How a structured cost and infrastructure audit turned a sprawling AWS bill into a predictable, right-sized platform — with zero downtime.
Our client — a fast-growing platform company — had scaled quickly on AWS. Every team could provision what it needed, and for two years that speed was the right trade. But by the time they came to Lodemark, the monthly bill had doubled year-over-year while traffic hadn't.
Oversized instances, idle environments running around the clock, unattached storage, and duplicated data pipelines had quietly become a ~$400K annual spend — and nobody owned the number.
We started with our standard cost & infrastructure audit: mapping every resource against real utilization, tagging ownership, and separating load-bearing spend from waste.
Every change shipped through infrastructure-as-code, in small reviewed steps — production never blinked.
Six weeks after the audit, monthly AWS spend had fallen by 50% — roughly $200K a year back in the budget — while performance and reliability stayed flat or improved. The savings paid for the engagement in the first quarter.
"We expected a cost report. We got half our AWS bill back — and a platform we finally understand."
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