Cloud cost is both an engineering problem and a finance problem. We solve both.
CostOps is a senior AWS cost-optimization practice. We negotiate the contract, tune the commitments, and fix the architecture behind the bill, then leave your team the guardrails to keep it down. Fixed price, scoped up front.
Why teams hire us
The bill has two owners. We work for both.
Cloud spend sits between finance and engineering, so cost work only sticks when it makes sense to both sides of the table.
If you own the P&L
Cloud is usually one of your biggest line items after payroll, and savings there are budget you can reinvest in the areas that accelerate growth.
An engagement is a fixed price against a defined scope, and the result shows up in the one place that matters: next quarter's AWS invoice.
What we don't sell: software, seat licenses, or a subscription that outlives its usefulness.
If you own the bill
We're engineers, not analysts. The work arrives as pull requests, Terraform, and commitment models you can rerun, not a slide deck that becomes your backlog.
We build on what's already in your stack, work inside your repos and your AWS org, and document as we go, so your team runs the next cost review without us.
What we do
Rates, commitments, architecture.
Savings come from three places: the rates you pay, the commitments you make, and the architecture you run. We work all three.
Rates
Enterprise Discount Programs, private pricing, and marketplace commitments, negotiated with your usage data in hand. We see a lot of AWS contracts, so we know what good terms look like.
Commitments
Savings Plan and Reserved Instance strategy sized to real usage and rebalanced as it changes, so you stop paying on-demand rates for steady-state load.
Architecture
The design decisions driving most of the bill: data transfer, storage tiering, log ingestion, the wrong compute primitive. We redesign them and help ship the fix.
Every engagement starts with a full cost audit of your AWS org, and ends with the allocation, forecasting, and cost-per-customer reporting your team runs without us.
How we work
Three phases. Priced up front.
Most clients start with the first two and decide on the third once they've watched the savings land on an actual invoice.
Scope
Read-only access to your AWS org and a ranked assessment of where the money is, including your rate and commitment position. Scope and price are fixed before any work starts.
Quick wins & cleanup
The fast, high-ROI fixes: idle resources, rightsizing, commitment strategy, tagging, retention. Savings you can see on the next bill, delivered as PRs your team reviews.
Architectural improvements
The structural work: data transfer, storage tiering, and the right compute primitives. Planned alongside your product roadmap, so the bill stays smaller as you grow.
Team
Who you'll work with.
CostOps is a senior team of consulting specialists. Every engagement is led by a principal engineer who has run production cloud at scale, with bench specialists joining when the work calls for them.
Caleb Hurd
Founder · Principal cost engineerDoes AWS cost optimization at Fortune 500 scale every working day. Started CostOps to deliver the same work fixed-price, for companies that want the fix without a year-long engagement.
Specialist bench
Senior engineers, per engagementPlatform, data, and infrastructure engineers we've worked alongside for years. When a bill needs a specific skill set, you get the right person for it, not whoever happens to be free.
Your team
In your account, with your peopleWe work in your repos and your AWS org alongside your engineers, not off in a vacuum. The goal is to leave your team able to keep the bill down after we've gone.
Think your AWS bill is bigger than it should be?
It usually is. Tell us a little about your AWS footprint and we'll tell you plainly whether there's enough on the table to be worth an engagement, and if there isn't, we'll say that too.
or email solutions@costops.cloud