Cost Optimization
Cut infrastructure spend without touching your SLAs. Every saving is tested against your service levels before it ships.
Six places we look first.
Rightsizing
Match instance and resource sizes to how workloads really behave, not to how they were first provisioned.
Commitment planning
Use reserved capacity and savings plans where demand is steady, and stay flexible where it is not.
Waste removal
Find idle, orphaned and forgotten resources, and put a process in place so they do not return.
Storage and transfer
Tier data sensibly and reduce avoidable data movement between regions and providers.
Architecture changes
Some of the largest savings come from design: caching, scaling behaviour and where work runs.
Cost visibility
Allocate spend to teams and services so decisions are made by the people who can act on them.
Savings that do not cost you reliability.
Cheaper infrastructure is only a win if it still meets your service level objectives. We treat those objectives as fixed constraints and work within them.
- Each change is tested against your service level objectives
- Staged rollouts with automatic rollback
- Savings tracked next to reliability metrics
- Clear ownership recorded for every optimisation
Measure, prioritise, change, sustain.
Measure
Build an accurate picture of spend by service, team and environment.
Prioritise
Rank opportunities by value, effort and risk to your SLAs.
Change
Make changes in small, reversible steps with monitoring in place.
Sustain
Set budgets, alerts and review habits so costs stay under control.
Questions about cost work.
How much will we save?
It depends on how the environment has grown. After the measurement stage we can give an estimate based on your own data, rather than a generic promise.
Do you work across multiple cloud providers?
Yes. We work with the major public clouds as well as on-premises and hybrid environments.
Can our team keep this going afterwards?
That is the goal. We hand over dashboards, budgets and a review routine, and can stay involved if you want ongoing support.
Curious where your budget is going?
Share a rough picture of your environment and we will tell you where we would look first.