What could you actually cut from your AWS bill?

Four questions. No account, no card, and nothing to install in your AWS console. You will get a range rather than a number, because anyone giving you a precise figure without reading your account is guessing at you.

Last month's invoice total is close enough.

How much of your compute is on Savings Plans or Reserved Instances?
When did anyone last go through the bill properly?
What does the bill mostly go on?

Recoverable, roughly

$832 to $1,664

per month, about £649 to £1,298

10.4% to 20.8% of your bill. Over a year that is $9,984 to $19,968.

Savings Plans on uncovered compute$720

45% of the bill is compute, 100% of it uncovered, at the 1 year, no upfront rate of 20%

Non-production instances running overnight$504

20% of compute assumed non-production, 70% saved by a nights and weekends schedule

gp2 volumes moved to gp3$120

50% of block storage assumed still on gp2, 20% cheaper on gp3

Orphaned volumes, snapshots, AMIs and idle load balancers$320

4% of spend at full neglect, scaled by how recently you last looked

The low figure is half the high one, because in practice not every opportunity applies to every account. This is arithmetic on your four answers, not a measurement. Our own account came in at 3.4%, which you can read in full.

At this spend the guarantee threshold is $650 a month. The conservative figure clears it, so an audit would be covered by the guarantee.

Want this with the working shown?

We will email the breakdown, line by line, so you can check the arithmetic against your own bill. No account, no AWS access, and we do not pass your address to anyone.

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Where these numbers come from

The rates are the same ones our scanner applies to real accounts. A one year no upfront Compute Savings Plan is 20% off on demand. Moving a gp2 volume to gp3 is 20% cheaper for identical performance at typical sizes. Putting a dev box on a nights and weekends schedule cuts about 70% of its hours. None of that is our opinion, it is AWS pricing.

What we cannot know from four answers is how your bill splits, so we assume a split and let you change it. Everything else follows from the arithmetic, which is printed next to each line rather than hidden behind a total.

If you want to see what the real thing produces, here is a complete scan of our own account, including the part where it found too little to justify hiring us.

Who you are dealing with

We are aware that a website asking about your AWS account, with no name attached to it, looks exactly like the thing your security training told you to close. So here are the details you would need to check us out, and the two pages that let you judge the work before you talk to anyone.

The company

Registered name
Framz Limited
Incorporated
Registered in England and Wales, 2024
Registered office
1 Glamorgan Close, Mitcham, CR4 1XG, United Kingdom

How to reach us

Parent site
framz.io

Judge the work first

Neither of these asks you for anything.

We have no client testimonials on this site because we have not finished a paid audit yet. When that changes we will put the names here with permission. Until then the scan of our own account is the only evidence we have, so it is the evidence we show.