Find out where your AWS budget may be leaking — before paying for a full engagement.
CloudSpend Snapshot is a free, focused AWS cost review designed to identify whether meaningful optimization opportunities exist in your environment. It is not a complete CloudSpend Reset and does not include a full implementation roadmap.
Best suited to production AWS environments where cloud spend is a meaningful operating cost.
Clear scope. No hidden surprises.
The Snapshot tells you whether a meaningful opportunity exists. CloudSpend Reset provides the complete deep assessment and implementation-ready roadmap.
What the Free Snapshot Includes
- Spend Overview: Major AWS service cost distribution, recent spend trend, and obvious concentration areas.
- Initial Optimization Signals: High-level review across EC2, EKS/node utilization, idle resources, EBS volumes, S3 storage, RDS sizing, NAT Gateway data transfer, and Savings Plans/RI coverage.
- Executive Deliverable: Current cost profile, top identified opportunities, estimated potential monthly and annualized savings ranges where reasonably measurable.
- Confidence & Complexity Ratings: Confidence marked as HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW, with implementation complexity rated as LOW, MEDIUM, or HIGH.
- Recommended Next Step: Clear engineering guidance on whether paid assessment or performance implementation is warranted.
What the Snapshot Does Not Include
- Full resource-by-resource remediation plan
- Terraform or infrastructure-as-code implementation
- Architecture redesign or production system modifications
- Savings Plan or Reserved Instance purchases
- Detailed 30/60/90-day execution roadmap
- Ongoing monitoring or remediation scripts
- Production optimization implementation (available in CloudSpend Reset or Performance engagements)
How our cost optimization engagement works.
A phased, transparent process from initial signals to verified savings.
Free Snapshot
Identify whether meaningful AWS savings opportunities exist before spending any budget.
Choose Engagement
Select fixed-price CloudSpend Reset ($3,500) or performance-based optimization.
Implement
Only engineering-reviewed, customer-approved changes are implemented in your environment.
Verify
Savings are measured and validated according to the agreed baseline methodology.
Continue
Optionally transition into ongoing FinOps monitoring via CloudSpend Continuous or PlatformCare.
What would AWS optimization mean financially?
Estimate potential cost reductions based on your approximate monthly AWS spend.
Illustrative scenario only. Actual savings depend on architecture, utilization, commitments, workload behaviour, and approved optimization changes. This calculator is not a savings guarantee.
How savings are verified.
Performance fees apply only to savings measured according to the agreed engagement methodology.
Before implementation begins, Illusio and the customer agree in writing on:
- The baseline period
- Included AWS services and accounts
- Excluded charges (e.g. one-off data migration spikes or third-party marketplace licenses)
- Approved optimization changes
- The verification period
- The method for adjusting for material workload or traffic changes
Estimated savings shown during an assessment are projections and are not guarantees of future AWS spend. Performance fees are calculated only according to the agreed methodology.
Two primary ways to proceed after your Snapshot:
CloudSpend Reset
From $3,500. Best for companies that want a complete independent cost assessment and prioritized, implementation-ready roadmap.
Explore CloudSpend ResetCloudSpend Performance
Performance-based implementation available for qualified environments. Commercial terms and the savings-measurement method are agreed in writing before implementation begins.
Discuss Performance PricingRequest your Free CloudSpend Snapshot.
Tell us about your AWS environment. A senior platform engineer will review your profile and respond within one business day.