FinTech scale-up, US
Spend band: ~$3M/year, under an EDP
Situation: already partly optimized in-house, but with plenty still on the table across a large, EDP-covered footprint.
What we did: decommissioned unused RDS databases found in the first week (~$378k/yr), converted mis-provisioned EBS IO1 volumes to GP3 (~$156k/yr), moved steady-usage Aurora Serverless to provisioned (~$125k/yr), purchased RDS Reserved Instances (~$161k/yr), migrated ElastiCache to Valkey with rightsizing (~$86k/yr), removed unattached EBS volumes and old snapshots (~$27k/yr), plus cross-region RI cleanup and CloudWatch log-ingestion tuning.
Fast payback: the first two weeks alone delivered ~$378k/year in savings, enough to cover the entire cost of the engagement within a few months.
Result: more than $1.1M/year in delivered cost avoidance, and counting.
E-commerce SaaS scale-up, US
Spend band: ~$50k/month (~$600k/year)
Situation: a bill growing with the business, from $30k to $50k/month over a year, already optimized in places.
What we did: RDS (~40% of the bill) stopped over-using Aurora I/O-Optimized, rightsized, moved to Serverless v2 where it fit and bought RIs (~30% off); EC2 and Fargate (~30%) got Savings Plans covering ~70% of capacity plus task and instance rightsizing (~40% off); ElastiCache rightsizing, RIs and Valkey (~60% off); S3 storage-tier selection (~63% off); EBS IO1 to GP3 (~90% off in-scope volumes); removed avoidable cross-AZ traffic.
Result: cut to $36k/month, about $14.4k/month or ~$178k/year, roughly 30% of the entire bill.
Marketing/compliance SaaS, US
Spend band: ~$90k/month (~$1M/year)
Situation: already well optimized in some areas (S3 lifecycle), wanted a second set of expert eyes.
What we found: S3 cleanup and storage-class selection (~50% projected on the largest cost driver), RDS rightsizing and Graviton (~60% projected), ECS+Spot rightsizing (20-30%), EBS to GP3 with snapshot cleanup (~20%), and CloudWatch Logs retention (90%, implemented immediately).
Result: a prioritised list worth ~$300k/year, handed over for the team to implement at their own pace.
Every engagement is under NDA, so client names and identifying details are anonymised; references are available under NDA. Figures are measured against each client's bill before the changes. Delivered savings are already on the bill; identified savings are from audits the client implements at their own pace.