When a Series B B2B SaaS client came to us in January 2026, their AWS bill had grown from $48K/month to $92K/month over 18 months. By April, we had reduced their monthly AWS spend to $57K — a 38% reduction — while maintaining 99.97% platform uptime.
The Five-Lever Framework
- 01Rightsizing (Week 1–2)
47% of m5.2xlarge instances were running at <18% CPU. Migrated to m6g.xlarge. $11,400/month saved.
- 02Reserved Instances & Savings Plans (Week 3)
1-year, no-upfront Compute Savings Plan covering 70% of baseline. $8,200/month saved.
- 03Idle Resource Audit (Week 3–4)
$1,840 in unattached EBS · $620 in stopped RDS · $340 in unused EIPs · $2,100 in NAT misconfig. $4,900/month saved.
- 04Data Transfer Optimization (Week 5–7)
VPC endpoints for S3/DynamoDB; consolidated AZs. $5,200/month saved.
- 05Per-Customer Cost Allocation (Week 8–10)
Mandatory tagging + Grafana dashboard. Three unprofitable customers identified.
The Bottom Line
$35K/month in savings, $420K annualized, 99.97% uptime maintained. The engagement paid for itself in week 6.
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