AWS Cost Optimization Assessment – Reduce Cloud Spend 20-40%

If your AWS bill has crossed $15K/month and is climbing faster than your business, you're almost certainly overpaying. Most cloud-native companies leave 25–35% of their AWS bill in idle resources, oversized instances, untiered storage, missed Savings Plan opportunities, and untagged spend. You don't need to migrate, refactor, or commit to anything new to fix this — you need a senior architect to look at your account with fresh eyes.

The Hex Networks AWS Cost Optimization Assessment is a fixed-scope, three-week engagement that delivers a prioritized list of every dollar of waste in your AWS environment, ranked by effort and impact, with a roadmap your team can execute in-house or with our help.

This offer includes:

• Full account scan using Hex Sweeper, our proprietary cloud scanner, plus AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer, and Trusted Advisor data
• Rightsizing analysis of EC2, RDS, EBS, and Lambda with specific instance-type recommendations
• Reserved Instance and Savings Plan modeling based on your actual 12-month usage patterns
• Storage tiering audit across S3, EBS, and EFS with lifecycle policy recommendations
• Idle and orphaned resource report — unused EIPs, unattached volumes, stale snapshots, dev environments running 24/7
• Tagging and cost allocation framework for finance attribution by team, product, or customer
• Executive summary deck with projected annualized savings, effort estimates, and 30/60/90-day implementation plan

Typical engagement: 3 weeks. Week 1: read-only IAM access provisioned, Hex Sweeper scan, baseline analysis. Week 2: rightsizing simulations, Savings Plan modeling, RI strategy. Week 3: roadmap delivery, executive readout, and Q&A.

For one mid-market client (World of Books), this assessment identified $132,000 in annualized savings — reducing monthly AWS spend from $42K to $31K while improving system reliability. Most clients recover the assessment fee within the first 60 days of implementation. We follow AWS Well-Architected Framework cost optimization principles and align with FinOps best practices.