# Cloud optimisation

> Cloud waste compounds quietly as you scale. We audit what you actually run, remove what you do not need, and right-size the rest without touching reliability.

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Covers: Cost audit, Right-sizing, Reserved capacity, Well-Architected review, FinOps, Autoscaling.

## What the practice covers

- **Cost audit**: A line-by-line review of your bill, mapped to the workloads and owners behind it.
- **Right-sizing**: Instances, storage and databases sized to real utilisation, with headroom for the peaks that matter.
- **Commitment strategy**: Reserved capacity and savings plans modelled against your growth curve, not last month's usage.
- **Architecture review**: A Well-Architected style review, with findings ranked by effort and impact.
- **Autoscaling & scheduling**: Capacity that follows demand, and non-production environments that switch off when idle.
- **FinOps practice**: Tagging, budgets and alerts, so cost stays visible to the teams who create it.

## How we run a cloud engagement.

A costed audit first, so every recommendation carries a number next to it.

1. **Access & inventory**: Read-only access to billing and accounts, then a full inventory of what you run and who owns it.
2. **Findings & quick wins**: A prioritised list of savings and risks, each with an estimated monthly impact and effort — then we execute the safe, high-value changes first.
3. **Structural work**: Architecture and commitment changes, sequenced so nothing is done in a way that harms reliability.
4. **Guardrails**: Budgets, tagging policy and reporting so the savings do not erode over the next two quarters.

## Lower spend, same or better reliability.

Cutting cost is easy if you are willing to break things. We do the version where nothing breaks: architecture review, measured changes, and guardrails that hold the savings.

- **Findings you can act on**: Every recommendation carries an estimated saving, an effort level and a reliability risk note.
- **No reliability trade**: We size for your real peaks, including month-end and campaign load, not for the average.
- **Multi-cloud fluency**: AWS depth as an AWS partner, with working knowledge across the other major providers.
- **Savings that persist**: Guardrails and reporting handed to your team, so cost discipline outlives the engagement.
- **Transparent method**: You see the model behind every number, including the assumptions we used.

## Questions and answers

### What does a cloud cost audit involve?

Read-only access to billing and accounts, a full inventory of what you run and who owns it, and a line-by-line review of the bill. You get a prioritised list of savings and risks, each with an estimated monthly impact and effort.

### How much will we save?

It depends on what you run, which is why the engagement starts with a costed audit. Every recommendation carries an estimated saving, an effort level and a reliability risk note, and you see the model and assumptions behind every number.

### Will cutting cost hurt reliability?

No. We size for your real peaks, including month-end and campaign load, not for the average, and changes are sequenced so nothing is done in a way that harms reliability.

### Which cloud providers do you work with?

We have AWS depth as an AWS partner, with working knowledge across the other major providers.

### How do the savings last after the engagement?

We leave guardrails behind: tagging, budgets, alerts and reporting handed to your team, so cost stays visible to the teams who create it.

## Next step

[Request a cost audit](https://vigesimal.tech/contact). A 30-minute call, no cost. You leave with our read on what to fix first, whether or not you hire us. We usually reply within one business day.

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