AWS cost audit · Bristol
AWS cost audit for Bristol companies
Bristol’s tech scene skews technical — aerospace and defence software, semiconductor and robotics spinouts, and a strong creative-agency layer. Engineering-heavy companies build sophisticated infrastructure, and sophisticated infrastructure wastes money in sophisticated ways: compute-hungry simulation environments, CI fleets and data pipelines that outlive their projects.
The free scan reads utilisation across every region and separates working spend from waste — in about 20 minutes.
Run the free scanThe Bristol pattern
- →Compute-heavy R&D leftovers. Simulation runs, hardware-in-the-loop rigs, and analysis clusters sized for a project deadline that passed. Big instances between active workloads are Bristol’s signature idle cost.
- →CI infrastructure for engineering teams. Deep engineering cultures build serious build-and-test fleets — often always-on, x86, and generously sized. Runner fleets are the classic unowned cost: everyone’s tool, nobody’s budget line.
- →Long-lived datasets. Test data, telemetry and simulation outputs accumulate in S3 Standard for years. Data that gets touched annually shouldn’t be priced for millisecond access.
Put numbers on it
Frequently asked questions
Our workloads are genuinely compute-heavy. Will the audit just tell us to use less?
No — the audit separates busy-expensive from idle-expensive using utilisation evidence per resource. Heavy compute that’s working passes; the findings target what’s running without working: idle rigs, oversized runners, untiered archives, and the missing commitment coverage on the steady baseline.
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.