AWS bills reward attention and punish neglect: instances sized at launch, storage at default classes, and commitment coverage gaps all compound monthly. We eliminate the waste, optimize the commitment portfolio, and negotiate the enterprise discount from evidence.
This engagement is bought by organizations whose AWS spend outgrew its governance: instances sized at launch and never revisited, storage classes left at default while data went cold, non production environments running nights and weekends, and orphaned resources compounding monthly.
It fits FinOps teams that can see the waste but need the commercial layer worked too: Savings Plan and Reserved Instance coverage gaps paying on demand rates for steady workloads, and spend levels that justify a private pricing agreement nobody has negotiated.
AWS overspend concentrates in mechanisms that reward whoever pays attention:
The optimization pays twice: the waste comes out of the bill immediately, and the optimized run rate becomes the honest baseline for the commitment and discount negotiation.
The engagement follows the four workstreams of our AWS optimization statement of work. Consumption is baselined, waste is eliminated at the resource level, the commitment portfolio is optimized, and the enterprise discount is negotiated from the result.
| Deliverable | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Consumption baseline report | The verified run rate by service and workload with commitment coverage and contract position. |
| Optimization report | The prioritized waste register with savings per action and the optimized run rate. |
| Commitment portfolio report | The rebuilt Savings Plan and RI strategy with coverage targets and term structure. |
| Negotiation paper | The private pricing and discount targets, benchmarked, with the negotiation plan. |
| Governance framework | The decision rules that keep coverage, sizing, and spend discipline after the engagement. |
Cloud optimization advice often stops at a dashboard. This engagement ends at a negotiated commercial position: waste out, coverage rebuilt, and the enterprise discount priced against the optimized number rather than the bloated one.
The published record includes a Florida hospitality group saving 20 percent through compute optimization, a Dubai media group saving 15 percent, and EDP outcomes built on the same discipline.
We hold no AWS partner status and no resale margin, so right sizing recommendations and commitment structures serve your economics alone.
The engagement runs fixed price, all inclusive, or on contingency at 25 percent of the savings we deliver: you keep 75 percent, and if we save you nothing, you pay nothing.
AWS outcomes on the record.
A Florida hospitality group saved 20 percent through AWS compute optimization.
✓ Published case studyA Dubai media group saved 15 percent on its AWS commitment.
✓ Published case studyA hospitality group saved 15 percent on its AWS EDP through prepared negotiation.
✓ Published case studyA SaaS company cut its cloud run rate through systematic waste elimination.
Four workstreams: a consumption baseline, waste elimination at the resource level, commitment portfolio optimization across Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, and enterprise discount negotiation with governance.
In instances sized at launch, storage on default classes, always on non production environments, orphaned resources, and coverage gaps that leave steady workloads paying on demand rates.
A portfolio question, not a binary: the right mix depends on workload stability, flexibility needs, and term appetite. The portfolio report rebuilds the mix against your optimized run rate with laddered renewals.
Above a sustained spend level, AWS negotiates enterprise structures with committed discounts. If your spend qualifies and no agreement exists, you are donating margin. The negotiation workstream prices and pursues it.
Before, always. Commitments sized on wasteful consumption lock the waste in for the term. The engagement sequences waste out first, then sizes the portfolio and the discount on the honest number.
Recommendations are built from utilization data with headroom explicit, and specified with your platform team. The savings come from measured idle, not from hope.
Cost and usage reports, the commitment inventory, contracts and any private pricing terms, and tagging or account structure context.
Fixed price, all inclusive, covering all four workstreams, up to four advisory calls, and email support, or contingency at 25 percent of the savings we deliver: you keep 75 percent, and if we save you nothing, you pay nothing.
Waste out, coverage rebuilt, and the enterprise discount negotiated on the optimized number.
One letter a month. Negotiation moves, audit signals, and price book shifts.