Sized for a peak that never comes
Instances, node pools and databases were sized for launch day and never revisited.
Cloud cost optimization
Cloud cost optimization consulting for AWS and Azure
Find out exactly where your cloud money goes, then cut the waste in order of value and risk. Done by an engineer who reads the bill line by line and then makes the changes.
Hands-on, every day, in production
- AWS
- Azure
- Amazon EKS
- Azure AKS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
Why cloud bills grow faster than the business
Paying on-demand for steady load
The same baseline runs 24/7, billed at the most expensive rate the cloud offers.
Hidden line items
Data transfer, NAT, logs, snapshots and idle IPs add up to a large share nobody looks at.
What gets looked at
Every audit covers the same ground, so nothing is missed, and every finding gets a monthly value.
Compute rightsizing
Utilisation over weeks, not a single snapshot.
- Oversized VMs and instances
- Kubernetes requests vs real usage
- Newer, cheaper instance families (Graviton, AMD, Azure v5/v6)
Commitment discounts
Cover the stable baseline, leave the rest flexible.
- Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
- Azure reservations and savings plans
- Azure Hybrid Benefit where licences allow
Storage and data
Usually the easiest money to recover.
- gp2 → gp3, Premium → Standard where safe
- Snapshot and backup retention
- S3 / Blob lifecycle and storage tiers
Network and data transfer
The line item teams understand least.
- NAT Gateway traffic and VPC endpoints
- Cross-AZ and cross-region traffic
- CDN and egress patterns
Idle and forgotten resources
Things nobody remembers creating.
- Unattached disks and idle load balancers
- Old environments and test clusters
- Unused public IPs
Visibility and guardrails
So savings stay saved.
- Tagging strategy that finance can use
- Budgets and anomaly alerts
- Monthly cost review routine
Why founder-led matters for cost work
Large consultancies run cost audits with tools and junior analysts, then hand a report to your team to implement. The report is accurate, and it often sits unread because nobody has the time to act on it.
At NextOpsLab the engineer who audits your account is the one who implements the changes, if you want them to. That means findings are written to be actioned, with the exact change, the risk and the rollback for each one, and nothing is lost in a hand-off.
The audit covers both AWS and Azure, and the Kubernetes clusters on top of them (EKS and AKS), which is where a lot of hidden waste lives: node pools sized for requests nobody uses, and clusters left on versions that now cost extra for extended support.
How the audit works
20-minute call
You tell me what the bill looks like and what you have tried. No slides, no demo.
Read-only access
For a paid audit, you create a read-only IAM role (AWS) or Reader role (Azure). I send the exact policy.
Savings report in 5 days
Every finding has a monthly value, the effort to fix it and the risk.
I implement, or you do
Hand the plan to your team, or I make the changes with your approval on each one.
Read-only access. NDA on request. No change is made without your written approval.
What it costs
Every engagement starts with a free 20-minute review, so you know the size of the opportunity before you spend anything.
Step 1
Free cloud bill review
Free
A 20-minute call and a one-page note naming the 3 biggest leaks in your bill.
- You send a Cost Explorer or Azure Cost Management export
- 20-minute call to understand your workload
- One-page note: 3 biggest leaks, with rough monthly value
- No access to your account needed
Step 2
Cloud Cost Audit
₹14,999 – ₹24,999$299 – $499
5 working days. A savings report with a value against every line, and a plan to get it.
- Read-only access review of AWS or Azure
- Savings report with ₹ / $ value per finding
- Prioritised fix plan: quick wins first, risk noted
- 45-minute walkthrough with your team
If the audit does not find savings worth at least 3x its fee, the fee is refunded.
Start with the free reviewStep 3
Savings implementation
Fixed quote
I make the changes from the audit, with your approval on each one.
- Rightsizing and idle-resource cleanup
- Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and Azure reservations
- Storage tiering, gp2 → gp3, Graviton and Spot where safe
- Tagging, budgets and cost alerts
Fixed quote, or 20–25% of the first 6 months of verified savings.
Book a callQuestions people ask
How much can cloud cost optimization usually save?
It depends on how the account has grown. Accounts that have never had a cost review usually have obvious waste: idle resources, oversized instances and no commitment discounts. The free review gives you a rough number for your account before you pay anything.
Will cutting costs hurt performance or reliability?
Not if it is done in the right order. Every finding in the audit is rated for risk, quick wins with no runtime impact come first, and rightsizing is based on weeks of real utilisation data with headroom left in.
What is the difference between this and AWS Trusted Advisor or Azure Advisor?
Advisor tools list generic recommendations. An audit checks them against how your system actually behaves, removes the ones that would break something, adds what the tools miss (architecture, data transfer, Kubernetes waste) and puts a monthly value and a plan on each one.
Do we have to commit to Savings Plans or reservations?
No. Commitments are often the biggest single saving, but they are recommended only for the stable baseline of your usage, after rightsizing, and only for terms you are comfortable with.
What is FinOps, and do we need it?
FinOps is the practice of making engineering, finance and product share responsibility for cloud spend. For a small team it can be as simple as tags, a monthly budget per environment, alerts and a 30-minute monthly review. That is what the retainer sets up.
Find out what your cloud bill is hiding
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