Cloudwalker Solutions

Cut cloud spend.
Keep the performance.

Most AWS accounts carry 30–40% of avoidable spend. Cloudwalker's FinOps practice finds it, eliminates it, and builds the visibility and governance so it doesn't come back.

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Cost Dashboard Live

38%

Avg cost reduction

$2.4M

Savings identified

14 days

Time to first saving

Savings by category

Reserved

100%

Right-sizing

82%

Idle resources

64%

Storage tiers

47%

What is Cloud Cost Optimisation

Visibility, control, and sustainable cloud economics

AWS bills grow fast. What starts as a controlled migration budget quickly becomes an opaque monthly invoice full of underused reservations, oversized instances, forgotten snapshots, and data transfer costs nobody planned for.

Cloudwalker's FinOps practice brings structure to your cloud spend. We start with a full cost inventory, identify quick wins, and implement the governance frameworks — tagging, budgets, rightsizing automation — that prevent waste from re-accumulating.

Cost inventory

Full breakdown of your AWS spend by service, account, team, and environment — with waste identified on day one.

Quick wins delivery

Reserved Instance purchases, Savings Plans, and idle resource cleanup typically recover 20–30% within the first 30 days.

FinOps governance

Tagging policies, AWS Budgets alerts, and cost anomaly detection keep spend under control as your infrastructure evolves.

Core capabilities

Every lever for reducing your AWS spend

Reserved Instance & Savings Plans strategy

Analyse your workload patterns and purchase the right mix of Reserved Instances and Compute Savings Plans. Cloudwalker manages the purchase strategy and monitors utilisation continuously.

Reserved Instances Savings Plans Commitment management

Right-sizing & idle resource removal

Use AWS Cost Explorer and Compute Optimizer recommendations to right-size EC2, RDS, and ElastiCache instances. Identify and terminate zombie resources draining budget silently.

Compute Optimizer Cost Explorer Right-sizing

Storage optimisation

Implement S3 Intelligent-Tiering, EBS snapshot lifecycle policies, and Glacier migration for cold data. Storage often represents 15–25% of total AWS spend with high optimisation potential.

S3 Intelligent-Tiering EBS lifecycle Glacier

Data transfer cost reduction

Analyse inter-region and internet egress costs. Architect VPC endpoints, CloudFront distributions, and regional data residency to minimise transfer fees — often the most overlooked cost driver.

VPC Endpoints CloudFront Egress optimisation

Tagging & cost allocation

Design and enforce a tagging taxonomy across all AWS resources. Map spend to business units, projects, and environments. Enable showback and chargeback reporting for accountability.

Resource tagging Cost allocation Showback

Automated cost governance

Deploy AWS Budgets with SNS alerts, Cost Anomaly Detection, and auto-remediation Lambda functions that respond to budget breaches before they escalate.

AWS Budgets Cost Anomaly Detection Lambda automation

FinOps practice

Three pillars of sustainable cloud economics

Pillar 01

Inform

Full cost visibility before any action. We map every dollar of AWS spend to a team, workload, or environment. You can't optimise what you can't see.

Pillar 02

Optimise

Right-size, reserve, and remove. Purchasing strategy for commitments, automated right-sizing recommendations, and systematic removal of idle and orphaned resources.

Pillar 03

Operate

Governance that sticks. Tagging enforcement, budget policies, anomaly detection, and monthly FinOps reviews ensure optimisations hold as your infrastructure grows.

Savings sources

Where your AWS budget is leaking

Oversized compute

EC2 and RDS instances sized for peak load but running at 10–20% utilisation most of the time.

Orphaned storage

Unattached EBS volumes, forgotten snapshots, and S3 buckets accumulating data that hasn't been accessed in months.

Unused reservations

Reserved Instances purchased without a utilisation strategy, covering workloads that have since been retired.

Data transfer

Unplanned inter-region traffic, NAT Gateway overuse, and internet egress that could be rerouted through VPC endpoints.

Cut cloud spend. Keep the performance.