Cloud Cost Optimization

Cloud cost work fails when it produces a list of recommendations nobody owns. It works when each change has a name against it and a date.

What we look at

• Tagging and attribution — usually the first gap, and the one that blocks everything else
• Compute shape: instance families, commitment coverage, idle and over-provisioned capacity
• Storage tiering and lifecycle, plus the snapshots everyone forgets
• Data transfer, the line item that is hardest to read and often surprisingly large
• Non-production environments, which frequently run at production scale overnight

What you get

Spend attributed to teams and services, a change list split into what can be done this week and what needs an architecture decision, and guardrails — budgets, alerts, and policy — so that the savings do not quietly reverse over two quarters.

On incentives

We do not take a percentage of savings. That model rewards deferring the structural fixes in favour of quick reversible ones, and the incentive should not sit against your long-term interest.