AWS cost optimization you can pay for upfront or out of the savings
Two ways to pay. A fixed-fee review where you keep 100% of the savings, or no upfront cost and a share of what we actually save you.
Overview
AWS cost optimization for a SaaS company is rarely about one big fix. The bill grows in small pieces: a staging environment nobody turned off, instances sized for a launch that never needed them, gp2 volumes, NAT gateway traffic, logs kept forever, and Savings Plans bought for last year's workload. We find each piece, price it in dollars a month and tell you what it takes to remove it without hurting performance.
You choose how to pay. With the fixed fee you get the ranked list of savings and the exact changes, and every dollar saved stays with you. With the share-of-savings option there is nothing to pay up front: we agree a baseline in writing, implement the changes you approve, and invoice a share of the verified monthly saving for 6 months. After that, all of it is yours.
Who it is for
SaaS teams with rising bills
Product companies whose AWS spend grows faster than revenue and nobody has had time to look at why.
Founders watching runway
Teams where a 20 to 30% lower AWS bill is a month or more of runway, and the work needs to pay for itself.
Teams after rapid growth
Companies that scaled fast, bought capacity in a hurry and now carry resources and commitments that no longer fit.
What is included
The final scope is agreed in your proposal. These are the areas the service typically covers.
Bill and usage analysis
Every account and region broken down by service, environment and team, so you can see where each dollar goes.
Rightsizing
EC2, RDS, ElastiCache and container workloads compared with real CPU, memory and IO use, then resized with headroom.
Idle and forgotten resources
Unattached volumes, old snapshots, idle load balancers, unused Elastic IPs and environments nobody uses any more.
Storage and data transfer
S3 lifecycle rules, gp2 to gp3, log retention, NAT gateway and cross-AZ traffic, which often hide the surprises.
Savings Plans and RIs
Commitment coverage checked against usage, so you commit only to what you will run, with term and payment options compared.
Budgets and alerts
Tagging, cost allocation, budgets and anomaly alerts so the bill does not creep back once the work is done.
Pricing
Published prices in US dollars, excluding VAT where it applies. Every option is also on the pricing page.
AWS Cost Review, fixed fee
$1,500fixed fee
You pay a fixed fee, get a ranked list of savings with the exact changes, and keep 100% of what you save.
- Bill and usage analysis across every account and region
- Rightsizing, idle resources, storage tiers and data transfer
- Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage checked against real usage
- Each saving priced in dollars a month, with effort and risk
- Your team implements, or we do it from plan hours
AWS Cost Reduction, share of savings
20%of verified savings for 6 months
Nothing up front. We find the savings and make the changes. You pay a share of what you actually save, for a limited period.
- Same review as the fixed-fee option
- We implement every change you approve
- Baseline agreed in writing before we touch anything
- Savings measured monthly in AWS Cost Explorer, shared with you
- No savings, no fee
| Fixed fee | Share of savings | |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | $1,500 | Nothing |
| Who makes the changes | Your team, or us from plan hours | We do, after your approval |
| What you pay | The fixed fee only | 20% of the verified monthly saving for 6 months |
| If little is found | Free if annual savings are under 3x the fee | No savings, no fee |
| AWS spend | Up to $30,000 a month | From $8,000 a month |
| Fee on the example below | $1,500 | $6,000 |
| You keep in the first year | $58,500 | $54,000 |
Example: a $20,000 monthly AWS bill reduced by 25% saves $5,000 a month, $60,000 a year. The percentage is only an example, not a promise; we price the real saving after the review. For the share option, the baseline is your average bill over the last three months, adjusted for usage growth and agreed in writing.
How it works
Share the bill
Tell us your monthly AWS spend and grant a read-only billing role. For the savings share, we agree the baseline in writing.
Find the savings
We analyze usage and price each saving in dollars a month, with the effort and the risk it carries.
Make the changes
Your team implements from our list, or we implement the changes you approve, one at a time and reversible.
Measure the result
Savings are tracked monthly in AWS Cost Explorer against the baseline, and shared with you in a short report.
What you get
Technologies and platforms we typically work with on this service:
A lower AWS bill, with each saving traced to a specific change
Commitments that match the workload you actually run
Cost allocation and alerts that catch the next increase early
No reduction in performance or reliability, checked change by change
Questions about AWS Cost Optimization
How does AWS cost optimization with a share of savings work?
Before any change, we agree a baseline in writing: your average monthly bill over the last three months, adjusted for growth in usage. We then implement the savings you approve. Each month we compare the bill with the baseline in AWS Cost Explorer and invoice 20% of the verified saving, for 6 months. If there is no saving, there is no invoice. After the period ends, you keep the full saving.
Which option is cheaper, the fixed fee or the share of savings?
The fixed fee is cheaper if your team has time to implement the changes, because you keep every dollar saved. The share of savings costs more over the 6 months but needs no upfront budget and no engineering time from you, since we do the work. The comparison table on this page shows both options on the same example bill.
How much can we reduce our AWS bill?
It depends on how the account has been run. Accounts that have never been reviewed usually have obvious waste in idle resources, oversized databases, storage tiers and data transfer, while well-managed accounts have less. We do not promise a percentage before seeing the data. The fixed-fee review has a guarantee instead: if we do not find annual savings worth at least 3 times the fee, you do not pay.
Will cutting costs affect performance?
Every recommendation lists its risk, and we change one thing at a time so each change can be reversed. Removing idle resources carries almost no risk. Rightsizing busy databases or changing instance families needs load data and a rollback plan, so we flag those separately and schedule them with your team. Performance and error rates are checked after each change.
What access do you need?
For the review, a read-only IAM role with billing and usage permissions is enough, and nothing in your account changes. If you choose the share-of-savings option, we also need a role that can modify the resources in scope. Changes go through your normal review process, ideally as Terraform pull requests, so your team sees and approves every one.
Is there a minimum AWS spend?
The fixed-fee review covers accounts spending up to $30,000 a month; above that we quote to size. The share-of-savings option starts at $8,000 a month in AWS spend, because below that the savings rarely justify the measurement work. If you spend less, the fixed-fee review or the DevOps assessment is the better fit.
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