The AWS bill grows every month, no one can fully account for it, and cutting the wrong thing risks breaking production.
A prioritized, dollar-quantified plan that lowers your AWS spend — right-sizing, waste removal, and commitment strategy — without sacrificing reliability.
What it is
A Cloud Cost Optimization Assessment is a fixed-scope engagement that answers a question every growing team eventually asks: where is our AWS money actually going — and how much can we safely cut?
We analyze your cost and usage data, hunt down waste, and model the commitment strategies AWS offers, then hand you a plan where every recommended change comes with an estimated dollar impact. The goal is durable savings that don’t quietly re-inflate next quarter — not a one-time cleanup.
How it works
- Analyze — read-only access to your billing and usage data, broken down by service, account, and environment so the real cost drivers are visible.
- Identify — idle instances, orphaned volumes and snapshots, over-provisioned resources, expensive data transfer, and license charges that may qualify for cheaper options.
- Model & plan — right-sizing recommendations plus Savings Plans and Reserved Instance modeling, packaged as a prioritized roadmap ranked by savings versus effort and risk.
Where the savings usually hide
- Waste — resources nobody turned off: idle instances, unattached volumes, old snapshots, forgotten environments.
- Right-sizing — instances and databases provisioned for peak that runs at a fraction of capacity.
- Commitments — steady-state usage still billed on demand that Savings Plans or Reserved Instances would discount.
- Data & storage — cross-AZ and egress transfer costs, and storage sitting in the wrong tier.
Who it’s for
Teams whose AWS bill has outgrown their understanding of it — often after a growth spurt, a migration, or a stretch of moving fast. If you’re nervous about cutting because you might break something, this assessment removes the guesswork.
AkolagTech is an AI, cloud, and automation engineering partner. We treat cost as an engineering problem, not a spreadsheet exercise — every recommendation is safe to act on. Pairs well with an AWS Architecture Review when the spend and the design both need attention.