AWS cost audit · Cambridge
AWS cost audit for Cambridge companies
Cambridge companies — university spinouts, AI labs, biotech platforms — run the most compute-intensive AWS accounts per employee in the UK. Legitimately large bills are exactly where waste hides best: an idle GPU node that would be a scandal in a normal account is a rounding error in a training budget, until someone adds up the rounding errors.
The free scan checks GPU utilisation, notebook uptime and storage tiering — see what’s working versus what’s just on.
Run the free scanThe Cambridge pattern
- →GPU idle time. p- and g-family instances between training runs, notebooks left running over weekends, dev boxes with accelerators "for convenience". GPU idle hours cost more than most companies’ total waste.
- →Experiment debris. Research culture spins up environments per hypothesis. Papers ship, pivots happen, the environments stay — with their storage, pipelines and scheduled jobs still executing for nobody.
- →Datasets without lifecycle. Genomics, imaging and training corpora in S3 Standard indefinitely. Scientific data has genuine retention needs — which Glacier tiers meet at a tenth of the price.
Put numbers on it
Frequently asked questions
Grant and investor budgets fund our compute. Why optimise?
Because runway is runway: every idle GPU-month is a month of experiments not run. Research-funded companies arguably have more to gain — the audit converts waste directly back into compute budget, which is the resource the science actually competes for.
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.