AWS Cost Optimization Consultant

AWS cost optimization on a pay-for-savings model. Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, NAT gateway, data transfer. 30-90% reduction in 30-60 days. No upfront fee.

How AWS cost optimization works

AWS cost optimization attacks the seven lines that swell every AWS bill: over-provisioned EC2 and RDS, untiered S3 storage, runaway data-transfer (cross-AZ, NAT gateway, internet egress), unsampled CloudWatch logs, Lambda invocation loops, idle Fargate tasks, and unused Reserved Instances or Savings Plans. A focused engagement audits all seven in week one, implements the cuts in weeks two through six, and verifies the reduction on the monthly invoice.

AWS services covered

• EC2 rightsizing including ARM (Graviton) migration where applicable.
• Lambda memory tuning, ARM, payload reduction, circuit breakers.
• S3 Intelligent-Tiering, Glacier transitions, expired versions, multipart cleanup.
• RDS rightsizing, IOPS analysis, reserved instances, read-replica review.
• NAT gateway: VPC endpoints, gateway endpoints, regional vs interface choice.
• Data transfer: cross-AZ, cross-region, internet egress that should be CloudFront.
• Fargate / EKS rightsizing, Spot, Karpenter, capacity provider mix.
• CloudWatch log retention, log sampling, metric cardinality audit.
• Reservations and Savings Plans break-even modelling.

Three steps to cut your AWS bill

Week 1 — free AWS audit. Read-only access to Cost Explorer and billing console, 60-minute kickoff, ranked written report.

Weeks 2-6 — implementation. Pull-request engineering. Rightsizing, lifecycle policies, reservations, NAT gateway alternatives, observability sampling.

Months 2-3 — verified savings. Side-by-side AWS billing dashboards comparing pre- and post-engagement spend. Pay only after reduction lands on invoice.

Verified AWS cost reductions

• 78% AWS infrastructure rightsizing in 4 weeks — Lambda -96.5%, S3 -84.5%, RDS rightsized.
• 97.7% Lambda invocation reduction in 1 week — circuit breakers fixed runaway error handling.
• 84.5% S3 cost cut in 2 weeks — Intelligent-Tiering, Glacier, abandoned upload cleanup.
• 40% AWS data-transfer reduction in 3 weeks — VPC endpoints replacing NAT gateway, multi-AZ refactor.

Frequently asked questions

How much can you cut my AWS bill?

30-90% depending on infrastructure maturity. Greenfield AWS shops without cost discipline see the largest cuts. Mature AWS-native teams with existing FinOps see 15-30%. The free audit gives the realistic number before commitment.

Which AWS services do you cover?

EC2, Lambda, Fargate, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, NAT Gateway, Data Transfer, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, Reserved Instances and Compute Savings Plans. Most engagements cover 5-8 services in parallel.

Do you sign AWS reservations on our behalf?

No. I model the break-even and recommend the term and scope. Your team signs the commitment from your own AWS account. I never have purchase authority.

What if you cannot reduce my AWS bill?

You keep the written audit report and pay nothing. Pay-for-savings means the fee is a fraction of the reduction produced. Zero reduction equals zero fee.

Do I need to be AWS-only?

No. Most engagements span AWS plus GCP, Azure, BigQuery, Datadog, MongoDB and Cloudflare. AWS is usually the largest line but waste hides in the boundaries between clouds too.