Pragmatic, actionable AWS improvements
Get important insights into your AWS - control spend, hardens security, and protect your IP.
"We were particularly surprised by the cost savings, even at this early stage."
Audit your AWS usage
Get total visibility on all AWS usage - across all users, accounts, and geolocations.
Control and understand what your technical teams are using and it's financial costs: implement agreed cost controls; budget alerts; and informed financial forecasting.
Secure your data and resources
View a complete report of users, services they can access, and the actions that they can take.
Quickly implement changes to user permissions to protect against accidental damage and malicious actors that could cause IP (data), reputational, and financial losses.
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Knowing exactly what services, data, and actions are required to restart your production systems are core for disaster recovery.
Correctly organising your AWS estate, accounts, and services will slash your restart times, reduce your service worries, and, also importantly, build your systems for future growth - we offer key recommendations to evolve your estate to build for your growth.
Costs, savings and ROI
We have saved up to 20% on annual cloud spend - this is then compounded year-on-year saving by improving control and taking advantage of AWS services and offers. A common range is annual saving between 8% and 12%, giving an ROI of a few months.
We offer our AWS health check service for a fixed price:
£ 2,000 (+VAT)
We schedule an in-person site visit to speak with your primary users and stakeholders. Then over the next two weeks we delve into your AWS estates. Finally, we produce a report including:
- Expected annual savings
- List of actionable improvements
- Audit of current spend, by AWS user, service, account, and geolocation.
We also offer an optional debrief meeting post-assessment to prioritise and discuss recommendations.
"It was thorough, insightful, and clearly grounded in real-world experience."
What does the report cover?
The report is unique to your company and its needs: your style of development and developer; your environments and context; and your production and regulatory requirements.
The list of actionable recommendations broadly follows a similar flow: AWS accounts and user improvements, user security best practices, storage savings, improved data architecture to protect your IP, compute and service changes to save money without impacting development velocity or production stability. Time to implement, organisational benefits, and cost savings are included for each item.
The appendix includes a breakdown of users, accounts, and services broken down by AWS geographic region - this is an invaluable insight into where savings, budget alerts, and approval processes can be made to enable stronger financial controls and forecasting. These data are used to inform the recommendations.