AWS Cost and Reliability Optimization
The AWS bill climbed 30 to 50% with flat user growth, and outages still reach customers before your alarms do.
Match AWS spend and reliability to workload shape: right-sizing, scale-to-zero, managed multi-AZ services, health checks, and alarms that reach someone who can act.
You probably need this if…
- AWS spend climbed 30 to 50% while user growth stayed flat
- Reserved capacity was bought for services you've since migrated away from
- Lambdas, containers, or databases run 24/7 when traffic is bursty or batch-only
- Outages are discovered by customers, not by monitoring
- Leadership asked for an uptime target and nobody knows the current downtime budget
What's actually going wrong
Cost and reliability share a root cause: resources weren't matched to workload shape. Always-on defaults, oversized instances, and missing health signals mean you pay for idle capacity and learn about failure too late.
What I review or implement
- Cost allocation by service, tenant, and environment, with attribution that finance can use
- Workload-shape analysis: scheduled vs always-on, right-sizing, scale-to-zero candidates
- Reliability baseline: managed multi-AZ services, health checks, alarm routing
- SLO/SLA mapping to concrete architecture choices
- Quick-win vs structural changes separated so you see savings early
What you get
- Cost and reliability audit with dollar and downtime estimates per finding
- Ranked optimization plan, quick wins first, structural changes sequenced
- Implementation on highest-impact items (not just a slide deck)
- Monitoring and alarm templates wired to your on-call path
Proof
Material savings via scale-to-zero
Regulated SaaS client
ECS Fargate services ran around the clock in lower environments and off-peak hours in production. Scheduled scale-to-zero and per-environment capacity controls cut recurring spend materially, without touching application code.
- Material
- Recurring AWS spend cut
- Scheduled
- Scale-to-zero on bursty workloads
- No rewrites
- Application code unchanged
Request a cost and reliability assessment
Describe your symptoms, not a job spec. I'll reply within 48 hours with an honest read on whether the problem is structural, operational, or something else entirely.