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Rightsizing and waste elimination.

Roughly a third of your cloud bill is idle, oversized, or forgotten. We find it, right-size what is left, and lock it so it does not drift back, across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. Pay a fixed fee, or pay us only from what we save you.

Fixed fee · scopePerformance · no savings, no feeManaged · ongoing
$420M
Cloud spend optimized across four clouds
31%
Average reduction in monthly cloud bill
500+
Cloud environments optimized since 2019
4
Clouds covered · AWS · Azure · GCP · OCI

Rightsizing and waste elimination is the fastest-converting work in cloud cost optimization. It changes your run rate immediately, it needs no procurement or contract, and it shrinks the baseline before you buy any commitment. It is where we start on almost every engagement, and it is where the first chunk of our 31 percent average reduction comes from.

The problem we solve

Cloud waste is not careless engineering. It is the predictable result of a system where provisioning is instant, decommissioning is nobody's job, and the people creating cost rarely see the bill. Capacity outruns demand, resources outlive their purpose, and defaults are generous. The waste is real, it is large, and it is almost always defensible to remove once you can see it clearly. The hard part is finding it across four clouds, putting a credible dollar figure on it, and removing it without breaking anything. That is the work.

How we work: See, Cut, Lock, Run

We run the same loop on every engagement, the same method behind every page on this site.

See · Inform

Tagging plus FOCUS-normalized billing data so every dollar has an owner across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. We rank waste by dollars, not by noise.

Cut · Optimize

Kill idle and zombie spend, then right-size compute, databases, storage and containers. Schedule and autoscale what does not need to run at peak.

Lock · Govern

Budgets, anomaly alerts and guardrails, plus the defaults that stop the next round of over-provisioning before it starts.

Run · Operate

A continuous detection loop so the savings hold and the unit cost keeps falling as the business grows.

What is included

  • A full waste audit across all four clouds: idle, zombie and oversized resources, ranked by dollars.
  • Compute, database, storage and Kubernetes rightsizing recommendations, with safe increments and rollback notes.
  • Scheduling and autoscaling for non-production and elastic workloads.
  • Storage tiering, lifecycle policies and egress reduction.
  • A quantified, owned waste figure you can report to leadership.
  • A continuous detection process so the savings do not unwind.

See the waste before you commit a dollar.

Our cloud cost audit reads your billing and usage data, ranks every opportunity, and hands you a prioritized plan. On the performance model, you pay only from realized savings. No savings, no fee.

Book a cloud cost audit →

Three ways to pay

We are independent and vendor neutral. We sit on your side of the table against the cloud bill, and you choose how to pay for that.

Model 01

Fixed fee

Scoped to the engagement

A defined scope for a defined price. Best when you want a known cost and a clear deliverable.

  • Predictable budget
  • Defined scope and timeline
  • Full audit and remediation plan
Model 02

Performance fee

No savings, no fee

We carry the risk and are paid from realized savings. Best when you want results without upfront cost.

  • Zero cost if we save you nothing
  • Fully aligned incentives
  • Paid from what you actually save
Model 03

Managed FinOps

Ongoing monthly service

We run the loop for you, month after month. Best when you want the savings to keep compounding.

  • Continuous waste detection
  • Monthly reviews and reporting
  • Anomaly response

Proof: spend, redirected

Rightsizing and waste removal is the lever behind every one of our live case studies. A SaaS platform on AWS cut its bill 33 percent by rightsizing EC2 before laddering Savings Plans. A retailer on Azure cut 31 percent with disk rightsizing, Hybrid Benefit and reservations. A fintech across GCP and OCI cut 35 percent with committed use discounts, storage tiering and shape rightsizing. See the numbers in our case studies.

Related reading

This service is the firm-level version of an entire content cluster. Start with the complete guide to cloud rightsizing and waste elimination, then go deeper on rightsizing compute step by step, auditing an environment for waste, and stopping waste from coming back. The companion storage work is in the complete guide to cloud storage and data cost optimization. For a single downloadable reference, download the Cloud Waste Audit Framework.

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Cloud pricing moves. We tell you when it matters.

New commitment instruments, FOCUS changes, hyperscaler pricing shifts, and the plays that actually move a bill. No schedule, no filler.

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