01 · The starting point
A bill that looked normal on the invoice.
Nobody was reading it line by line. The platform worked, so the bill was just paid.
$0Infrastructure bill
We untangle technology for finance firms.
Here’s how we cut one client’s AWS bill by 91% in six months.
An enterprise data and research company whose customers include Fortune 500 companies, governments, NGOs and leading universities.
02 · Audit
Every line read. The waste added up fast.
Our AWS cost audit looked across the whole stack to understand the estate, from cloud accounts to code, pipelines and infrastructure state. Then we read the invoices line by line, not the console summary.
- AWSaccounts & bills
- GitHubrepos & pipelines
- Terraforminfrastructure state
- +And the restmonitoring, data & access
Where the money wentAnnual cost, from the invoices
- Never used$27,720
- Text-to-speech nobody usedAWS · AI$16,020
- 17 orphaned load balancersAWS · Networking$4,212
- Old environments and snapshotsAWS · Compute & storage$7,488
- Left running$5,676
- Always-on Lambda capacityAWS · Compute$5,676
- Doubled up or oversized$4,692
- Duplicate security servicesAWS · Security$2,928
- Oversized database and containersAWS · Database$1,764
Total$0
Only $3,778 a year was doing real work.
03 · Define
It wasn’t only the bill.
The tangle that inflated the bill was also slowing the team down. Each finding came with evidence and a ranked plan, agreed before anything changed.
Technical debt
RiskFlaggedInfrastructure records hadn’t matched production since 2023, and a merge could change production unchecked.Guard restored. The rest documented and flagged.
Complexity
RiskFixedA retired staging account, three old app environments and an unused workload, all still billing.All removed. One lean production estate.
Velocity
RiskFixedEvery deploy started by hand, and one region’s deploy job had failed 27 of its last 30 runs.Failing job taken out of the release path.
What changed
A smaller, documented platform the team understands. Engineers build instead of babysitting.
5legacy environments removed
17orphaned load balancers removed
04 · Implement
Month by month, the cost came down.
We removed what wasn’t used, closed the leaks and right-sized the rest, checking every estimate against the next invoice.
April$41,157
Annualised from each month’s invoice, 2026
05 · The result
A tenth of the bill. The same platform.
Same customers, same workload, and a team building instead of babysitting.
0%lower infrastructure bill
April$41,157
September$0
$0saved
0×the original target
0months, start to finish
Savings against the target
Target $7,600Achieved $37,400
Who we work with
Built for finance firms that want technology to be an edge, not a burden.
Hedge funds
Research and trading platforms where every dollar of cloud spend should earn its place.
Quantitative trading firms
Compute-heavy estates where idle capacity and data sprawl add up fast.
Private-credit managers
Lean teams running deal, portfolio and reporting systems that grew in a hurry.
Specialist asset managers
Platforms built up over years, with costs and risks nobody has mapped.
Enterprise data companies
Like our case-study client: data platforms serving demanding enterprise customers.
Your firm?
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