What is “AWS Cost Optimization”?
AWS is trusted by millions of customers globally, including enterprises, governments, and startups, and is a key driver in the evolution of cloud computing.
Key Features of AWS
- Global Infrastructure : AWS operates across multiple regions and availability zones worldwide ensuring high availabiliyt, low latency and redundancy.
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Wide Range of Services : AWS offers over 200 fully features services, including:
‣Compute: Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda
‣Storage: Amazon S3, EBS
‣Databases: Amazon RDS, DynamoDB
‣AI/ML: Amazon SageMaker
‣Networking: Amazon VPC, CloudFront - Security and Compliance : AWS emphasizes robust security with encryption, compliance certifications, and governance tools.
- Scalability : Easily scale resources up or down based on business needs, optimizing cost and performance.
- Ecosystem : AWS Marketplace and partner networks provide additional tools and support for enterprises.
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Cost complaints
- Reserved Instances Complexity : Long-term commitment savings can be confusing.
- Storage Costs : S3 and Glacier pricing tiers often catch users off guard.
- Complex Pricing : Over 200 services with layered costs
- Idle Resources : Instances left running
- Billing Transparency : Billing breakdowns can be challenging for new users.
- Misconfigured Services : Commong with Auto-Scaling and storage
- Data Transfer Costs : High outbound charges
- Service Dependencies : Services depend on others
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Why These Complaints Persist :
Service Complexity
Cloud providers frequently update services, making pricing difficult to track.
Lack of Cost Visibility
Without robust cost management tools, businesses struggle to monitor expenses.
Pay-as-You-Go Models
While flexible, these models can generate unexpected bills due to usage spikes.
How We Assist You :
See the Bigger Picture
We start with a holistic cloud cost analysis, uncovering hidden expenses and areas of inefficiency across your cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
Strategize Smarter
With insights in hand, we design a tailored roadmap to maximize savings through :
◦ Right-Sizing Resources : Eliminate waste by aligning resources to actual demand.
◦ Smart Commitments : Leverage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, or hybrid benefits to lock in long-term savings.
Automate for Excellence
Reclaim time and resources with intelligent automation tools that handle repetitive cost-management tasks and ensure ongoing optimization.
Real-Time Transparency
Empower your team with dashboards that reveal spending trends, highlight spikes, and offer actionable recommendations—all in real-time.
Optimize Continuously
Cloud cost management isn’t a one-time job. We work with you to implement a culture of continuous optimization, ensuring your cloud environment scales efficiently over time.
Our Cloud cost optimization framework
Cloud FinOps practices need to be implemented by every organization either small or big that utilizes AWS
At Nafkha Consulting, we don’t just optimize your cloud costs; we transform them into a competitive advantage.
Plan
Identify areas for optimization and devise roadmap to achieve efficiencies
• Understand customer financial requirements
• Collect billing, utilization and other documentation
• Identify areas of focus for optimization roadmap
• Finalize roles and responsibilities along with key timelines
Design
Create implementation plan; policies and relevant metrics to monitor cloud usage
• Create tagging schema and implementation plan
• Define usage metrics and alerting mechanism
•Create initial governance policies
• Identify areas for automation and scripting
Discover
Model correct cloud usage based on utilization and consumption patterns
• Collect utilization data to understand usage behavior
• Identify idle resources and waste for deletion
• Identify rightsizing of architecture based on priority
• Identify other consumption trends
Craft
Develop and implement recommendations to reduce cloud spend
• Create optimization roadmap and recs
• Integrate recs with change management policies
•Enact recommendation and track implementation
• Update budget projection and investigate purchase tactic
Stabilize
Continuously monitor cloud spend and maintain the savings realized
• Maintain realized saving
• Utilize potential discounts
• Budget consumption trends and RI management
• Continuous monitoring and usage tracking
• Tagging structure and reporting updates
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What Sets Us Apart?
Cloud FinOps isn’t just about cutting costs—it’s about creating a system that balances agility, scalability, and financial efficiency. Nafkha Consulting brings to bear deep sector and tech experience underpinned by a business-led approach to ensure that the financial management of your cloud ecosystem is viewed holistically—not just through an IT lens.
We work with you to develop a flexible approach to cloud FinOps that fits to address your organization’s current and future challenges and ensures that your cloud spend directly supports your goals without compromise.
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Our Optimization Framework
Results That Matter
With our Cloud FinOps Framework you can gain the ability to more effectively identify, govern, and optimize your cloud spend. The benefits of our Cloud FinOps Framework start almost immediately, and they are impactful and long term. Our services help you :
- Drive cost ownership across business units and improve resource traceability across a multi-cloud environment.
- Gain transparency into spend through cost allocation at resource level, ML-driven predictions for forecasted spend across CSPs.
- Align FinOps maturity journey with business strategy and goals.
- Identify areas where organization can improve cloud efficiency, reduce costs, and better leverage benefits of cloud computing.
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Why work with us
Nafkha Consulting brings unmatched resources and reputation to cloud transformation services. Are you ready to optimize your cloud spend and gain greater ROI from your cloud investments?