AWS Cost Optimisation Review

What this solution is

Your AWS bill keeps climbing, but nobody can say exactly why — and cutting the wrong thing could take down production. The AWS Cost Optimisation Review finds the waste and the real cost drivers, then hands you savings you can act on safely, with backups, monitoring, and capacity left intact.

We separate low-risk cleanup from architectural decisions, so you reduce spend methodically instead of gambling with uptime.

When you need this

This solution fits when:

• AWS spend has climbed without a clear explanation
• Dev, staging, and production costs are hard to separate
• Resources are missing consistent tags or ownership
• Compute, database, storage, and log retention haven't been reviewed recently
• Leadership wants savings, but engineering wants to avoid reliability risk
• You need a repeatable cost review process, not a one-off cleanup

What we do

• Review AWS billing, usage, regions, accounts, services, and major cost categories
• Identify unused, idle, stale, oversized, or poorly attributed resources
• Assess log retention, snapshots, storage lifecycle, compute sizing, and database use
• Review tagging and environment ownership
• Separate immediate cleanup from architecture changes that need testing
• Build an optimisation roadmap that preserves production resilience

Deliverables

• AWS cost review report
• Prioritised savings register with estimated confidence and implementation risk
• Resource tagging and ownership recommendations
• Retention and lifecycle policy recommendations
• Right-sizing recommendations for compute and database, backed by utilisation data
• Optional implementation plan for approved savings actions

Duration

What you walk away with

• A clear view of which services and environments drive your AWS spend
• Practical savings grouped by risk and effort
• Better resource ownership through tagging and review processes
• Lower cloud waste — without removing the controls that protect uptime and recovery

Related services

Related reading

• DevOps for SaaS platforms: designing infrastructure that doesn't break at scale
• The real cost of downtime: why infrastructure strategy matters
• Signs your infrastructure isn't ready for growth