families, regions, Fargate and Lambda, while EC2 Instance Savings Plans offer deeper discounts for a specific family and region. Reserved Instances remain relevant for services such as Amazon RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch Service and Redshift. We analyze usage and recommend a layered approach that balances discount depth against flexibility.

Not when done carefully. We base rightsizing on utilization over representative periods, including peaks, test changes in non-production environments first and monitor after each change. Moves to Graviton are preceded by compatibility and performance testing. Many optimizations, such as deleting unattached volumes or moving to gp3, have no performance impact or improve it.

We build guardrails: tag policies and service control policies, budgets with alerts to owners, Cost Anomaly Detection, dashboards that show each team its own spend, and regular reviews. We also address architecture patterns that cause recurring waste, and provide reference templates so new workloads start with cost-efficient defaults such as autoscaling, gp3 volumes and appropriate instance families.

We typically start with a fixed-scope assessment, followed by an implementation phase for agreed savings, and optionally an ongoing FinOps service with monthly reviews. Effort depends on the number of accounts, variety of services and how many changes we implement ourselves. We agree scope and pricing upfront, and report savings achieved against the baseline so results are transparent.