Idle & oversized resources
Instances running around the clock for workloads that don't need them, or sized for traffic you no longer have.
Up to 12% of spend
FREE AWS SAVINGS ASSESSMENT · $5K–$50K/MONTH SPEND
Most AWS Bills Waste 1 in Every 4 Dollars. We'll Show You Exactly Which Ones Are Yours.
Sherpa, our own AWS platform, analyzes your bill. Certified AWS architects rank every finding by dollars wasted and walk you through the fix.
- Wasted cloud spend is now 29% and rising for the first time in five years (Flexera 2026)
- Cost-data access only — we never touch or migrate your workloads
- 10 minutes of your time, no credit card, nothing to install
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- to your report — not months
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- to your report — not months
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Where the money goes
Your AWS bill grows quietly. Waste hides in plain sight.
29%
of cloud spend is now wasted — up for the first time in five years
Source: Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud
AI
workloads are driving the increase, adding spend faster than teams can govern it
Source: Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud
753
cloud decision-makers surveyed for the fifteenth annual edition of the report
Source: Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud
Orphaned storage & snapshots
Unattached EBS volumes, forgotten snapshots, and logs in the wrong storage tier, billing you every month.
Up to 8% of spend
On-demand pricing you've outgrown
Steady workloads still paying full on-demand rates instead of commitment-based pricing that fits your usage.
Up to 10% of spend
Data transfer & egress charges
Cross-AZ chatter, NAT gateway traffic, and egress fees that never show up as a line item anyone owns.
Often untracked
Untagged, unowned workloads
Environments spun up for a test or a demo, never tagged, never shut down, and never allocated to a team.
Untracked by definition
Unused or misaligned commitments
Reserved Instances and Savings Plans bought for a footprint that has since changed shape — paying for capacity you no longer use.
Up to 10% of spend
Do the math
Estimate your savings in ten seconds
Drag to your current AWS spend. We apply a 4–25% savings range: the 4% is your billing discount, guaranteed from the first invoice. The rest is waste we typically recover.
$2,500$50,000+
Potential monthly savings
$1,000 – $6,250
Over 12 months
$12,000 – $75,000
Estimated annual recovery
$75,000
Upper end of the range at $25,000/month. Your real number comes from the assessment.
Where the savings usually come from
Monthly range at $25,000/mo spend
- Idle & over-provisioned compute$340 – $2,125
- Unused commitments & on-demand pricing$260 – $1,625
- Orphaned storage & snapshots$180 – $1,125
- Data transfer & cross-AZ traffic$130 – $813
- Untagged / unowned resources$90 – $563
These categories describe recovered waste, not the billing discount, so the split applies to the upper end of the range. Category mix is typical, not guaranteed — your assessment returns the actual split for your account.
Estimate only, for illustration. The 4% floor is your contracted billing discount. Everything above it derives from third-party cloud waste research (Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud) and is not a guarantee of savings.
AWS pricing has hundreds of moving parts — instance families, storage tiers, commitment structures, data transfer rules. If no one on your team owns cloud costs full-time, no one is catching these. That's exactly what the assessment is for.
How it works
Free. Secure. Done in days — not months.
- 1
Deploy one template
You run a single CloudFormation template — about 10 minutes. It creates a cost-data export, an S3 bucket to hold it, and a role scoped to billing data only. Nothing touches a running resource.
- 2
Sherpa runs the assessment
Sherpa, our own AWS platform, analyzes your services, usage patterns and pricing models and produces the findings. Certified AWS architects then review that output line by line.
- 3
Get your Savings Report within days
A prioritized, plain-English action plan: what to fix, why it's costing you money, and what to tackle first. Yours to keep, whether or not we ever work together. Want help implementing it? We can talk after you've seen the findings.
10 minutes to start · cost-data access only · report within 2 business days.
AWS Savings Report
Prepared by HiveTek · Sample layout
The deliverable
What you walk away with
- Cost and usage overview
- Itemized waste findings
- Right-sizing recommendations
- Pricing-model recommendations
- Prioritized 30-day action list
- Walkthrough call with a certified AWS architect who reviewed your findings
Credentials
Why teams trust HiveTek with their AWS environment
5
AWS validations
Advanced Tier, WAFR, Control Tower, AI Services, OpenSearch Service Delivery
10 min
To get started
One CloudFormation template, scoped to cost data
2 days
Report turnaround
Business days from access granted to findings in hand
$5K–$50K
Monthly spend fit
Built for teams spending this per month on AWS
AWS Advanced Tier Partner — vetted directly by AWS
Certified AWS Solutions Architects perform every assessment
Cost-data access only — no passwords, no root credentials, nothing that touches a running resource
NDA available on request
HiveTek was founded and is run by former AWS engineers and solutions architects. We work as an extension of your team — senior AWS expertise on demand, without the cost of a full-time cloud hire.
Fit check
Is this assessment right for you?
Here's who gets the most out of it — and who doesn't.
A strong fit if…
- Spending roughly $5K–$50K/month on AWS
- No dedicated cloud or FinOps owner in-house
- Bill climbing faster than usage or revenue
- Engineers shipping features, not tuning instance families
Probably not a fit if…
- You already run a staffed, full-time FinOps practice
- You're spending under $5,000 a month on AWS
- You already have a dedicated FinOps or cloud operations team with capacity to do this work
- You can't give us access to your billing data in any form
Not sure which side you're on? and we'll tell you honestly before you grant any access.
What happens next
Exactly what to expect after you submit
No black box, no drawn-out sales cycle. Here is the full timeline, start to finish.
Within 1 business day
We confirm your request
A certified AWS architect — not a sales rep — replies with a short scoping note and the CloudFormation template.
Day 1–2
You deploy the template
About 10 minutes. It creates a cost-data export, an S3 bucket, and a role scoped to billing data. No agents, no scripts, nothing that touches a running resource.
Within 2 business days of access
Your Savings Report lands
Sherpa produces the findings and a certified AWS architect reviews them: itemized waste, right-sizing and pricing-model recommendations, and a prioritized 30-day action list. Yours to keep.
Scheduled separately
Architect walkthrough
The architect who reviewed your findings walks you through them and proposes a plan. Implement in-house or with us — no pressure either way.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Find out what your AWS bill should be.
Free assessment. Real findings. No obligation.
- No credit card, no contract
- Cost-data access only, removable any time
- Report and walkthrough call are yours to keep
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4 quick fields, under a minute. Reviewed by a certified AWS architect.