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AWS and EKS Cost

Find out where your AWS money goes, and what's safe to cut.

Fixed fee, read-only access. You get a ranked list of savings, each priced in dollars a month with effort and risk.

Play with the levers

See how the two biggest levers add up.

Set your own numbers. The review replaces your assumptions with what your bill actually shows.

$20,000
30%

Stateless, interruption-tolerant workloads only.

55%

AWS says up to 90% vs On-Demand. Yours varies by instance and region.

40%

Share of total compute. It can't overlap the Spot share.

25%

AWS says up to 72%, depending on term and plan type.

Illustrative monthly math

Today$20,000
After these levers$14,700
Spot lever
$3,300
Savings Plans lever
$2,000

$5,300 / month on paper

This is arithmetic on your own assumptions, not a quote or a promise. The review replaces it with numbers from your actual bill, each priced in dollars a month with effort and risk. Sources: AWS Spot, AWS Savings Plans.

What I review

Six places money usually hides.

Node groups and autoscaling

Instance shapes, utilization, Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler config.

Pod requests and limits

Oversized requests are the usual root of oversized nodes.

Savings Plans and Spot coverage

What's committed, what could be, what's interruption-tolerant.

Idle load balancers and volumes

Unattached EBS, old snapshots, LBs with no targets.

Data transfer

NAT gateway traffic, cross-AZ chatter, egress.

Log retention

CloudWatch log groups set to never expire.

Deliverable

A ranked list, not a slide deck.

FindingEffortRisk
Right-size web pod requests$ / month from your billLowLow
Move CI runners to Spot$ / month from your billLowLow
Expire debug log groups$ / month from your billLowNone
Compute Savings Plan for baseline$ / month from your billLowMed
Cut cross-AZ traffic on queue$ / month from your billMedMed

Example layout with illustrative rows. Your report uses your own findings and dollar figures.

Plus Terraform PRs if you hire me to implement.

Packages

Review, or review and implement.

AWS Cost Review

$1,500 fixed

10 business days

Ranked savings list in $/month · Effort and risk for each item

Not included: Implementation.

EKS Cost Sprint

From $4,500

30 days

The Cost Review · PRs: node right-sizing · Karpenter or autoscaling · Spot mix · Cleanup

Not included: Guaranteed savings, app code changes.

Honest savings line

Results depend on your setup. AWS says Spot can be up to 90% cheaper than On-Demand and Savings Plans up to 72%, but your number comes from your data, not a promise.

Guardrails

Read-only IAM. Every change is a reviewable PR. No production changes without written approval.

Proof

Real results only.

PlaceholderReal client result here, with written permission.
PlaceholderWorked example on a public demo cluster, clearly labeled as a demo.

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