Ortem Technologies

    Cloud & DevOps

    Cloud Cost Optimisation Services

    Cut AWS, Azure & GCP Spend by 30–40% — Measurable, Sustained Savings

    Most organisations overspend on cloud by 30–40%. We audit your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment, eliminate waste, and implement FinOps practices that deliver measurable, sustained savings.

    Also searching for cloud cost optimization (US spelling)? Same service — we work with US, UK, and Australian teams and tailor our FinOps recommendations to your cloud provider, region, and compliance requirements.

    Cloud & DevOps Services
    Clients Worldwide
    300+
    Projects Delivered
    1,000+
    Rated on Clutch & GoodFirms
    5/5
    Years Experience
    13+

    Cloud bills grow the way weeds do — one forgotten dev environment, one over-provisioned RDS instance, one team that never got around to buying Reserved Instances for a workload that's been stable for a year. None of it looks like a problem on its own; together it's the 25–40% most organisations are overspending without noticing. We find it and fix it, starting with a written audit before any commitment to implementation.

    Why the audit comes before any changes

    We don't touch your infrastructure on day one. The 5-business-day audit produces a concrete, written savings estimate — prioritised by impact, with the reasoning behind each recommendation — so you can see exactly what we'd change and why before agreeing to any implementation work. Most of the largest wins come from three places: right-sizing over-provisioned EC2/RDS instances, buying Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for workloads that are actually predictable, and simply finding the idle or orphaned resources nobody remembers spinning up.

    What the audit actually looks at

    We pull 90 days of billing and usage data through Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or GCP Billing (whichever applies), then cross-reference it against CloudWatch/Azure Monitor/Stackdriver utilization metrics — because a resource can look "in use" on the invoice while sitting at 4% CPU. That cross-reference is what catches the over-provisioned instances a billing report alone won't show you. We also audit committed-use coverage: Reserved Instances or Savings Plans bought for the wrong instance family or region are a common source of silent waste we find in almost every audit.

    Ready to see what you're overspending on? Get a free cloud audit → No changes to your infrastructure until you've seen the report and agreed to proceed.

    Engagement

    How the Engagement Works

    StageWhat it deliversTypical timeline
    Cloud spend auditWritten report: prioritised savings opportunities and projected ROI5 business days
    ImplementationRight-sizing, Reserved/Savings Plans, tagging, and FinOps tooling4–8 weeks
    Ongoing FinOps retainerContinuous optimisation, budget alerting, monthly reviewsOptional, month-to-month

    What we do

    What We Do

    Cloud Spend Audit

    A detailed analysis of every line item in your AWS, Azure, or GCP bill. We identify idle resources, right-sizing opportunities, and over-provisioned services within 5 business days.

    Reserved & Savings Plans

    We model your compute usage and recommend the right mix of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances to lock in 40–60% savings on EC2, RDS, and EKS.

    Architecture Optimisation

    We redesign compute and storage architectures to eliminate waste - replacing always-on servers with serverless, right-sizing databases, and consolidating redundant environments.

    FinOps Implementation

    We implement tagging policies, cost allocation dashboards, budget alerts, and chargeback models so every team owns their cloud spend.

    Outcomes

    Cloud Cost Optimization Results

    What clients achieve after our cloud cost optimization engagement:

    • 30–50% reduction in monthly cloud spend within 90 days
    • EC2 and RDS right-sizing with zero downtime
    • Savings Plans recommendations with break-even modelling
    • Automated cost alerts and budget guardrails
    • Team-level cost dashboards in CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, or Grafana
    • Architectural recommendations for long-term efficiency
    • Full FinOps tagging and chargeback framework
    • Ongoing monthly cloud billing reviews

    Investment

    Cloud Cost Optimisation Pricing

    EngagementTypical CostTimeline
    Cloud spend audit (single account)Free5 business days
    Implementation (right-sizing, RIs/Savings Plans, tagging)$8,000 – $25,0004–8 weeks
    Ongoing FinOps retainer$2,500 – $6,000/moMonth-to-month

    Most engagements pay for themselves within the first 60–90 days from the savings alone — we size the implementation fee against your projected annual savings during the audit.

    FAQ

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Most organisations that have not actively optimised their cloud spend see 25–40% savings within 90 days. The largest wins typically come from right-sizing over-provisioned EC2 and RDS instances, purchasing Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for predictable workloads, and eliminating idle or orphaned resources. We provide a concrete savings estimate in our audit report before any implementation begins.

    We work with all three major cloud providers — AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We also support multi-cloud environments where workloads are spread across providers. Our engineers hold certifications across all three platforms and use provider-native tools (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing) alongside third-party FinOps tools.

    We start with a 5-business-day cloud spend audit delivered as a written report with prioritised savings opportunities and a projected ROI. If you proceed, implementation typically runs 4–8 weeks depending on the number of accounts and complexity of your infrastructure. We then offer an optional ongoing FinOps retainer for continuous optimisation and budget alerting.

    The initial spend audit is free. Implementation — right-sizing, Reserved Instances/Savings Plans, tagging, and FinOps tooling — typically runs $8,000–$25,000 over 4–8 weeks depending on account count and infrastructure complexity. An optional ongoing FinOps retainer runs $2,500–$6,000/month. Most engagements pay for themselves within 60–90 days from the savings generated.

    No — right-sizing and Reserved Instance purchases are designed to be zero-downtime changes. We test capacity changes in a staging environment or during low-traffic windows first, and we roll out Reserved Instance and Savings Plan commitments only against workloads with at least 90 days of stable usage history, so we're not locking you into capacity you might not need.

    Yes — this is the point of the FinOps implementation, not an afterthought. We set up budget alerts, tagging policies for cost allocation by team or feature, and dashboards in Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or Grafana so spend increases get flagged before they become a surprise on next month's invoice, not after.

    Start Saving on Cloud Today

    Our free cloud spend audit takes 5 business days and delivers a prioritised list of savings opportunities with no obligation.

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