Cloud Cost Management

Cloud cost management for SaaS and AI companies. I bring AWS, GCP and Azure spend under control on a pay-for-savings model. 30-90% reduction in 30-60 days.

What cloud cost management actually means

Cloud cost management is the discipline of keeping AWS, GCP and Azure spend predictable, justified and aligned with revenue. Most companies treat it as a dashboard problem and buy a FinOps SaaS tool. The dashboards show waste; they don't remove it. Cloud cost management as an engagement flips the focus to implementation: rightsize the resources, fix the queries, retire the zombies, sample the logs, model the reservations, and document what you changed. On a pay-for-savings model there's no upfront fee. The fee is a fixed percentage of the reduction visible on your monthly invoice, capped at 12 months.

Every line that swells a multi-cloud bill

• Compute spend — EC2, Lambda, Fargate, Cloud Run, GKE, Azure VMs, Functions.
• Storage tiers — S3, GCS, Azure Blob lifecycle, retention, intelligent-tiering.
• Data transfer — cross-AZ, cross-region, egress to internet.
• Database spend — RDS, Aurora, BigQuery, MongoDB Atlas, Cloud SQL, Postgres, Redis.
• Observability — Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic sampling, retention, custom metric audit.
• CDN and edge — Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly, Vercel.
• Reservations + Savings Plans — AWS, Azure, GCP commitments with break-even modelling.
• Third-party SaaS — auth, search, email, analytics, scraping review and replace where math wins.
• Forecasting — monthly budget vs actual; alerting; cost-per-customer modelling.

Bring cloud spend under control in 30-60 days

Week 1 — audit and ranked report. Every line item categorised by waste type, effort and savings. CFO-friendly summary plus engineer-detailed appendix.

Weeks 2-6 — implementation. PR-based engineering. Your team merges every change. Runbooks left behind so the savings stay locked in after engagement ends.

Month 2-3 — verify and bill. Side-by-side billing dashboards. Pay-for-savings fee billed only on the verified monthly reduction visible on your invoice.

Frequently asked questions

How is cloud cost management different from FinOps?

FinOps is the practice. Cloud cost management is the outcome. FinOps SaaS tools surface recommendations on a dashboard; the implementation is still on your team. This engagement does the implementation — pull requests merged, runbooks documented, savings verified on the invoice.

Should we buy a FinOps SaaS instead?

If you already have a dedicated FinOps team, the SaaS adds ongoing visibility. If you don't, the SaaS is a recurring cost you have to staff and operate. Cut the big waste first with an engagement; buy the SaaS later for ongoing visibility, if at all.

How is pricing structured?

Pay-for-savings: a fixed percentage of the verified monthly bill reduction, capped at 12 months. No upfront fee. No retainer. Audit is free.

Is this for AWS only?

No. Cloud cost management is most effective when applied across every cloud and SaaS line — AWS, GCP, Azure, BigQuery, Datadog, MongoDB, Cloudflare. Most engagements span 2-3 platforms because waste hides in the boundaries.

Who is this for?

SaaS, AI and B2B companies running $5k+/month in cloud spend where the bill is growing faster than revenue. Best fit: CFOs and CTOs who want the bill cut once and kept down, not a recurring tool to operate.