costops.cloud
Cloud cost engineering

Pay for what you actually use.

AWS bills get out of hand fast. CostOps is what I call the discipline that brings them back — finding the waste, fixing the architecture that produced it, and putting guardrails in so it doesn't come back next quarter.

What I work on

A focus on the engineering side of FinOps — the changes that make the bill structurally smaller, not the dashboards that just visualize it.

AWS cost audits

End-to-end review of an account: idle resources, oversized instances, untagged spend, retention overrun, undeleted backups.

Architecture for cost

Rearchitect the parts that drive 80% of the bill — usually data transfer, storage tiering, log ingestion, and the wrong compute primitive.

FinOps tooling

Cost allocation, anomaly detection, RI/Savings Plan strategy, automated rightsizing — built on what's already in your stack, not another vendor.

Platform engineering

Terraform, IaC patterns, and CI guardrails so cost-aware defaults are the path of least resistance for every team.

How an engagement works

Short, scoped, outcome-oriented. No retainers that drag on for months.

1. One-week audit

Read-only access to your AWS org. Output: a ranked list of fixes with estimated $/month impact and engineering effort.

2. Fix the top 3

I implement the highest-ROI changes alongside your team. PRs you can review, not slides you have to act on.

3. Hand off

Documentation, dashboards, and the playbook so your team can run cost reviews without me on the next quarter.