Find real savings in your AWS bill.
Pre-built, guided workflows walk you through the same checks a cloud cost consultant would run — rightsizing, storage class moves, reserved instance gaps, idle resource hunts. Answer a few questions and get a concrete plan.
Three steps. No spreadsheets.
A workflow is a short, branching conversation — like pair-programming with someone who has audited a few hundred cloud bills.
Pick a workflow
Browse by service (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, EFS…) or by savings category. Each workflow is a short guided conversation.
Answer a few questions
Tell us what your workload looks like. We branch the conversation based on your answers — no time wasted on irrelevant advice.
Get a concrete plan
Leave with a prioritized list of changes, AWS console links, and the exact CLI commands to run. Bring it to your team.
Workflows by topic
130+ guided workflows covering the cost levers that actually move the needle on a real AWS or Azure bill.
Compute
EC2 Fleet, Fargate Spot, Auto Scaling, Compute Optimizer
Storage
S3 lifecycle, EFS IA, Glacier tiers, EBS rightsizing
Databases
Aurora Serverless, RDS Reserved, DynamoDB on-demand
Networking
NAT consolidation, VPC endpoints, CloudFront vs egress
Serverless & AI
Lambda Power Tuning, Bedrock cost guardrails, SageMaker spot
Cross-cutting
Free tier, Trusted Advisor, tagging hygiene, budget alerts
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Hands-on writeups on AWS & Azure pricing quirks, gotchas, and the savings most teams miss.
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