Your AWS bill is growing
Do you know why?
A technical cloud cost audit that identifies where your AWS spend is going, where unnecessary costs exist, and what you can do about them.
Built for SaaS, AI and technology companies running significant workloads on AWS
Cloud costs rarely come from one big mistake
They accumulate through hundreds of small infrastructure decisions
Overprovisioned compute
Instance types selected for peak loads that never occur, running oversized 24/7 without automated rightsizing.
Idle resources
Dev and staging clusters running full throttle over weekends, unattached elastic IPs, and legacy test instances.
Unused load balancers and volumes
Orphaned EBS volumes detached from terminated instances and load balancers directing traffic to zero targets.
Inefficient Kubernetes workloads
Inflated pod resource requests locking up node capacity while actual CPU and memory utilization sit below 15%.
Expensive data transfer
Data flowing unnecessarily across Availability Zones or through NAT Gateways instead of direct VPC Gateway Endpoints.
Poor commitment decisions
Purchasing Compute Savings Plans before rightsizing, locking your company into paying for unnecessary infrastructure.
Infrastructure that nobody owns anymore
Proof-of-concept databases and abandoned services created by former team members that continue billing monthly.
By the time these costs become obvious on the invoice, they may have been accumulating for months.
AmeerCloud helps you find them.
A Cloud Cost Audit built from the infrastructure up
This is not just a report of what you spent last month. I analyze your cloud infrastructure alongside your billing data to understand what is actually driving your spend.
Understand
Where your AWS money is going.
Investigate
Which services, resources and architectural decisions are driving the bill.
Identify
Idle, overprovisioned, inefficient or unnecessary spend.
Quantify
The potential financial impact of optimization opportunities.
Prioritize
Which changes are worth addressing first.
Recommend
A practical roadmap your engineering team can actually execute.
What I analyze
Compute
EC2 utilization, instance sizing, autoscaling, idle resources and compute efficiency.
Kubernetes
EKS clusters, resource requests and limits, utilization, overprovisioning and workload efficiency.
Storage
EBS volumes, snapshots, S3 storage patterns and unused resources.
Databases
RDS sizing, utilization, storage, replicas and database infrastructure costs.
Networking
Data transfer, NAT Gateway usage, inter-AZ traffic and network architecture.
Commitments
Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, utilization, coverage and commitment strategy.
Billing & Visibility
AWS accounts, cost drivers, allocation, tagging and areas where spending is difficult to explain.
What you receive
At the end of the audit, you don’t just get a list of AWS recommendations.
You get a clearer picture of your cloud economics.
Cost Driver Analysis
Understand which AWS services and infrastructure components are consuming your budget.
Waste Analysis
Identify resources and spending patterns that may be unnecessary or inefficient.
Savings Opportunities
A practical assessment of where optimization may reduce your cloud spend.
Prioritized Recommendations
Not every optimization deserves immediate attention. I help separate high-impact opportunities from low-value changes.
Action Plan
A practical roadmap for what to investigate, change and monitor next.
The AmeerCloud approach
Cloud cost optimization should not start when finance receives the invoice, but should be considered throughout the infrastructure lifecycle. Here is a five phase framework for thinking about cloud cost.
Code
Consider cost before infrastructure is created.
Deploy
Introduce cost awareness and guardrails when infrastructure is deployed.
Run
Optimize infrastructure that is already running.
Allocate
Understand who, what product or which workload is responsible for spend.
Billing
Optimize rates, commitments and the economics of the cloud bill.
Why AmeerCloud?
I come from the infrastructure side of cloud cost optimization.
Working as a DevOps engineer across AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Linux production environments managing over $500K in monthly AWS spend shaped how I approach FinOps. Cloud cost is not separate from engineering. The objective is not to blindly cut infrastructure, but to find unnecessary spend while protecting performance, reliability, and engineering velocity.
Architecture decisions become billing decisions.
Infrastructure decisions become financial decisions.
Technical analysis, not generic cost-cutting advice. Connecting billing data to the infrastructure producing the bill.
Monthly AWS Spend Managed
Direct hands-on experience scaling large production AWS environments.
Infrastructure-Led
Rooted in Kubernetes, Terraform, and system architecture.
Production Disruption
Strictly read-only access. Zero risk to live production systems.
Pure Technical Audits
No retainers or generic advisory. Just concrete engineering plans.
Projects & Analysis
Real infrastructure. Real cost questions
AmeerCloud publishes technical analysis of cloud infrastructure, AWS billing and cost optimization.
AWS Cost Optimization
Infrastructure-level analysis of AWS services, utilization and spending.
Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Analysis of EKS and Kubernetes infrastructure efficiency.
Cloud Network Cost
Investigations into data transfer, NAT Gateway and network architecture costs.
Original Research
Independent analysis of cloud cost optimization tools, infrastructure patterns and emerging cloud economics problems.
Technical analysis, not generic cost-cutting advice
A cloud bill tells you what you paid, but it does not tell you why you paid it. Understanding true cost drivers requires connecting billing data directly back to the infrastructure producing those numbers. That is where AmeerCloud focuses.
Who is this for?
AmeerCloud is designed for:
SaaS companies scaling on AWS
AI companies with growing infrastructure costs
Engineering teams managing significant AWS spend
Startups whose cloud bill has grown faster than expected
Companies preparing for a FinOps or cloud cost optimization initiative
Teams that know they are spending too much but don’t know where to start
If your AWS bill is becoming a meaningful business expense, a cost audit can give you a clearer starting point.
Frequently asked questions
The audit may require read-only access to relevant AWS billing and infrastructure information. The purpose is analysis, not making changes to your production environment.
The Cloud Cost Audit is focused on analysis and recommendations. Implementation can be discussed separately if required.
Cloud environments are different. Potential savings depend on your architecture, workload, utilization, commitments and business requirements. The audit identifies and quantifies opportunities rather than promising an arbitrary percentage before analyzing the environment.
AmeerCloud is primarily focused on SaaS, AI and technology companies with meaningful AWS spend where optimization opportunities can justify a structured audit.
We’ll first understand your environment, current cloud spend and objectives. If an audit makes sense, I’ll explain the scope, access requirements, deliverables and next steps.
Find out what’s actually driving your AWS bill
Your cloud bill is a financial statement of your infrastructure decisions.
Understand it before you try to optimize it.