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Cloud cost · DevOps · Falls Church, VA

Is a third of your cloud bill paying for nothing?

Industry surveys put self-reported cloud waste at 29% in 2026. Six questions tell you roughly where you sit. Your number appears on screen, no email, no account access.

Run the sanity check Book the 5-hour pilot

Sixty-second sanity check

$12,000
Six questions
More than half of steady compute is covered by reserved instances or savings plans
Non-production environments shut down outside working hours
Unattached volumes, old snapshots and idle IPs are cleaned up at least quarterly
Object storage has lifecycle rules moving cold data to cheaper tiers
Instances and databases were right-sized in the last 90 days
More than 80% of spend carries a team or product tag

ESTIMATED WASTE

$3,000–$3,960 per month

= $36,000–$47,520 per year at 25–33% waste

0%35%

29% industry average, Flexera 2026

  • Commitment coverage
  • Idle non-prod
  • Orphaned storage and IPs
  • +3 more in the checklist

An estimate from six answers, not a measurement. The pilot measures.

Where the waste usually is

01

On-demand forever

Steady workloads billed at the most expensive rate for years.

02

Dev runs all weekend

Twelve idle hours a day, seven days a week.

03

Snapshots nobody owns

Terabytes of backups of servers that no longer exist.

04

One size for everything

Instances sized for launch day, never revisited.

The 5-hour pilot, cost edition

Read-only billing access, Cost Explorer or Cost Management, 90 days of data. In five billed hours you get a line-by-line waste list, the three changes we would make first and the commits or tickets to make them. You keep everything whether or not you continue.

  • Read-only access
  • $65/hr
  • Findings in 48 hours
  1. 01

    Sanity check

    Six answers, one band.

  2. 02

    Pilot

    Five hours against your real bill.

  3. 03

    Fix or retain

    We implement, or your team does with our list.

Who does the work

AWS Certified
DevOps lead engineer
$65/hr
current client rate
48 h
to start
Falls Church, VA
US-based, Eastern Time

Current engagements include AWS consulting for a US technology client and platform engineering delivered fixed-price [PROOF: client names and savings figures pending approval].

FAQ

It is a benchmark-based estimate from your six answers. Only the pilot measures your account.

No. Billing read-only for the pilot; scoped, logged access only if you ask us to implement.

Yes, same method.

Only for workloads that have run steadily for 90 days and will keep running.

The five-hour pilot.

Get the 12-point checklist, then decide about the pilot.

Your answers and waste band travel with the form.