AWS cost audit · Birmingham
AWS cost audit for Birmingham companies
Birmingham anchors the UK’s largest regional economy — professional services, logistics, retail and a fast-growing digital sector. Its AWS accounts often share a origin story: workloads lifted from a data centre or an MSP contract "temporarily", running lift-and-shifted ever since. Lift-and-shift is where cloud waste is born.
Run the free scan on the migrated estate — lift-and-shift accounts routinely show the biggest first-audit savings.
Run the free scanThe Birmingham pattern
- →Lift-and-shift sizing. Migrated servers arrive sized like the hardware they left — the VM that had 64 GB because the physical box did, faithfully recreated as an r5.2xlarge. Cloud pricing punishes hardware-era sizing monthly.
- →Data-centre habits in the cloud. Always-on everything, capacity bought ahead of need, storage never reclaimed — rational when hardware was sunk cost, expensive when everything meters hourly. Scheduling and rightsizing are the antidotes.
- →Inherited MSP estates. Accounts that passed through managed-service arrangements accumulate each provider’s tooling, agents and monitoring stacks. The contracts ended; their infrastructure often didn’t.
Put numbers on it
Frequently asked questions
We migrated to AWS recently. Too early for an audit?
Post-migration is actually the highest-yield moment: lift-and-shift waste is at its peak before any optimisation pass, and the audit doubles as the modernisation roadmap — what to rightsize, what to schedule, what to move to managed services. The free scan will tell you if the yield is there.
Does the audit require anyone on site?
No — the entire engagement is remote: the scan runs through a read-only role you create in your own account (and delete afterwards), the findings call happens over video, and the report is delivered as a document your team works through. UK hours, UK company, no travel line on the invoice.
£499 fixed. Free scan first. 20%+ found or it’s free.
The scan is read-only — a role you create and delete, no keys shared — and shows your estimated monthly saving before anyone talks about money.