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Cloud cost optimisation

Your cloud bill traced to the resources behind it, with waste removed and spending kept visible.

Cloud bills grow quietly: test servers left running, oversized databases, storage nobody reads and data transfer nobody planned. We tag and trace every charge to a team and purpose, fix the waste we can remove safely, and set up budgets and alerts. You end up with a bill you can explain and a way to keep it under control.

What you get

  • A cost breakdown by service, environment, team and application
  • A tagging scheme applied to resources so every charge has an owner
  • A list of idle, orphaned and oversized resources, with the change for each
  • Reserved capacity or savings plan recommendations with break-even points
  • Storage lifecycle rules moving old data to cheaper tiers or deleting it
  • Budgets, anomaly alerts and a monthly cost report for each team

How it works

  1. 01

    Read the bill

    We export billing data and usage metrics and connect each line item to the resource and workload that caused it.

  2. 02

    Find waste

    Idle machines, unattached disks, oversized instances, heavy data transfer and forgotten environments are listed.

  3. 03

    Fix safely

    Changes are applied in agreed batches, starting outside production, with performance checked after each one.

  4. 04

    Keep it down

    Tagging rules, budgets and alerts are set up so new waste is spotted within days, not at the next invoice.

Scope it now.

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Which cloud do you use?
Roughly what is the monthly bill?
Do you use tags to track costs?
Who manages the cloud today?

Questions

Will cutting costs slow our applications down?

Not if it is done with measurements. Every right-sizing change is based on actual CPU, memory and storage usage over a representative period, applied first outside production, and reverted if response times or error rates move.

Should we buy reserved capacity or savings plans?

Only for the steady base load you are confident will run for the full term. We calculate that base from your usage history and show the break-even point, so you commit where it pays off and stay flexible elsewhere.

How much will we save?

It depends entirely on how your environment has grown, so we do not promise a figure up front. The first review lists each saving opportunity with its estimated monthly value, and you decide which changes to make.

Related services

Cloud setupA new cloud environment set up securely, with accounts, networks, access and costs organised from the start.Managed hostingYour applications hosted and looked after in cloud accounts you own, with patching, backups and costs handled.Cloud migrationYour systems moved to the cloud in planned stages, with a tested way back at every step.Monitoring and SREMonitoring, alerts and reliability practices that tell you about problems before your users do.

Software it applies to

Cloud platformsWell-organised cloud accounts, networks and guardrails, defined as code, that your teams can build on safely.Kubernetes platformsProduction-ready Kubernetes clusters and the paved paths that let your teams deploy to them safely.Observability platformsMetrics, logs and traces in one place, with alerts that tell your team what broke and where to look.

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