Cloud cost optimization for Waterloo businesses.
Cloud providers charge for what you switch on, not what you use. I go through your bill line by line, find what's idle, oversized or forgotten, and fix it without slowing anything down.
Sound familiar?
- Your cloud bill has grown faster than your business.
- Nobody can explain what half the line items are.
- Test and development servers run all night and all weekend.
- You're still paying for old projects, or for licences of people who have left.
What I do.
Rightsizing
Servers and databases sized to what they actually use, not what someone guessed years ago.
Scheduling
Test and development systems switched off at night and on weekends.
Clean-up
Old backups, loose disks, unused IP addresses and idle network add-ons removed.
Yearly pricing
Lower rates for the things that always run, once we know what they are.
Software licences
Unused Microsoft 365 and other software seats found and cancelled.
A bill you can read
A short monthly report showing where the money goes and who is spending it.
How it works.
- Read-only accessYou give me read-only access to billing. Nothing can be changed at this stage.
- Findings reportA plain-English list of savings, each with a dollar figure and a risk rating.
- FixWe apply the changes together, safest first, and check the bill afterwards.
- Keep it downAn optional monthly check so the savings stay saved.
Common questions.
Which cloud platforms do you work with?
AWS and Microsoft Azure, plus the software subscriptions that sit around them, like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Will cutting costs slow anything down?
Each change is checked against real usage first, and the riskier ones are tested before they go live. If something needs more capacity, it keeps it.
How long does a review take?
It depends on the size of your setup. We agree on the timeline on the first call, before any work starts.
Other ways I help.
Tell me what's leaking.
A 30-minute call is the quickest way to find out whether I can help. You'll leave with a first read on what's leaking and what closing it would take.