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Value-Added Billing
Your AWS spend deserves an expert.
A FinOps engineer costs $155,000/year. We do that work — and it costs you nothing.
How it works
We take this on in three steps
Free assessment
What you do
Deploy one CloudFormation template. About five minutes. It creates a billing export, an S3 bucket to hold it, and a role scoped to cost data — nothing that touches a running resource.
What you get
- A written analysis of your account, in your inbox within two business days
- Where your money is going, and what would change it
- Yours to keep either way
Value Added Billing
What you do
Join our AWS resale program. Your AWS account, your Organization and your root access stay where they are.
What you get
- 4% off your invoice month to month, or 6% on a twelve-month term
- A FinOps review twice a year
- A Well-Architected Review once a year
- One proof of concept on any AWS service
- On the twelve-month term, we buy and manage your Savings Plans and Reserved Instances to keep coverage at maximum
Add what you need
What you do
Ask us, once billing is running.
What you get
- Partner-Led Support at 5.5% of your AWS spend — the same 24×7 coverage, at a lower rate than AWS Business Support costs at your size
- Direct access to Sherpa, available to VAB customers at a discount
- Professional services to carry out what the reviews find
Your cost data, and nothing else
The role reads your billing data and switches on AWS's own cost-optimisation features so the analysis has something to work from. It cannot read your application data or secrets, and cannot touch any running resource — you can review it in the template. Delete the stack and both our access and everything it created are gone.
What the discount looks like
Move the slider to your spend
$600,000 a year at AWS published rates
Month to month · 4%
$2,000 / month off
$24,000 estimated over a year
Twelve-month term · 6%
$3,000 / month off
$36,000 estimated over a year
Illustrative. The discount applies to your usage at AWS published rates. Savings found in the reviews are on top of these numbers.
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Get your free AWS assessment
Tell us about your AWS environment. The CloudFormation template appears on the next screen and lands in your inbox, so you can read it before you deploy anything. About five minutes to deploy, a written analysis back within two business days, yours to keep either way.
- The form takes two minutes — nothing starts until you say so
- The assessment is free and yours to keep, with no obligation to go further
- Scoped to cost data only, and deleting the stack removes it
Questions worth asking
Value Added Billing is an arrangement where HiveTek becomes the company that invoices you for AWS, instead of AWS invoicing you directly. It is a billing change, not a technical one — it runs on AWS Billing Transfer, between two management accounts. HiveTek is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and resells AWS usage at AWS published rates with a discount applied.
Your AWS Organization, your admin rights and your root account stay with you on your own email domain, and your architecture, workloads and native AWS cost tools are untouched. What changes is that your invoice comes from HiveTek, your rate drops by the agreed discount from the first invoice, and a role scoped to your cost data is added so HiveTek can analyse it. Nothing is migrated, so nothing has to be migrated back if you leave.
HiveTek's free AWS savings assessment works from your AWS Cost and Usage Report and the observed state of each resource — what it costs and how it is configured — across your payer account and every linked account under it. It reports what your usage cost against what you actually paid after credits, what is idle or oversized with a dollar figure per resource, your Savings Plan coverage and expiry date, and what it could not assess and why. You deploy one CloudFormation template, which takes about five minutes, and the written report arrives by the end of the second business day. The report is yours to keep whether or not you go any further.
The assessment is free and carries no commitment. Value Added Billing itself has no fee: your AWS usage is billed at AWS published rates with a discount applied — 4% month to month, or 6% on a twelve-month term — and there is no markup. HiveTek earns a margin from AWS on the billing, and that margin funds the included FinOps and Well-Architected reviews. Add-ons are priced separately, and AWS Marketplace and other third-party charges pass through at cost without a discount.
Value Added Billing is aimed at companies running on AWS at roughly $5,000 to $50,000 a month, with around 30 to 500 employees, in North America. The deciding factor is capacity rather than size — most teams in that range have nobody whose whole job is cloud cost or cloud operations. HiveTek declines accounts below $5,000 a month as a matter of onboarding policy and looks at anything above $50,000 a month case by case. Companies that already run a mature in-house FinOps practice, or that are hiring platform engineers, will usually do better working with AWS directly.
Only to your billing and cost data. You deploy the CloudFormation template yourself, and you can review exactly what it creates before you do: a billing export, an S3 bucket to hold it, and a role scoped to that data. It also switches on AWS's own cost-optimisation data feeds so the analysis has something to work from. It cannot read your application data or your secrets, and it cannot touch a running resource. Delete the stack and the access ends immediately, along with everything it created.
An S3 bucket for your billing export, the export itself, and a role scoped to that data. It also switches on AWS's own cost-optimisation data feeds so the analysis has something to work from. Nothing else, and nothing that touches a running resource.
HiveTek earns a margin from AWS on the billing relationship, and that margin is what pays for the reviews. We only keep earning it if you stay, so finding you savings is how we keep your account.
No. This runs on AWS Billing Transfer, which works between two management accounts. You keep your own Organization and carry on using Control Tower as you do today.
No. Your usage bills at AWS published rates and you can check it line by line. The discount comes off that figure.
Savings Plans and Reserved Instances stay yours and keep applying — nothing is repurchased or cancelled. Any private pricing or EDP agreement you hold directly with AWS needs reviewing before transfer, and we will tell you plainly whether it survives the move.
Send us an email and your invoice goes back to AWS at the end of the month. Nothing has to be moved back, because nothing was moved in the first place.