Your AWS Bill Keeps Growing.
Nobody Can Say Exactly Why.
Someone set up the account years ago, a few projects came and went, and the monthly bill only moves in one direction. Nobody wants to delete anything in case it matters. We find where the money goes, remove what is truly unused, right-size what remains, and leave the account organized so the bill stays explainable.
Signs You Are Overpaying
A bill nobody reads
The invoice gets paid every month, but nobody can map the larger line items to a system the business uses.
Leftovers from old projects
Servers, databases, storage and snapshots from tests or retired projects are still running.
Sized for a busy day
Everything runs at peak capacity all day, every day, even when usage is low.
No tags, no owners
Resources have no labels saying what they are for or who is responsible for them.
Data transfer surprises
Charges for moving data between services or out to the internet are larger than expected and not understood.
The builder is gone
The person or contractor who set up the account is no longer around to explain it.
What It Actually Costs
How much of a bill is waste cannot be known without looking at the account, so we do not guess a percentage. What can be counted is the time spent babysitting infrastructure nobody understands. This illustration counts only that.
- 1 person
- doing the work
- 90 minutes
- each time
- 5 times a week
- across everyone
- $70 an hour
- loaded cost per person
About 8 hours a week, or $24,150 to $27,300 a year
How We Reduce It Safely
Cutting cost is easy. Cutting cost without breaking something the business depends on is the actual work.
Read the account, not just the bill
With read-only access, we map what is running, what it costs and what depends on it, and sort spending by system and owner.
Separate waste from risk
Resources are grouped into clearly unused, oversized and needed. Nothing is removed until you have confirmed what it is.
Change in reversible steps
Snapshots and backups come first. Right-sizing, schedules and storage tiers are changed one at a time, with a way back.
Leave it explainable
Tags, owners, budgets and cost alerts are set up, so the next surprise is caught in days instead of months.
Before and After
An illustration of a common workflow, not a client project.
A software company’s AWS account holds a production app, two abandoned test environments, full-size databases that run overnight with no users, and a year of daily snapshots nobody has restored.
The abandoned environments are backed up and removed after the team confirms them. Development databases stop outside working hours, old snapshots follow a retention rule, and every remaining resource has an owner tag and a budget alert.
Is Your Account Worth Reviewing?
Worth a review
- The monthly bill is large enough that waste matters
- Nobody can explain the biggest line items
- The account has been running for a year or more
- Several projects or people have used the account
Probably not worth it yet
- The bill is small and stable
- A team already reviews spending every month
- The account was set up recently for one well-defined app
- Nobody can grant access to review it
Typical Starting Points
Work is priced by scope, not by the hour. You get a written scope with a fixed price before anything starts, and larger builds are split into milestones. The ranges below show where engagements typically start.
See Starting Prices
| Engagement | When it fits | Investment |
|---|---|---|
| Fit Check | You want to know in 15 minutes whether anything here is worth pursuing. | Free |
| Quick Win Automation | One tightly bounded problem with a clear finish line. | From $1,500 |
| Core Automation or Integration Build | Workflows and system connections the business runs on, priced in a written scope. | From $5,000 |
| Operations Automation Partnership | After a build: monitoring, maintenance, vendor and API changes, and small improvements. | From $750 / month |
Hosting, domains, licenses, subscriptions, and processing fees stay in accounts you own and are billed to you directly by each vendor whenever practical. Where we must place an approved charge on your behalf, that amount is collected before we incur it.
After the Build
Every build ends with documentation and a handoff, so your team can run it. If you would rather not, a monthly partnership covers monitoring, vendor and API changes, and small improvements under its own written agreement.
See Partnership LevelsServices and Decisions Behind This
Before You Ask
- How much will we save?
- We do not promise a figure before looking at the account, because it depends entirely on what is running. After the review you get specific findings with estimated monthly amounts, and you decide which to act on.
- Could this break something?
- Every change is confirmed with you, made in small reversible steps and backed up first. Resources whose purpose is unclear are investigated, not deleted.
- What access do you need?
- Read-only access to start, created in your account and removable at any time. Changes use permissions scoped to the agreed work.
- Do you handle security or incident response?
- No. We work on architecture, cost and reliability. Security monitoring, incident response and security audits are outside our services.
- Can you keep costs in check afterward?
- You can maintain it yourselves using the tags, budgets and alerts we set up, or a monthly partnership can include regular cost reviews.
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Figures on this page are illustrations based on the stated inputs, not client results, and are not a promise of savings. We do not guarantee any particular business, time-saving or technical outcome. This page is a summary for convenience; our Terms of Service govern.
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What Is Your AWS Bill Paying For?
Tell us roughly what the account runs and how the bill has changed. We will tell you whether a review is likely to be worth it.