Cloud Cost Reduction Program

The problem

Cloud spend was growing faster than revenue with no clear ownership. Nobody could attribute cost to teams, and there were no guardrails to prevent waste.

What I built

• 1Implemented a tagging strategy and cost allocation across accounts and teams.
• 2Built dashboards exposing spend per service, per team and per environment.
• 3Right-sized compute and storage, then moved stateless workloads to spot and Graviton.
• 4Purchased Savings Plans and Reserved capacity matched to steady-state usage.
• 5Added budget alerts and policy-as-code guardrails to prevent expensive mistakes.

The outcome

Monthly cloud spend fell 38% within the first cycle while reliability was untouched. Teams now see their own costs and the guardrails keep spend aligned to value.