Up to 54% Cost Cuts: AWS Cost Optimization by Opinov8

How Opinov8 turned a decade of organic AWS growth into a fully costed, secured, and scalable roadmap

AWS Advanced Partner Opinov8

How We Helped the Client Achieve AWS Cost Optimization

A fast-growing SaaS platform is digitizing inspection and survey work across the construction and built environment sector: replacing paper-based processes with tools field teams use to capture, publish, and analyze inspection data in real time. The platform now supports a large and growing base of active users and inspection workflows. Success had a hidden cost: years of infrastructure growth with no one steering.
Industry: ConTech.
Engagement: Fixed-Price.
Benefit: AWS Credits.

The challenge: AWS COST OPTIMIZATION

The platform was stable and the business was growing, but leadership was flying blind on three fronts: cost, security, and readiness for scale.
Rising cloud spend
Data piling up in the most expensive storage tier, all compute running at full pay-as-you-go rates despite years of predictable usage
Security gaps
Access controls unreviewed for years, end-of-life software in production, inconsistent encryption, long-lived over-permissioned credentials
Operational fragility
No Disaster Recovery Plan, no recovery time targets, critical single points of failure
Scalability limits
No auto-scaling on key services, every deployment carried downtime risk
Access to AWS credits for PoC
The bottom line: the business had no way to answer a basic question: is our cloud environment ready for what's next?

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Opinov8 ran a structured, evidence-based assessment across the entire AWS environment — treating infrastructure, security, cost, and operations as one connected system, not four separate audits. Every finding was grounded in live data pulled directly from the environment, not assumptions.
Infrastructure & Architecture Review
Full resource inventory, network topology, and cross-layer dependency mapping
Security & Compliance Review
Access controls, encryption, identity management, audit logging, software currency
FinOps & Cost Analysis
Spend breakdown by service with scenario-modelled savings across storage, compute, databases, and caching
Operational Maturity Scoring
A 12-dimension DevOps health scorecard giving leadership an objective baseline
The output: a four-milestone implementation roadmap — sequenced for fast financial wins first, deeper architectural gains second — executable without touching live customer workloads.

Stack assessed: EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL), ElastiCache, OpenSearch, Bedrock, Transcribe, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF, Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Sentry, EventBridge, QuickSight, GitHub Actions, CloudFormation.

What We Found

Storage costs, unmanaged
The single largest line item in the AWS bill had zero lifecycle controls — data sat in premium-tier storage indefinitely.
100% on-demand compute
Years of stable, predictable usage, and not a single reserved pricing commitment in place.
End-of-life software in production
Running unpatched with no remediation plan.
Infrastructure drift
The Infrastructure-as-Code no longer matched what was actually deployed — recovery risk baked in
Access control decay
Long-lived credentials, unused accounts, and over-permissive IAM policies accumulated over years of no review.

The Solution: A Four-Milestone Roadmap FOR AWS COST OPTIMIZATION

Quick Wins
Storage lifecycle policies, log retention limits, network routing fixes.
Impact: Savings visible in the first billing cycle.
Compute Modernisation
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Impact: Predictable savings, locked in.
Security Hardening
Runtime upgrades, encryption, IAM review, credential rotation.
Impact: Closed exposure, tightened access.
Platform Modernisation
ECS containerisation (POC delivered), auto-scaling.
Impact: Scalability headroom for future growth.

Projected savings

Up to 54% less on storage costs
lifecycle policies, highest ROI, no architecture change needed
Up to 24% less on compute (EC2)
Savings Plan + instance upgrade + storage migration
Up to 40% less on databases (RDS)
Reserved Instance pricing + storage migration
Up to 45% less on caching (ElastiCache)
Reserved node pricing + instance upgrade
Up to 40% less on compute, post-ECS migration
Container-level auto-scaling vs. manual management
Up to 25% less on the total AWS bill: consolidated billing + advanced discount management
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VALUE DELIVERED: AWS COST OPTIMIZATION

- Leadership-ready visibility into cloud health: what's working, what's at risk, where money leaks, for the first time.
- Benchmarked DevOps maturity score across 12 dimensions to track progress against.
- Prioritised risk register: every gap severity-rated and mapped to a concrete fix.
- Scenario-modelled savings so leadership could see the ROI before funding the work.
- Working ECS proof-of-concept, built in the client's own tooling, ready to use as a migration template.
- A phased roadmap the internal team can run with Opinov8 on standby to help deliver.

up to $25,000 in AWS credits to support your Proof of Concept

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Opinov8 is an AWS Advanced Partner and was selected as The Best Software Development Agency and Best AI Company in Europe by The Netty Awards.
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