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Your AWS bill —
is it really optimized?

We take your bill and Cost Explorer and, within two weeks, deliver a report on your projected savings. The assessment is a fixed price. Implementation is quoted separately, or you can opt for a savings-share model.

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Pain points

Does your AWS usage look like this?

Once your monthly cost passes a certain size, keeping up optimization in-house stops being realistic.

Your monthly AWS bill keeps growing, but you cannot tell what is costing how much.
You have not adopted Reserved Instances or Savings Plans, or you are not sure they are working.
Unused resources (stopped EC2, unneeded EBS, undeleted snapshots) are probably sitting there.
Specs from an old estimate may now be over-provisioned for your current load.
Data transfer and NAT Gateway charges are higher than expected.
Management is asking for cost reductions, but you cannot get to it on your own.
Result

Expected savings range

Actual savings vary with your configuration and business phase. The figures below are general guides.

−20〜30%

Monthly cost reduction (guide)

By cleaning up over-provisioned and unused resources and reviewing purchase options, some cases see a 20–30% reduction in monthly AWS cost. The actual figure depends on your configuration, so we present it in the report after the assessment.

30 items

Standard checklist

We check every one of 30 items across cost-generating areas such as EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Network, and IAM.

2 weeks

Time to complete the assessment

We deliver the report in as little as 10 business days after receiving read access to your bill and Cost Explorer.

Scope

Assessment scope (30 items)

A structured checklist of cost-reduction checkpoints lets us surface everything without gaps.

01 Compute

Compute

We analyze instance sizes, CPU utilization, and running hours for EC2, ECS, Lambda, and Fargate, surfacing over-provisioned resources and ones left running.

  • EC2 instance size optimization
  • Stop/start schedule recommendations
  • Spot / Graviton migration potential
  • ECS task CPU / Memory settings
  • Lambda concurrency and timeout
  • Unused AMIs / snapshots
02 Storage

Storage and database

Focusing on EBS, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB, we review storage classes, backups, and snapshot retention periods.

  • EBS volume type optimization
  • S3 storage class tiering
  • Undeleted snapshots
  • RDS instances and storage
  • Backup retention periods
  • DynamoDB capacity mode
03 Network

Network and data transfer

We check areas where a configuration change alone can yield large savings, such as NAT Gateway, data transfer charges, and CloudFront cache settings.

  • NAT Gateway routing review
  • Use of VPC Endpoints
  • Identifying data transfer sources
  • CloudFront cache optimization
  • Route 53 / Global Accelerator
  • Whether multi-AZ is needed
04 Purchase

Purchase plan optimization

We calculate the potential for Savings Plans and Reserved Instances from the past 12 months of usage and recommend a safe commitment range.

  • Compute Savings Plans
  • EC2 Instance Savings Plans
  • RDS / ElastiCache RI
  • 1-year / 3-year commitment estimates
  • Effectiveness of existing purchase plans
  • Phased purchase schedule
05 Idle

Unused and low-utilization resources

We surface resources that are "stopped but still billed" or "running but unused," and include recommendations for tagging practices.

  • Unattached EBS / IPs
  • Stopped EC2 and related resources
  • Low-utilization EC2 / RDS
  • Unused LBs / NATs
  • Abandoned dev environments
  • Tagging policy recommendations
06 Governance

Operational governance

To keep costs from creeping back up after the assessment, we recommend operating rules and a notification setup, including the use of Cost Anomaly Detection.

  • Budget alert design
  • Cost Anomaly Detection
  • Account and organization structure
  • Billing visibility (Cost Explorer)
  • FinOps process recommendations
  • A monthly review format
Process

How the assessment works

The access we receive is read-only, and we make no changes to your production resources.

  • 01Sign-up and NDA — please share your monthly AWS spend.
  • 02Grant access — you grant a dedicated IAM user for us ReadOnlyAccess plus Billing read access.
  • 03Assessment (up to 10 business days) — we collect and analyze data via Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, and various APIs.
  • 04Report — we present projected savings, priority, and implementation difficulty, item by item, as a PDF.
  • 05Briefing and implementation discussion — a one-hour briefing to walk through the findings. For implementation you can choose in-house, our implementation, or the savings-share model.
Plans

Pricing

The assessment is a fixed price; for implementation you can choose from three models.

Diagnose

Assessment report

  • 30-item check
  • Projected savings calculation
  • Prioritized report
  • One-hour briefing
Implement

Implementation support

  • Help implementing the recommended items
  • Includes testing of the affected scope
  • Post-implementation impact measurement
  • Scope agreed individually in the contract
Share

Savings-share model

  • Implementation with no upfront fee
  • Settled on actual savings achieved
  • Terms set by individual contract
  • Requires monthly spend above a certain size
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

During the assessment our access is ReadOnlyAccess plus Billing read only, so we work in a state where changing resources is technically impossible. When moving to an implementation phase, we agree the scope and procedure in writing before starting.
The return tends to be clearer for customers whose monthly AWS spend is above a certain size. Below that, the assessment fee may not be recoverable, so we provide a rough estimate during the free consultation.
Yes. If the setup lets us view consolidated Cost Explorer from the master account, we can assess across all accounts. For a large number of accounts, we quote separately.
This package is AWS-only. For GCP / Azure cost questions, we handle them individually as spot support within infrastructure build and operation.
We deliver it in a format you can use for management reporting and budget approvals. Each reduction item is rated on three levels for risk, implementation difficulty, and projected savings, structured to make internal sign-off easier.
Yes. After the assessment, we offer a retainer contract that re-assesses monthly or quarterly. It suits customers who want to shift to FinOps-style operations.
Comparison

Compared with other options

With AWS cost optimization, the outcome depends on how you go about it.

Option A

Attempt the reduction in-house

  • Hard to cover every reduction item
  • RI / Savings Plans commitment calls are hard to make
  • Stalls because it is squeezed between core work
  • No system for measuring impact
Option B

Engage a large AWS partner

  • Long-term contracts assumed; hard to request the assessment only
  • The assigned person's scope is narrow
  • Fixed costs add up
  • Report granularity depends on the vendor
SHANNON Pack

AWS cost reduction assessment

  • A 30-item check leaves no gaps
  • Read-only access only; no changes to production
  • You can choose to stop at the assessment
  • Choose from savings-share, one-off, or recurring
Get started

The assessment can be purchased on its own

01 — Read-only No changes to production We work with ReadOnlyAccess only, so accidental changes to production resources are technically impossible.
02 — Fixed Price The assessment is a fixed price No overruns based on hours worked. You can also choose to stop at the assessment.
03 — Senior review Assessed by a senior engineer Rather than handing over raw tool output, we understand the whole configuration and present findings together with implementation difficulty and side effects.

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We reply within two business days of your inquiry.

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