Cost Optimisation

Your cloud bill is probably 30% too high

I audit AWS and Datadog spend, identify the waste, and help you fix it — with a pricing model built so I only win when you do.

The Problem

Cloud overspend is the industry norm

Industry research confirms what I see in every engagement: most organisations are paying significantly more than they need to.

27%

of cloud spend is wasted

Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud report — unused or inefficiently used IaaS and PaaS resources.

$200B

in cloud waste in 2025

CloudZero estimates 32% of all cloud spending is wasted — translating to over $200 billion globally.

3–12×

over budget on Datadog

Teams regularly receive invoices 3x to 12x their budgeted amount. The true infrastructure cost runs ~97% above the base price.

Specialisation

AWS and Datadog — both, deeply

Most cost consultants cover AWS at a surface level. I go deep on both platforms, because that is where the real savings are.

AWS spend audit

I analyse your full AWS bill line by line — compute, storage, data transfer, and managed services. I identify what is over-provisioned, what is idle, and what can be replaced with a cheaper equivalent.

  • EC2 rightsizing and Reserved Instance strategy
  • Spot Instance adoption for fault-tolerant workloads
  • S3, RDS, and data transfer cost reduction
  • Savings Plans analysis and recommendations
  • Tagging hygiene and cost allocation setup

Datadog spend audit

Datadog bills are notoriously hard to predict and easy to overshoot. I audit your metrics, logs, and APM configuration to eliminate the waste that accumulates invisibly — until the invoice arrives.

  • Custom metrics and high-cardinality reduction
  • Log ingestion pipeline optimisation
  • APM and tracing scope review
  • Host and container agent rationalisation
  • Retention and archiving policy recommendations

How It Works

Three phases. One aligned incentive.

A structured process with a pricing model built around one thing: you saving real money.

1

Audit

Discovery and analysis

I connect to your AWS account and Datadog organisation, analyse your spend patterns, and produce a prioritised report of savings opportunities — with estimated impact and implementation complexity for each finding.

Fixed price: $1,500 / €1,300

Delivered in 2–3 weeks. No surprises.

2

Implementation

On your own or with me

The audit report is detailed enough for your team to implement the recommendations independently. Or I can work alongside your engineers — pairing on changes or taking full ownership of the implementation.

Time and material

You control the scope. Fully optional.

3

Results

I get paid after you save

For complete alignment of incentives, I recommend a success-fee arrangement instead of time and material. I take 30% of your verified first-year savings — so my only goal is to find and fix the biggest leaks.

Success fee: 30% of yearly savings

Zero risk. You only pay from what you save.

Why Me

FinOps without the account-manager layer

Large FinOps consultancies bring overhead and junior analysts. You get me — someone who has spent years operating AWS and Datadog at the engineering level, not at the reporting level. I have built and run the infrastructure I now audit.

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Engineering background, not advisory one

I know which optimisations are safe to make and which ones will cause incidents at 3am. That judgment only comes from running production systems.

Savings that last

I do not just identify quick wins. I fix the processes and tagging hygiene that cause costs to creep back up after a one-off cleanup.

Transparent pricing — no retainer traps

The audit is fixed price. Phase 2 is optional. Phase 3 is paid from savings. You are never locked into anything you did not choose.

Find out what your cloud is actually costing you

The audit is a fixed price and takes 2–3 weeks. If there are no savings to be found, I will tell you that too — and you will have the report to prove it.

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