Cut your AWS bill — and close the security holes
The issue. Two costly problems hide in most cloud accounts. First, waste: servers bill 24/7 even though they're used maybe a third of the week — industry surveys peg about 27% of the average cloud bill as pure waste. Second, exposure: small cloud accounts often have nobody watching them, and attackers now use AI to find and break into weak setups automatically, fast and cheap. Small-business cyberattacks nearly doubled in 2025.
What we did. We took a real cloud account and fixed both. On cost, we set servers to run only during business hours — automatically, safely, holiday-aware, with alerts if anything fails — cutting the running cost of the heaviest machines by about two-thirds. On security, we reviewed the whole account and closed the gaps that get people breached: turned on the audit log so a break-in can actually be seen, put a second lock on admin access, got real passwords out of plain-text files, and made the backups tamper-proof — all in prioritized waves, riskiest holes first.
The benefits.
- A visibly smaller cloud bill — money back every month, for machines that were idle anyway.
- Someone finally watching the account, so a breach can't go unnoticed.
- The cheapest, highest-impact security fixes done — mostly settings, not rebuilds.
- One partner covering both the waste and the risk, in plain English.
If your cloud bill feels high and you're not sure who'd notice a break-in, that's exactly what we fix.
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