AWS Cost
Optimization

Overcome the overwhelm of Amazon Web Services

We guide you through the details of your Amazon Web Services so you can deeply understand what's available to you, what you're using, and how to maximize the value you pay for.

Why you might want to audit your AWS bill:

  • AWS bills are notoriously complex and difficult to navigate.
  • Several seemingly small cost saving changes can quickly add up to a 10%, or more, reduction in monthly operating costs.
  • Run regular updates to the WordPress Platform, your site's theme and any active plugins.
  • We have experience with all of the AWS Services needed to make a WordPress site run.

We perform the following activities:

  • Explain your AWS bill and explain where your money is being spent and why.
  • Map out your business needs and evaluate your bill for any resources that you are not using.
  • Make recommendations on how to right size your EC2 instances and other resources to prevent overpaying.
  • We work with you to make the necessary changes for optimization, or we can do them for you.
  • Hourly troubleshooting or configuration.
  • Leverage licensing savings with reserved instances

Our AWS Cost Optimizations engagements are typically billed hourly as the complexity of your AWS services will dictate how much time is necessary to fully assess your setup. Schedule your Cost Optimization session now.

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Based on your needs and priorities, we can also provide you with project-based engagements such as a Productivity Software Assessment, WordPress Development or the broader ongoing retainer services of a Fractional CTO.

Clients we've helped, problems we've solved

Amazon Webservice Audits

Our client approached us about reducing their AWS bill from $300-350 a month. Eric reviewed all resources and why they were being used. He was rapidly able to identify approximately $90 in monthly savings.

  • Over 2 years worth of daily backups were identified and could be safely deleted from S3.
  • Development EC2 instances were running when not in use.
  • We web optimized images, turned on browser caching, and configured Gzip to lower CloudFront and bandwidth charges.
  • They rescinded an Amazon Developer Support plan that they did not know was there and were not using.

We helped our client significantly reduce their bill as a result of the audit and believe that with some additional effort to restructure their data organization, server costs could be minimized as well.