Right-sizing
Most cloud bills pay for capacity that never gets used. We match instance types, storage tiers, and database sizes to real workload data, not to a guess made at launch.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Cut your cloud bill, not your capability.
Cloud spend creeps up quietly and rarely comes back down on its own. Tarmac has reduced client cloud costs by 50% or more through right-sizing, cleanup, smarter commitments, and architecture fixes, without trading away reliability. We are an AWS Advanced Partner.
50%+ cut from client cloud spend
AWS Advanced Partner
SOC 2 secure, audited practices
Where the savings come from
Six levers, pulled in the right order
We start with the fast, safe wins and work toward the structural savings that keep paying off, all measured against your real usage.
Idle & orphaned cleanup
Unattached volumes, forgotten snapshots, zombie load balancers, dev environments left running over the weekend. We find the waste that quietly compounds every month.
Commitments & discounts
Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed-use discounts, modeled against your actual usage so you lock in savings without over-committing to capacity you won’t need.
Architecture fixes
The expensive problems are architectural: chatty data transfer, oversized always-on services, workloads that should be serverless or spot. We fix the design, not just the invoice.
Autoscaling & scheduling
Scale to demand and switch off what nobody is using. Non-production environments should not cost the same at 3am on Sunday as they do at peak.
Ongoing FinOps
Optimization is not a one-time cleanup. We set up tagging, budgets, alerts, and accountability so spend stays visible and under control after we hand over.
How an engagement starts
The Cloud & DevOps Health Check
A fixed-scope review that turns a mystery invoice into a ranked, dollar-sized plan. You know exactly where the waste is before you commit to fixing it.
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Cost analysis
We pull your billing and usage data and map every dollar to a workload, so waste stops hiding inside a lump-sum invoice.
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Health check
A senior engineer reviews your architecture, DevOps practices, and cloud footprint against the Tarmac 10, flagging cost, reliability, and security risks together.
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Prioritized plan
You get a ranked list of savings, quick wins first, sized by dollar impact and effort, with the risky and the safe clearly separated.
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Execute & verify
We implement the changes with you, then measure the bill to prove the savings landed. No slideware, real numbers on the next invoice.
A recent example: a health check on a global logistics company's Azure estate identified a 22% cost reduction and found 27% of users holding excessive permissions. Read the HAVI case study.
Questions, answered
Cloud cost optimization FAQ
How much can you actually cut our cloud bill?
It depends on where you are starting, but we have reduced client cloud spend by 50% or more. The first wins usually come from right-sizing and cleaning up idle resources; the larger, durable savings come from commitments and architecture changes. The Health Check gives you a sized estimate before you commit to anything.
What is the Cloud & DevOps Health Check?
It is a fixed-scope review where a senior engineer analyzes your cloud spend and architecture and returns a prioritized plan of savings and improvements. You get a clear picture of where the waste is and what it will take to fix, whether or not you continue with us.
Will cutting costs make our systems less reliable?
No, done right it does the opposite. We review cost, reliability, and security together, so we are not trading uptime for a cheaper bill. Right-sizing and better architecture usually improve performance and resilience at the same time.
Do you only work with AWS?
AWS is our deepest specialty and we are an AWS Advanced Partner, so most cost work happens there. We also work across Azure and GCP. The FinOps discipline, visibility, commitments, right-sizing, and architecture, is the same wherever you run.
Is this a one-time project or ongoing?
Either. Many clients start with a one-time Health Check and cleanup, then keep us on for ongoing FinOps: tagging, budgets, alerts, and monthly reviews so spend does not creep back up. Our 6-month contracts with 30-day cancellation keep it flexible.
Paying more for the cloud than you should?
Start with a cost analysis. We will show you where the waste is and what it is worth to fix, with real numbers, before you commit to anything.