What You Get
Week 1: Assessment & Quick Wins
Day 1-2: Cost Analysis
- Deep dive into current cloud spending
- Identify top cost drivers
- Benchmark against similar companies
- Low-hanging fruit inventory
Day 3-5: Immediate Actions
- Delete zombie resources: Unused EC2 instances, volumes, snapshots
- Right-size instances: Match compute to actual usage
- Stop non-prod resources: Auto-shutdown dev/staging overnight
- Storage optimization: Archive cold data to cheaper tiers
- ELB/Load balancer cleanup: Delete unused load balancers
Expected savings from Week 1: 10-20%
Week 2: Optimization & Automation
Day 6-8: Commitments & Discounts
- Reserved Instances: 1-year commitments for steady workloads
- Savings Plans: Compute and EC2 savings plans
- Spot instances: For batch jobs and non-critical workloads
- Volume discounts: Consolidate to fewer accounts
Day 9-10: Architectural Improvements
- Auto-scaling: Scale down during off-hours
- Serverless migration: Move small workloads to Lambda
- Database right-sizing: RDS instance optimization
- Data transfer optimization: Reduce cross-AZ/region costs
Expected savings from Week 2: 20-30% additional
Deliverables
- Comprehensive cost assessment report
- List of cost-saving opportunities (prioritized)
- Implementation of all quick wins
- Reserved Instance and Savings Plan recommendations
- Cost allocation and tagging strategy
- FinOps dashboard (CloudWatch or third-party)
- Budget alerts and anomaly detection
- Ongoing cost monitoring automation
- 14 days post-engagement support
ROI Example
Scenario: $50K/month AWS bill ($600K/year)
| Action | Savings | When |
|---|---|---|
| Delete zombies | $5K/month | Day 3 |
| Right-size compute | $8K/month | Day 4 |
| Stop non-prod 16hrs/day | $4K/month | Day 5 |
| Reserved Instances | $10K/month | Day 7 |
| Auto-scaling | $3K/month | Day 9 |
| Total Savings | $30K/month | 60% reduction |
Annual savings: $360K
Our fee: $15K
Your ROI: 24x in year one
The engagement pays for itself in less than 2 weeks!
What We Focus On
High-impact, low-effort optimizations:
✓ Unused resources (EC2, EBS, snapshots, AMIs)
✓ Over-provisioned instances (CPU < 20% utilization)
✓ Non-production resource schedules
✓ Storage tiering (S3, EBS volume types)
✓ Reserved Instance opportunities
✓ Savings Plans recommendations
✓ Spot instance candidates
✓ Load balancer consolidation
✓ Idle RDS instances
✓ NAT Gateway optimization
What we DON’T do in this package:
❌ Deep architectural refactoring
❌ Application code changes
❌ Multi-month optimization programs
❌ FinOps organizational transformation
(For deeper work, see our Cloud Cost Optimization service)
Ideal For
- Companies with cloud bills > $20K/month
- Organizations under immediate cost pressure (CFO mandate)
- Teams that need fast ROI
- Companies with no cost optimization history
- Startups extending runway
Prerequisites
- AWS/Azure/GCP account access (read + limited write)
- Billing data for past 3-6 months
- Stakeholder availability for quick decisions
- Approval authority for resource changes
Timeline
2 weeks from kick-off to completion
- Week 1: Assessment + quick wins (immediate savings)
- Week 2: Commitments + automation (long-term savings)
Pricing
$15,000 fixed price
Alternative: Success-based pricing available
Pay 20% of first-year verified savings (typical fee: $25K-$40K for 40-60% reductions)
What Happens After?
- Your cloud bill is 30-50% lower
- Cost monitoring and alerts in place
- You keep optimizing with our runbooks
- 14 days of support included
- Optional: Quarterly cost reviews
Guarantees
We guarantee at least 20% cost reduction or your money back.
(Excludes accounts already heavily optimized or with < $20K/month spend)
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