An AWS cost baseline, prioritized actions, and working governance.
Cloud spend becomes difficult to govern when ownership, allocation, commitment coverage, and anomaly detection are incomplete. The accelerator establishes the baseline and identifies the specific resources and operating patterns driving avoidable spend.
The CirOps FinOps Accelerator is a defined 30-day AWS engagement. We establish a cost baseline, prioritize actions, and configure the governance controls approved for this scope.
Cost visibility and governance designed for action.
Baseline
cost allocation and visibility
Priorities
actions ranked by decision value
Governance
ownership and operating controls
Audit scope
The full audit scope
The audit covers visible resource waste plus commitment coverage, allocation gaps, storage lifecycle, data transfer, Kubernetes, and the operating patterns that influence spend over time.
Reserved vs On-Demand Mix
Savings Plan and Reserved Instance coverage gaps create avoidable spend when steady usage remains on on-demand pricing. We model your actual usage patterns and identify where commitment coverage should be extended, reduced, or restructured.
Right-Sizing Across Compute and Database
We identify over-provisioned EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and EKS node groups using utilization data - not guesswork. Recommendations are specific: instance family, size, and projected monthly saving.
Idle and Orphaned Resources
Stopped instances still charging for EBS. Unattached Elastic IPs. Snapshots from workloads retired six months ago. Load balancers with no targets. We surface these and quantify the ongoing cost.
Data Transfer Costs
Cross-AZ, cross-region, and internet egress charges are frequently invisible until they appear on the bill. We map your data flows and identify architectural patterns that are costing more than necessary.
Storage Tier Mismatches
S3 objects that never graduate to Infrequent Access or Glacier. EBS volumes running gp2 where gp3 delivers more performance at lower cost. We audit storage spend tier by tier.
Third-Party Licensing and Marketplace Charges
Unused or duplicate SaaS subscriptions billed through AWS Marketplace, forgotten AMI licensing charges, and software license optimization.
What you receive
Deliverables at day 30
Cloud Cost Report
A full breakdown of your current spend, waste sources, and savings opportunities - organized by impact and effort. Includes annotated Cost Explorer views and service-level attribution.
Immediate Quick Wins List
Prioritized actions for your team to review after handover: idle resources, commitment options, right-sizing candidates, and storage lifecycle changes. Each item includes assumptions, expected effect, and required approval.
Cost Governance Framework
Approved budget thresholds, anomaly alerting, allocation rules, and account-level guardrails configured in AWS Cost Management, with designated owners and a documented review cadence.
Tagging Policy and Enforcement Playbook
A tagging taxonomy designed for your team's structure, with a step-by-step guide to enforce it - including AWS Config rules and tag policy enforcement at the organization level.
Engagement outcomes
Results that hold
Targeted
Cost-reduction opportunities identified and prioritized through the engagement
30
Day fixed sprint. Clear start. Clear deliverables. Clear end.
AWS Advanced Tier Partner status reflects our AWS relationship. The Accelerator uses a documented baseline, approval, implementation, and measurement process specific to the environment in scope.
Process
Four steps. Thirty days.
Discovery + Access
We scope the AWS engagement and agree on access requirements. Read-only access to AWS Cost Explorer and billing reports is used for the assessment phase; no production workload access is required for that audit.
Audit
Our team runs a full spend audit using AI-assisted pattern analysis across every cost dimension in scope. We surface waste you've seen, waste you haven't, and structural patterns that will continue to drive cost if left unaddressed.
Findings Report
We deliver the Cloud Cost Report with annotated findings, prioritized savings opportunities, and the quick wins list. We walk you through it - no unread PDF delivery.
Governance Setup
Governance configuration uses separately approved, scoped write access and your change controls. We configure the approved budget alerts, anomaly rules, allocation policy, and guardrails; resource and commitment changes remain recommendations unless implementation is separately authorized.
Free resource
Not ready to request yet?
Start with the Cloud Cost-Leak Checklist, a structured list of the cloud spend categories included in a CirOps audit. Use it to run your own first pass before we talk.
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AI-assisted cost analysis, reviewed by engineers
The gap between an internal cost review and a CirOps FinOps Accelerator is not just bandwidth, it is tooling and pattern recognition.
Our engineers run AI-assisted spend pattern analysis throughout the engagement: anomaly review across the available AWS billing data, pattern analysis against known cost drivers, and engineer-reviewed flags for configurations that warrant investigation.
This surfaces findings that manual review, even by skilled engineers, routinely misses. It is standard practice on every engagement, not an add-on.
How we use AI in our engineering work →Frequently asked questions
Find out exactly where your cloud spend is going
Request a no-cost Cloud Architecture Review. We look at your infrastructure, identify the highest-impact cost issues, and give you a clear picture of what the FinOps Accelerator would find - before you commit to anything.