AWS Cost Optimization

Free AWS cost audit. 20–40% savings or you don't pay.

We audit your AWS bill, identify the waste, and show you exactly where the money is going. If we don't find at least 15% in savings, you owe us nothing. For CTOs spending $10K–$200K/mo on AWS with no dedicated DevOps team.

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20–40% avg savings 30-day audit No upfront fee 17 years of AWS ops
Running production workloads for
Revolt MotorsPC JewellerRR KabelImpresarioIntentwiseLoomBhimaBGaussMitutoyo
46%
Largest single-client AWS bill cut
₹1.2 Cr
Annualized waste eliminated (last 10 audits)
30 days
From audit kickoff to savings
1,044
AWS resources under management
17 yrs
AWS-on-the-ground experience

What's in the free 30-day audit

Not a Trusted Advisor screenshot. Not an automated report. A real engineer reviews your account, talks to your team, and produces a prioritized savings plan with specific actions and projected dollar savings.

Compute right-sizing

EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch — every running instance reviewed against actual CPU/memory/network usage. We identify oversized resources and project monthly savings per instance.

Reserved Instances + Savings Plans

Most AWS bills have 30–60% on-demand spend that should be on RIs or Compute Savings Plans. We model the right blend of 1-year vs 3-year, no-upfront vs partial, by workload.

Storage cleanup

Unattached EBS volumes. Orphaned snapshots. S3 buckets without lifecycle policies. We find the storage bloat that quietly compounds and recover the spend.

Idle resource detection

Unused load balancers. NAT gateways with zero traffic. Dev/staging environments running 24/7. We identify what's billed but not used.

Data transfer + egress

Cross-AZ traffic, NAT gateway data processing, public-internet egress — the cost categories most teams ignore. We map your traffic flows and identify the optimization paths.

Architecture-level wins

Sometimes the biggest savings aren't tactical. Moving from RDS to Aurora Serverless. CloudFront fronting your S3. Spot for batch workloads. We flag the structural opportunities.

Arun Bansal, Founder of ZenoCloud
Arun Bansal
Founder & CEO, ZenoCloud (formerly ServerGuy, since 2009)
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A note from the founder

Senior engineers run the audit. I sign off on every plan.

We've been running production infrastructure for 17 years. Our 35-engineer team manages 1,044 servers across 11 regions for 170+ companies. AWS waste is the most consistent pattern I've seen — every account we audit has 20–40% in spend that doesn't need to be there.

If you book the free audit, a senior engineer on my team will personally walk through your account. I review every prioritised plan before it goes back to the customer. We're not selling you a product — we're trying to earn a relationship that lasts a decade.

If we don't find at least 15% in savings on your AWS bill, you owe us nothing. That's the deal. Most clients see 25–40%. The largest single audit we've run cut a $120K monthly bill to $65K.

— Arun Bansal, Founder, ZenoCloud

FAQ

AWS Cost Optimization FAQ

What's the catch on 'free'?
There isn't one. We do the 30-day audit at no cost because we're confident we'll find savings, and most clients want us to implement those savings (which is paid work — typically a 6–12 month managed engagement). If we don't find at least 15% savings, the audit is on us. We've never had to walk away.
Do you need full access to our AWS account?
No. We require IAM read-only access for the audit phase — Cost Explorer, billing data, EC2 describe APIs. No write access. We can also work entirely from CUR exports if your security policy doesn't permit cross-account roles. Implementation requires write access scoped to specific services, with all changes versioned in Terraform.
How is this different from AWS Trusted Advisor?
Trusted Advisor flags obvious waste — unattached EBS volumes, unused Elastic IPs. We do that too, but the bigger savings come from architecture-level decisions Trusted Advisor can't see. Should you move from RDS to Aurora Serverless? Is your CloudFront caching strategy losing you money? Is your dev environment costing more than production should? Those need a human.
What's the ICP for this?
Companies with $10K–$200K/mo AWS bills and no dedicated DevOps lead. Sweet spot is Indian SaaS at Series A–C, Indian e-commerce on AWS doing ₹20+ Cr GMV, or US SaaS with India connections. Below $10K/mo the math doesn't work for either side. Above $500K/mo you should also be talking to AWS Premier partners.
What if we already have Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer dashboards?
Most companies do. They tell you what's expensive, not what to do about it. Our audit produces a prioritized action plan with projected savings per recommendation, ranked by effort and risk. Plus the human judgment calls Trusted Advisor can't make.
How quickly do savings show up after we implement?
Right-sizing and idle-resource cleanup hit the next billing cycle. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans show up immediately. Architecture-level changes take 30–90 days. We've taken bills from $120K to $65K within 60 days of implementation start.
Do you help with non-AWS clouds (Azure, GCP)?
Yes, but AWS is our deepest competence. ~80% of our cloud-ops clients are AWS-primary. We can audit Azure and GCP environments using equivalent tooling, but the case study volume and savings track record is strongest on AWS.
What happens after the audit?
Your call. Three paths: (1) Implement the savings yourself — keep the report, don't owe us anything. (2) We implement the high-leverage items as a fixed-scope project. (3) We become your managed AWS team — ongoing optimization, 24/7 ops, security hardening, monthly cost reviews. Most clients pick option 3 because the savings keep compounding.
Ready when you are

Stop guessing where your AWS bill is going.

Free 30-day audit. No upfront fee. We find at least 15% in savings, or it's on us. Most clients see 25–40%.

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