Free Audit

We try to understand your workload and the particular challenges you’re facing in order to see how we can help you out

The Audit

We set up an initial Zoom call with some of your engineers, in which after we briefly introduce ourselves we do a deep dive into your application’s cloud architecture.

Depending on the type of engagement we may look into different things, but since many of our engagements are related to cost optimization, let’s consider this type of engagement. Other types of engagements are similar in the way we operate, we just use different tools and look into different things.

Cost Optimization Example

We would look together at the AWS billing console or other cost insights tools you may be using, in order to understand your main cost drivers. Once we know where most of the money goes, we have a look at your main resources in the AWS console, to determine potential cost optimization activities which could be implemented immediately or in subsequent sessions.

If there’s anything which could be tackled immediately, we usually mention it right away. We often get to implement some harmless low hanging fruits during this first call, entirely free of charge.

As we go through your resources, we compile an initial list of opportunities for improvement, together with estimated outcomes, implementation effort and potential caveats.

Follow-up

After the call, we share this list, so you can see the potential cost reductions, and what investment it would take us to get there.

In the same document we will also propose a few ways for us to structure our relationship going forward, including our fees, prerequisites and suggested ways of working together going forward, since all these may depend on the findings resulted from the audit.

We may also recommend various cost insights and optimization tools that can be used to automate certain optimizations, but we’re very flexible when it comes to tooling. Our main goal is to maximize your savings - as for our cost optimization engagements we typically charge a recurring percentage of the savings - so the more we save you, the more we also earn ourselves.

Next steps

Based on this document you can decide if you want to pursue a collaboration with us, maybe you want to negotiate certain aspects of it, and so on. Once we have an agreement to continue and all the prerequisites are met we can get to work implementing those cost optimizations on your behalf(while also keeping you in the loop).

Literally nothing stops you from just taking those learnings and implementing them with your own engineers if they have the skills, bandwidth and interest to dive deep into such topics. We see this happening with some customers large enough to have a FinOps department, but most of our customers would rather have their engineers focus more on their core business, leveraging our deep knowledge and experience with such activities.

Please contact us if this sounds interesting or you have any questions, we’re happy to help you out.