AWS cost audit · Edinburgh
AWS cost audit for Edinburgh companies
Edinburgh punches far above its size in fintech and data science — a financial-services heritage, a serious university pipeline, and the scale-up alumni of the city’s travel-tech and payments success stories. The resulting AWS accounts blend two waste patterns: fintech’s compliance-grade defaults and data science’s compute appetite.
Free scan first: read-only, no keys, the estimated saving up front.
Run the free scanThe Edinburgh pattern
- →Financial-grade defaults on everything. Financial-services DNA means redundancy and audit logging get applied by reflex — including to dev environments and internal tools where they double costs for no regulatory benefit.
- →Data-science compute sprawl. Model training, feature pipelines and notebooks accumulate across teams. The pipelines that fed last year’s models keep their schedules; the notebooks keep their instances.
- →Logs kept like ledgers. Retention instincts from regulated industries put years of application logs in CloudWatch at $0.03/GB-month when S3 Glacier meets the same retention at ~$0.004. Same compliance, 7x the price.
Put numbers on it
Frequently asked questions
Parts of our stack are regulated. Can you still audit it?
Yes — the scan is read-only by construction, and findings are ranked with risk levels so compliance-relevant resources are flagged rather than touched. The biggest savings in regulated accounts are usually in the unregulated parts: dev environments, logging tiers and idle compute.
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.