Cloud Cost Optimization
Spend less next year, not just next month.
Anyone can turn off idle instances. The savings that matter are the ones still there a year later, and those come from architecture rather than housekeeping.
The problem
Cloud bills grow quietly. Idle capacity, oversized instances, forgotten environments and storage nobody owns. Most cost exercises trim the obvious waste, then the bill climbs back within two quarters because nothing structural changed.
What we deliver
- Full spend analysis by account, service, environment and owner
- Rightsizing and idle-resource elimination with measured impact
- Commitment strategy — Reserved Instances and Savings Plans matched to real usage
- Architecture changes that remove cost permanently rather than deferring it
- Cost visibility, tagging discipline and budget alerting so regressions surface early
- annual AWS spend removed
- $200k+
- infrastructure cost reduction through re-architecture
- 15%
Numbers shown are from the founder’s prior roles, not SevenM engagements.
Technologies
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Athena
- CloudWatch
- Terraform
- Grafana
Questions
- Will cutting cost make things less reliable?
- It should not, and we will not trade availability for a smaller invoice without telling you exactly what the trade is. Most savings come from capacity nobody was using — that has no reliability cost at all.
- Do you charge a percentage of savings?
- No. We work on day rates. Percentage-of-savings billing rewards dramatic short-term cuts over durable architecture, and the incentives point the wrong way.
- How quickly do savings appear?
- Rightsizing and idle cleanup show up in the next billing cycle. Commitment and architecture changes take a quarter or more to land fully, and those are the ones that stay.