FinOps on AWS

AWS Cost Optimization

Proven AWS cost reduction with FinOps, right-sizing, Savings Plans, and cost governance. Real cases with up to ~55% reduction.

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The challenge

AWS costs growing without control

Many companies see their AWS costs growing month over month without understanding why. Over-provisioned resources, idle instances, lack of commitments (Reserved Instances or Savings Plans), and absence of cost governance are common causes. Without a FinOps practice, waste can represent a material share of the bill.

Who it's for

Companies that want to reduce AWS costs

Engineering, finance, and leadership teams that need to control AWS spending. Ideal for companies with AWS bills above $10K/month that have never done an optimization exercise, or that want to implement a continuous FinOps practice.

FinOps diagnosis

How to turn an AWS bill into an action plan

Baseline required

CUR or Cost Explorer, tags, accounts, environments, owners, commitments, seasonality, and planned changes.
Cost by product, customer, environment, transaction, or workload, not only monthly total.
Separate production from dev/test, logs, data transfer, NAT Gateway, storage, snapshots, and observability.

Quick wins

Idle instances, unattached EBS, old snapshots, Elastic IPs, forgotten environments, and logs without retention.
Storage tiering and data-transfer review before long commitments.
Right-sizing with metrics, safety margin, validation window, and rollback.

Commitment strategy

Savings Plans and RIs only make sense when workload direction, Region, family, and seasonality support the term.
Future modernization can reduce the value of commitments bought too early.
Every recommendation should have owner, risk, estimated savings, rollback condition, and review date.

Recommendation record

How a cost recommendation should be documented

Minimum fields

Current resource, utilization, recommendation, estimated savings, risk, owner, validation window, and rollback.
Impact on performance, availability, support, compliance, and operations.
Criteria to confirm the savings did not break the service.

Beyond compute

Include data transfer, NAT Gateway, observability, logs, snapshots, storage tiering, dev/test environments, and AI traffic.
Continuous FinOps should become a monthly cadence between engineering and finance, not a one-off audit.

FinOps services

How we optimize your AWS costs

Assessment and quick wins

Analysis of your current AWS bill to identify immediate waste: idle instances, unattached EBS, unused Elastic IPs, and over-provisioned resources. The initial focus is prioritizing low-risk savings opportunities before structural changes.

Right-sizing and Savings Plans

Instance right-sizing based on actual utilization. Recommendation and implementation of Savings Plans and Reserved Instances when usage patterns justify 1- to 3-year commitments.

Spot and optimized architecture

Spot Instances for interruption-tolerant workloads when the operational profile allows it. Architecture review to use serverless services (Lambda, Fargate) and storage tiers (S3 Intelligent-Tiering).

Governance and continuous FinOps

Cost dashboards with Cost Explorer and CUR. Budgets and automatic alerts. Tagging strategy for cost allocation by team, project, and environment. Monthly optimization reviews.

~55%

cost reduction in a real case

CUR

analysis based on real usage data

250+

launches on AWS

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About Elevata

Your AWS partner for AWS Cost Optimization

Elevata is a consulting company specialized in helping your business tap into the full potential of AWS. Whether it's generative AI, modernization, or migration, our solutions are built to support efficient, sustainable growth. As an AI-native AWS Advanced Partner, we bring deep AWS expertise to help you adopt generative AI and build secure, scalable cloud environments aligned with your business needs and focused on outcomes you can sustain and build on over time.

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Frequently asked questions

What do people ask about AWS Cost Optimization?

How much can I save on my AWS bill?

Savings depend on workload maturity, utilization, existing commitments, and architecture. In many environments, the first assessment identifies low-risk opportunities in idle resources, right-sizing, storage, and commitment planning. For larger targets, we use CUR and Cost Explorer data before recommending changes.

What is FinOps?

FinOps is a practice that combines engineering, finance, and business to manage cloud costs. It includes real-time cost visibility, allocation by team/project, continuous optimization, and a culture of cost accountability.

Does right-sizing affect performance?

It should not when validated correctly. Right-sizing should use CPU, memory, network, I/O, performance targets, safety margin, validation window, and rollback. Changes without that evidence can create risk.

Does Elevata offer continuous optimization?

Yes. Beyond the initial assessment, we offer continuous FinOps as part of Elevata Orbit managed services. It includes monthly reviews, anomaly alerts, and Savings Plans updates as usage evolves.

Next step

Find out how much you can save on AWS

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