Cloud Cost Optimization
Reduce your AWS, GCP, or Azure bill by 40 % on average - without touching your architecture.
Key deliverables
- Cloud Spend Audit
- Rightsizing Report
- Reservation & Commitment Strategy
- Tagging & Cost Allocation Framework
- Infrastructure-as-Code Refactor
- +1 more included
What We Actually Do
Cloud bills grow silently. Unused resources, over-provisioned instances, unattached volumes, and forgotten dev environments accumulate month after month until the invoice becomes a boardroom conversation. We've seen it across every major cloud provider.
Our optimization engagements start with a no-commitment audit that maps every pound of spend to a business outcome. We then implement changes - reservation purchases, rightsizing, architectural adjustments, and tagging policies - that produce measurable savings within the first billing cycle.
We work across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and we use Terraform to codify every change so your infrastructure remains auditable, reproducible, and owned by your team after the engagement ends.
Technology stack
Results That Matter
Metrics from real client engagements - not projections or best-case estimates.
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Estimated Monthly Savings
$1,330 – $2,470
Over 12 Months
$15,960 – $29,640
Typical payback period
2–3 weeks of savings covers our fee.
Based on benchmarks from 50+ cloud optimisation engagements. Actual results vary.
What We Deliver
Every deliverable is documented, signed off, and yours to keep. No black-box handovers, no knowledge held hostage.
Cloud Spend Audit
A line-by-line analysis of your current cloud bill mapped to services, teams, and business outcomes. Identifies waste, idle resources, and optimisation opportunities with estimated savings per action.
Rightsizing Report
Instance, database, and storage rightsizing recommendations backed by 30-day utilisation data, with risk assessment for each proposed change.
Reservation & Commitment Strategy
A savings plan and reserved instance strategy that balances commitment risk against discount depth for your actual workload patterns.
Tagging & Cost Allocation Framework
A mandatory tagging policy and cost allocation setup that gives engineering and finance teams real-time visibility into spend by team, product, and environment.
Infrastructure-as-Code Refactor
All optimisation changes codified in Terraform with documented state files, so your infrastructure is reproducible and changes are peer-reviewable.
FinOps Runbook
A monthly review process, alerting thresholds, and anomaly detection configuration that keeps costs under control after the engagement ends.
Ready to get started with Cloud Cost Optimization?
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll send a written scope within 24 hours - no obligation.
Our Process
Every engagement follows a structured methodology - documented before we start, so you always know exactly where things stand.
- 01
Spend Audit
We connect to your cloud billing data (read-only access) and produce a full spend map within 5 business days, identifying the top 20 % of costs driving 80 % of the bill.
- 02
Optimisation Roadmap
We prioritise opportunities by savings potential and implementation risk, producing a phased roadmap that targets quick wins first.
- 03
Quick Wins Implementation
Idle resource cleanup, snapshot lifecycle policies, and storage tier adjustments that deliver immediate savings with zero architectural risk.
- 04
Rightsizing & Reservations
Compute rightsizing and commitment purchases (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, CUDs) that deliver sustained discounts aligned to your workload baseline.
- 05
FinOps Handover
Cost allocation tagging, budget alerts, and a monthly review process handed over to your team with full documentation and a 30-day post-engagement check-in.
Before & After HUK SONS IT
The typical starting point - and where clients are after their first engagement.
- Over-provisioned instances running 24/7
- No reserved instance or savings plan strategy
- Orphaned snapshots and idle resources consuming budget
- No cost allocation tags - impossible to attribute spend
- Rightsized instances with intelligent auto-scaling
- Optimised RI/SP coverage matched to actual baseline load
- Automated cleanup schedules for idle and orphaned resources
- Full tagging taxonomy with department-level cost reports
Related Case Studies
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Frequently Asked Questions
Questions clients typically ask before engaging us for Cloud Cost Optimization.
Ready to get started with Cloud Cost Optimization?
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll map your requirements, send a written scope within 24 hours, and start work within a week of sign-off.