Cost Optimization

Across Azure · AWS · VMware / VCD · on-prem

Who it's for

Organizations whose infrastructure bill has been quietly growing, with nobody quite sure where the growth is coming from. Teams who already know the bill is too high but can't risk breaking things while fixing it — or where every cost reduction attempt feels risky because no one fully trusts what's still in use.

What you actually get

• Real spend breakdown Actual spend by system, service, and owner — including hidden costs like data transfer, idle capacity, duplicated environments, and licenses nobody tracks. No vague category totals.
• Waste identification Idle resources, forgotten environments, oversized instances, unused licenses — including things that still look "in use" but aren't delivering any value.
• Right-sizing recommendations Replace worst-case sizing from years ago with actual usage patterns — peak, p95, and baseline, not a single scary number from the day it was provisioned.
• Safe reduction plan Prioritized list of cuts with risk level, effort, and expected savings for each. Reversible changes first, irreversible ones last.
• Ongoing guardrails Basic controls so the savings don't disappear in the next quarter. Budgets, tagging discipline, idle-detection — the parts that prevent the bill from growing back.
• Written findings A report your finance and engineering teams can both read: what, where, how much, and what breaks if you cut it.

Typical findings

Every bill is different, but these show up almost every time. Most of them are invisible from the cloud portal's default views.

• Zombie infrastructure Still running, still billing, still "owned" by someone — but nothing on it is actually being used anymore.
• Hidden data transfer costs Cross-region, cross-AZ, egress to the internet, chatty services talking over the wrong path — usually one of the biggest surprises on the bill.
• Oversized by default SKUs and instance sizes picked for the worst-case scenario two years ago, never revisited, using 8% of what they're billed for.
• Duplicated environments Forgotten dev or staging copies, old pilots that never got torn down, backup environments nobody fails over to.
• Licensing mismatches Per-core licenses on oversized hosts, unused seats, features you're paying for but don't use, BYOL opportunities left on the table.

What usually comes out of this

What you can reasonably expect from a full review:

• 15–40% of spend identified as waste or avoidable Split between safe immediate cuts and changes that need a bit of planning first.
• A ranked list you can actually execute Each item with expected savings, effort, and what could go wrong if you cut it. No "50-page report, call us for details."
• Clear spend ownership Who owns each cost center, which team the bill belongs to, and who should be seeing it every month.
• Fewer surprises on next month's invoice The common cost spikes — egress, snapshot sprawl, forgotten PaaS — have names and owners attached.
• Guardrails that survive the engagement Budget alerts, tagging conventions, idle-detection policies — so the savings don't quietly erode over the next two quarters.