For fintech
AWS cost optimisation for fintech companies
Fintech accounts overspend in a specific way: compliance requirements get applied everywhere instead of where they matter. Production-grade redundancy on development environments, audit logging retained forever in the most expensive tier, encrypted snapshots accumulating unpruned — the posture is right, the placement is not.
The free scan is read-only by construction and flags compliance-relevant resources rather than touching them — see the waste without moving anything.
Run the free scanWhere fintech AWS bills leak
- →Multi-AZ development environments. Multi-AZ databases and redundant NAT gateways make sense in production. On dev and staging they double the cost of environments that could be rebuilt from Terraform in an hour. Compliance rarely requires redundant dev.
- →Audit logs in the wrong tier. FCA-adjacent retention requirements are real — but keeping years of CloudTrail and application logs in CloudWatch at $0.03/GB-month instead of S3 Glacier at ~$0.004 is a 7x overpay on the same compliance outcome.
- →Snapshot mountains. Encrypt-everything policies plus cautious engineers equals snapshots of everything, forever. Encrypted snapshots bill like any other; a data lifecycle policy satisfies auditors and finance simultaneously.
- →Compliance-driven oversizing. "Sized for peak load plus safety margin" at every layer compounds: a 2x margin on compute, database and cache stacks into paying 8x. Compute Optimizer data shows what the margin actually needs to be.
- →Duplicate security tooling. GuardDuty, Config, flow logs, third-party agents — often enabled account-wide multiple times through different initiatives. Necessary tools; unnecessary duplication.
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Frequently asked questions
Can cost optimisation compromise our compliance posture?
Done right, it does not touch it: moving logs to Glacier preserves retention, scheduling dev environments has no production impact, and rightsizing uses AWS’s own utilisation evidence. Every finding in our audit lists its risk level — compliance-relevant resources are flagged, not touched.
Our AWS account has restricted access. How does the scan work?
Everything runs through one read-only CloudFormation role that you create, scope-limit and delete afterwards. No keys leave your account, no console access is shared, nothing is modified. The stack template is public and inspectable before you deploy it.
£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.