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.
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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.
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Prices checked against AWS list rates on 2 August 2026. AWS changes prices; treat every figure here as a close approximation rather than a quote.
£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.