Brian DeVore Consulting
Cloud Cost Intelligence

Your cloud bill is a black box. Let's fix that.

Most growing companies have no idea why their cloud costs keep climbing. We give you full visibility, eliminate waste, and build the guardrails to keep costs predictable as you scale.

Does this sound familiar?

Cloud billing is notoriously opaque. If any of these are true for your team, you're likely overpaying by 20–40%.

Your AWS bill keeps climbing, but you're not sure why

Usage reports are 10 pages of cryptic line items. You know costs are up, but tracing them back to specific features or teams is a full-time job.

No tagging strategy means no accountability

Without resource tagging, you can't attribute spend to teams, products, or environments. Everyone assumes someone else is managing it.

Unused Reserved Instances and idle resources bleeding budget

That EC2 instance from the old project? Still running. Those Reserved Instances from two years ago? No longer matching your actual workloads.

What's included

Concrete deliverables — not vague "advisory" work.

Deep Cost Audit & Savings Roadmap

A premium deep-dive assessment that quantifies baseline savings, commitment and Spot opportunities, retention waste, and broader architectural cost issues in one client-facing roadmap.

Monthly Cost Report

A recurring client-facing monthly report covering spend trends, anomalies, top cost drivers, baseline savings findings, and staged follow-up recommendations.

Cost Anomaly Detection & Alerting

Daily anomaly monitoring against finalized cost data so meaningful spend spikes are caught quickly and investigated before they become billing surprises.

Rightsizing Recommendations

A recurring rightsizing review focused on actionable EC2, EBS, and RDS sizing opportunities, delivered as a report plus staged implementation recommendations.

Reserved Instance & Savings Plan Review

A quarterly commitment review with purchase scenarios, coverage analysis, and staged recommendations for validated Reserved Instance and Savings Plan actions.

Cost Tagging Hygiene Audit

A recurring tagging hygiene audit that identifies missing or empty required tags on cost-relevant resources and groups the remediation work into actionable follow-up recommendations.

How it works

A structured approach, not trial-and-error.

1

Baseline audit

We start with a complete picture: where you're spending, what's wasted, and what's driving growth. Read-only access is all we need.

2

Prioritized savings plan

You get a ranked list of quick wins and structural changes, with estimated savings and implementation complexity for each.

3

Implement and govern

We implement tagging policies, reservation changes, rightsizing, and auto-scaling rules — with full documentation.

4

Monthly review and tune

Every month we review spend trends, confirm savings, and identify the next opportunities as your infrastructure evolves.

What you can expect

Specific, measurable results — not "improved efficiency."

20–35%

Typical first-90-day cost reduction

Most clients see significant savings within the first quarter, without any performance impact.

100%

Resource visibility

Every dollar attributed to a team, product, or environment. No more mystery spend.

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Cost anomaly response time

Automated detection plus a human reviewing alerts means unusual spend gets caught fast.

Who this is for

This service works best for companies in a specific situation. Here's how to know if it's right for you.

SaaS startups post-Series AYou're scaling fast and cloud spend is growing faster than revenue. This is the right time to build cost discipline.
Companies spending $2k–$50k/mo on cloudThere's enough spend to find meaningful savings, but not so much that it's unmanageable.
Engineering teams without a dedicated FinOps functionYou can't justify a full-time cloud economist, but you need the outcome.
Companies preparing for a fundraise or acquisitionUnit economics and operational efficiency matter. Clean cloud spend is a signal to investors.

Pricing

Cloud Cost Intelligence is included in all retainer tiers starting at $1,500/mo. For larger AWS environments or one-time audit engagements, project pricing is also available.

Common questions

Ready to get started?

Schedule a free 30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about your cloud environment.