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Cloud cost optimisation
Cloud bills grow quietly. We go through what you are actually paying for, switch off what nobody uses, and right size the rest.£1,500 to £6,000
What cloud cost optimisation actually means
Cloud cost optimisation is going through what you actually pay for in the cloud and cutting the waste, which on most bills is a great deal more than owners expect. Cloud is billed by the hour and by the gigabyte, and it is designed to make spending easy, so bills tend to grow quietly through a hundred small decisions that nobody ever revisits. Optimisation is the revisit: the deliberate, line-by-line look almost nobody does.
The waste falls into predictable shapes. There are orphaned resources, things spun up for a project and never switched off, still billing every hour years later. There are oversized instances, servers paying for capacity they never touch because someone picked a big one to be safe. There are duplicate and unused licences, and there is the option, almost never taken, of committing to what you genuinely use in return for a large discount.
We review the whole of your AWS, Azure or Microsoft 365 spend, find all of that, and model the savings before changing anything. Then we right-size and switch off what nobody uses, set things up so the spend stays visible rather than creeping back, and show you the arithmetic rather than asking you to take the saving on faith. It is unglamorous work that very often pays for itself several times over.
How it helps your business
The obvious help is money straight back to the bottom line. It is common to find a fifth, a third, sometimes more than half of a cloud bill going on things that deliver nothing, and cutting that is pure margin. Unlike most cost-saving, it usually costs the business nothing in capability, because you are removing waste rather than trimming something you actually use.
The subtler help is visibility and control. A bill that nobody understands is a bill that only goes one way, and the real problem with cloud spend is not any single line, it is that it drifts upward invisibly. Setting it up so you can see what is costing what, and flagging when it moves, turns cloud from a number you dread on the statement into something you actually manage.
And it buys the discounts you are probably leaving on the table. The cloud providers offer substantial savings for committing to capacity you are going to use anyway, but the maths is fiddly and the risk of over-committing is real, so most businesses never touch it. Modelling it properly, on your actual usage, captures those savings safely, which is money that was there for the taking all along.
What is included
- A full review of AWS, Azure or Microsoft 365 spend, licence by licence
- Orphaned resources, oversized instances and duplicate licences identified
- Reserved capacity and commitment options modelled before you commit
- Often pays for itself, and we show you the arithmetic rather than asking you to trust it
Real examples
Illustrative cases. Tap one to see what happened and what could have been done.
The half a bill that did nothing
The case
A media company's cloud bill had climbed past a comfortable number with no clear reason. Line by line it turned out to hold test environments left running for two years, several oversized servers, and storage full of data nobody had touched since a project ended, all billing every hour because nobody had revisited it.
What could have been done
A deliberate, line-by-line review switches off and right-sizes that waste, cutting the bill by more than half for identical performance, with alerts set so it cannot creep back unnoticed. The saving is pure margin because it removes waste, not capability.
The discount nobody had claimed
The case
A software firm was paying full on-demand rates for servers that ran twenty-four hours a day, every day, and had never looked at committing to the capacity it clearly used month after month.
What could have been done
Modelling the real, steady usage and moving the predictable part onto reserved capacity cuts that portion of the bill by around forty percent, for exactly the same machines doing exactly the same work. The saving had been sitting there unclaimed the entire time.
Ready to sort cloud cost optimisation?
Tell us what is going wrong and we will come back with a fixed price in writing, after a short scoping call. No obligation, and no jargon.
Common questions about cloud cost optimisation
How much does cloud cost optimisation cost?
£1,500 to £6,000. We agree the exact number before any work starts, so there are no open ended day rates.
How long does cloud cost optimisation take?
Most work of this kind is live within three to four weeks. We give you a date before we begin and tell you early if anything threatens it.
Do you work outside Edinburgh?
Yes. We are based in Edinburgh and work on site across the Lothians, Fife and Glasgow, and remotely across the United Kingdom.
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Same service, same prices, wherever you are. On site across central Scotland and remotely across the rest of the UK.
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