A comprehensive cost audit across a multi-account AWS environment for a financial services firm. Not a recommendations deck: identified, agreed, and implemented.
A financial services firm's AWS footprint had grown account by account, team by team, year over year. Spend climbed with it. Nobody could say with confidence which resources were earning their keep, and in a regulated business, "we think we can save money" doesn't survive a budget review. The numbers had to be defensible.
A comprehensive cost audit across every account in the environment, mapping spend to actual usage patterns rather than to what teams assumed they needed.
Underutilized resources identified and categorized by savings impact, implementation effort, and risk, so the easy money came first and nothing risky was touched without agreement.
Compute rightsized to actual utilization, not provisioned habit. Reserved capacity restructured to match the workloads the firm actually runs.
Changes executed inside the existing environment within 60 days. No rip-and-replace, no platform migration, no consulting deck left to gather dust.
Monthly cloud spend down more than 30%, with the reductions identified and implemented within 60 days. The savings recur every month, which is the difference between a cost audit and a cost report.
This engagement is the pattern behind Skyform's $15K Health Check with a cost focus. Want to see exactly what that deliverable looks like? Review a sample Health Check deliverable.
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A Health Check answers that in two weeks for $15K: spend analysis, waste map, and a 30-60-90 reduction plan with effort estimates. If the savings aren't there, you'll know that too.