AWS cost optimization
Where the waste is in an AWS bill, and what it's worth.
Finly finds the spend nobody decided on, ranks it by savings and risk, and applies the changes with an engineer approving each one. Start with a free, read-only audit and an exact figure.
A free 30-minute demo with an engineer. No commitment.
What would you save?
Set the sliders to your monthly spend.Ranges reflect results in production accounts, up to 40% in some. The free audit gives you an exact figure before you spend anything.
Where it hides
Six places we look first.
Cloud costs grow by default. Every service adds resources, every instance is sized for its busiest day, and the defaults favour the meter.
Over-provisioned compute
EC2, RDS and Kubernetes nodes sized for a launch-day peak. Rightsized on 30 days of p95 utilization, one resource group at a time, with a rollback.
Idle and orphaned resources
Unattached EBS volumes, stale snapshots, forgotten NAT gateways, load balancers with no targets, and staging environments running all weekend.
Commitments that no longer fit
Savings Plans and reserved capacity bought for what you planned to run. Re-matched to the measured floor, never to the peak.
Storage on the wrong tier
S3 without lifecycle rules, gp2 volumes that should be gp3, snapshots kept forever, and logs in hot storage nobody reads.
Data transfer and NAT
Cross-AZ chatter, NAT gateway processing, and egress that a VPC endpoint or a placement change would remove.
Kubernetes waste
Requests set far above usage, node groups that never scale down, and clusters duplicated per environment down to the instance type.
How it works
Read-only on day one. A number by day seven.
- Day 1
Connect, read-only
A cross-account role with ReadOnlyAccess, Cost Explorer, the Cost and Usage Report and CloudWatch metrics. Nothing to install.
- Day 7
Get the free audit
Every service line ranked by savings and blast radius, with the rollback for each change. Yours to keep.
- From week 2
Agents apply, engineers approve
On a fixed monthly plan, Finly makes the changes in small, reversible steps and reconciles the savings against your invoices monthly.
Questions
About AWS cost optimization.
What does an AWS cost optimization audit involve?
A read-only IAM role, seven days, and a line-by-line report: what to cut, what it saves, what it risks and how it would be rolled back. It is free and the report is yours whether or not we go further.
How much can we expect to save?
Up to 40% in production accounts we have run, with most of it in compute rightsizing, schedules and commitments. The calculator above gives a range; the audit gives your number.
Is this an AWS cost management tool or a service?
A service run by agents and engineers. Finly does the analysis and prepares the changes, a senior engineer approves each one, and the changes land as pull requests where Terraform owns the resource.
Do you handle EC2 cost optimization specifically?
Yes. Instance family and size changes, autoscaling bounds, schedules for non-production, Spot where the workload allows it, and commitments once the floor is known.
What about Kubernetes cost optimization?
Requests and limits corrected from real usage, node groups sized and scaled, and cluster autoscaling tuned, on EKS or self-managed clusters.
Does it work on Azure or GCP?
Finly supports AWS, Azure and GCP. Most engagements are on AWS, which is also where the deepest rightsizing and commitment work is.
See what's in your bill.
Schedule a free demo with an engineer and leave with the audit scoped. Bring last month's invoice for a first read on the call.
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