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Cutting AWS spend by 50% -
$200K saved every year

Years without scale-downs, cleanup, or a cost audit left the company paying for infrastructure it no longer needed. One month of audit, cleanup, and right-sizing cut the bill in half - with zero downtime.

AWSCost OptimizationZero Downtime
Technologies
AWSEC2RDSS3TerraformSavings Plans
50%
AWS cost reduction
$5K+
a month saved by fixing one S3 bucket
1
month from audit to result
0
minutes of downtime
The challenge

Revenue fell. The bill didn't.

Our client had been a high-revenue business. Then it lost market share: revenue dropped, and the company had to run leaner. Their AWS bill didn't follow - it kept growing, month after month.

Nothing had been scaled down in years. No cleanup, no cost audit, and no owner for the number. To everyone inside, the bill looked like normal cloud costs - while it quietly drained money the company needed for growth.

What we did

Audit first. Quick wins next. Then the deep cuts.

We started with a full audit of the cloud infrastructure, mapping every service: what was running, what it was for, whether anyone still used it, and whether it was over-provisioned for the load it actually served.

Audited the full cloud infrastructure - what ran, what it cost, and what was actually used
Cleaned up the quick wins first, like never-expiring versioned S3 backups - over $5,000 a month from that fix alone
Removed services that were no longer used
Right-sized over-provisioned instances to match real usage
Moved steady workloads to Savings Plans
Migrated databases out of extended support, which doubles the cost of running a database - cutting database costs by 50%

The quick wins came first. One S3 bucket was storing versioned backups that never expired, so the bill grew every month - fixing that one bucket saved over $5,000 a month. Then came the structural work: unused services, oversized instances, and databases running on extended support. Every change shipped through Terraform, in small reviewed steps.

The result

Half the bill in a month. Zero downtime.

Within one month, the AWS bill was down 50% - over $200K a year back in the budget - without a minute of downtime. That money now funds growth instead.

"We expected up to 20% cost reduction, we got half our AWS bill back - and a platform we finally understand."

VP of Engineering
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  1. 01A 30-minute intro call — your stack, your goals, no pitch deck.
  2. 02Read-only access (NDA first if you prefer) and about a week of analysis.
  3. 03A written report of findings and what we would fix first — yours to keep, either way.