Cutting cloud costs without cutting corners

Most cloud bills we review have the same three problems, in the same order of impact.

1. Orphaned resources

Unattached disks, idle load balancers, forgotten dev environments left running over a weekend. None of this shows up as “waste” on a dashboard — it just shows up as a bill. A monthly resource audit against a tagging policy catches nearly all of it.

2. Wrong-sized compute

Instances are usually sized for a peak that happens twice a year, then left there permanently. Right-sizing based on 30/60/90-day utilisation, combined with autoscaling for the genuinely spiky workloads, is the single biggest lever most companies haven’t pulled yet.

3. On-demand pricing for steady-state load

If a workload has run continuously for three months, it will keep running. Reserved instances or savings plans on that baseline typically save 30-50% with zero architectural change.

None of this requires a migration or a re-platform — it’s a two-week assessment against your existing footprint. That’s usually where we start.