Cloud Cost Optimization Services

Independent cloud cost optimization consultant. Pay-for-savings model. AWS, GCP, Azure, BigQuery, Datadog, MongoDB. 30-90% reduction in 30-60 days. No upfront fee.

What cloud cost optimization services actually deliver

Cloud cost optimization services audit your AWS, GCP and Azure bills, identify waste across compute, storage, data-transfer and observability, then implement fixes — rightsizing, query rewrites, lifecycle policies, reservations and savings plans, log sampling, zombie resource cleanup. A focused engagement reduces your monthly cloud bill by 30-90% in 30-60 days. On a pay-for-savings model, the fee is a fixed percentage of the reduction your team sees on the invoice. No reduction, no fee.

What is included

• Full read-only audit of every billing dimension across AWS, GCP and Azure.
• Ranked written report — every cut sized by effort, savings and risk.
• Hands-on implementation. Pull requests, not slide decks.
• BigQuery, Datadog, MongoDB, Redis, Cloudflare and SaaS spend optimization.
• Reservations and savings plans analysis with break-even modelling.
• Runbooks plus documentation so the savings stay locked in after I leave.

What is not included

• A monthly retainer with no defined deliverable.
• A FinOps SaaS subscription you keep paying forever.
• A dashboard you have to staff and operate yourself.
• Generic best-practice slides with no implementation.

Pay-for-savings, not by the hour

My fee is a fixed percentage of the verified monthly reduction, capped at 12 months. Zero upfront fee. Zero monthly retainer. If the audit does not surface anything worth implementing, you keep the report and we walk away. If implementation delivers less than projected, you pay less. If no savings materialise, you pay zero.

Three engagement tiers

Tier 1 — Quick Audit. One week. Read-only access, kickoff call, written report. Free.

Tier 2 — Full Engagement. 30-60 days hands-on implementation. Pull-request workflow. Runbooks. Pay-for-savings.

Tier 3 — Ongoing Quarterly Tune-Up. After a successful Tier 2. Catches drift. Pay-for-savings, fresh 12-month cap per cycle.

Multi-cloud cost optimization platforms covered

AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, NAT, RDS, reservations). GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, BigQuery, Firestore). Azure (VMs, Functions, savings plans). Datadog, MongoDB Atlas, PostgreSQL, RDS, Redis, Cloudflare, Vercel.

Process — four phases, billed on outcome

Week 1 — audit. Week 1-2 — scope. Week 2-6 — implement. Month 2-3 — verify and bill.

Verified outcomes

• 78% AWS infrastructure rightsizing in 4 weeks (Lambda -96.5%, S3 -84.5%).
• 90% Datadog observability reduction in 2 weeks.
• 72% BigQuery analytics reduction in 3 weeks.
• 97.7% Lambda invocations in 1 week.
• 90%+ proxy/scraping spend in 6 weeks.
• 40% MongoDB performance in 3 weeks.

Why an independent consultant beats a FinOps SaaS

SaaS tools sell dashboards. They surface recommendations and leave your team to implement. Independent consultant does the implementation. SaaS tools are a per-seat or percentage-of-cloud-spend contract regardless of outcome. Pay-for-savings is zero upfront, paid only on outcome. SaaS lock-in grows over time. Consultant engagement ends with runbooks and no follow-on dependency.

Frequently asked questions

How is pricing structured?

Pay-for-savings, fixed percentage of verified monthly reduction, capped at 12 months. No upfront fee. No retainer.

How long does a typical engagement run?

30-60 days from kickoff to verified savings.

Who is this for?

SaaS, AI and B2B companies running $5k+/month in cloud spend.

What is excluded?

Application-level refactoring beyond cost. Pure observability dashboarding without a cost lens.

What are the contract terms?

One-page engagement letter. 14 days notice once implementation starts. No auto-renewal.

What if we exit early?

Pay only for verified savings already locked in. No clawback.

Do you sign NDAs?

Yes. Standard mutual NDA before any billing console access.