Cloud Cost Optimization from EPI-USE has saved us a considerable amount of time, cost and hassle. They have given us excellent advice and guidance. We particularly like the user-friendly reports, so we can see the savings.
AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP)
Cloud Cost Optimization
Agentic FinOps for AWS. Agents analyze your spend every hour. Named specialists approve. The savings are carried out.
01Cost allocationWhere the money goes
02AnalyticsWhy the number moved
03OptimizationWhat comes out
04GovernanceWho approved it
05Agentic FinOpsRunning every hour
The problem
Your AWS bill gives you the numbers. Not the answers.
Four questions sit behind every bill.
Monthly billExample
$482,320
MarAprMayJunJulAug
Why did spend go up?
Where is the waste?
Who owns it?
Will the forecast hold?
What we manage
Six things we run for our clients,
Six things we run for our clients,
every month.
- VisibilityOne trusted view, with showback across every account, business unit, and product.
- OptimizationWaste found and removed continuously, not in a one-off sweep.
- CommitmentsSavings Plans and Reserved Instances: coverage and utilization, managed to expiry.
- ForecastingA number you can present to the board.
- GovernanceTagging policy, budgets, guardrails, and chargeback, so each owner is accountable for their spend.
- Executive reportingFinance, engineering, and leadership reading the same page.
Where this sits
Most organizations
Most organizations
stop at reporting.
You can see the bill.
A dashboard shows what you spent. No one is accountable for changing it.Where most stopYou can explain the bill.
Trends and cost allocation arrive, but the work still queues behind delivery.You can act on the bill.
An operating model with owners, budgets, and a monthly cadence.The bill is managed for you.
Agents watch continuously, specialists decide, and the change is carried out.EPI-USE delivers here
The approach
Agents move at machine speed.
Agents move at machine speed.
People still make the call.
01DetectCost signals, hour by hour
02AnalyzeRoot cause, not symptoms
03RecommendRanked by impact and risk
04ApproveA named specialist decidesHuman
05ActCarried out safely
06ReportSavings realization vs. baseline
A continuous cycle, not a project
What the agents doWatch every account hour by hour, rank what matters, and draft the change.
What our people doJudge the risk, approve or reject, and own the outcome with you.
Human-governed
Nothing reaches your
Nothing reaches your
cloud environment unapproved.
Agents recommend. A named specialist approves. Only then does anything change.
- Telemetry
- Anomaly
- Rightsizing
- Commitment
- Tagging
- Forecast
FinOps specialist
Review · approve
Approved only
Your AWS environment
ComputeDataApplications
Owner accountabilityA named FinOps specialist signs off every change.
Risk checkedEach action carries a performance and availability assessment.
Audit trailFindings, approvals, and changes raised in Client Central.
The operating model
What actually happens,
What actually happens,
and when.
ContinuousWatchAgents ingest billing and utilization data, and flag anomalies and budget variance.Agents
WeeklyDecideSpecialists review the ranked findings and approve the work.Specialists with you
MonthlyReportOne report, three audiences, with savings realization against your baseline.Your account leads
QuarterlyRe-planCommitments, budgets, and targets reset for the next quarter.With your leadership
How progress is measured
One score. Nine signals.
One score. Nine signals.
Every month.
One number for leadership. Reviewed with you every month against the baseline from your first assessment.
Signals that build the score
- Budget variance
- Forecast accuracy
- Savings realization
- Commitment coverage
- Tag coverage
- Anomaly frequency
- Idle spend exposure
- Optimization backlog
- Report freshness
Optimization
Optimize first. Commit last.
Start with the safe savings. Commit only once the baseline is clean.
Phase 1
See and clean
Build visibility, then remove what nobody is using.
01Tagging and cost allocationShowback by business unit and product
02Idle cleanupRemove obvious waste
Phase 2
Optimize
Rightsize and tune what is left running.
03Non-production schedulingStop paying when unused
04Rightsizing and autoscalingMatch capacity to demand
05Storage lifecycleMove data to the right tier
Phase 3
Commit
Lock in the rate, on a baseline that has stopped moving.
06Savings Plans and Reserved InstancesCoverage on a clean baseline
The impact
What lands on the P&L.
20–40%Lower wasteRealized savings and cost avoidance across a managed cloud environment.
3–6×Forecast accuracyBetter than an unmanaged baseline.
HoursNot at month endAn anomaly surfaces within hours, not in the next invoice.
$0No platform feeFunded through the AWS Solution Provider Program, so there is no license line in your total cost of ownership (TCO).
Ranges observed across managed cloud environments · your own baseline sets the target
Why EPI-USE
More than a FinOps platform.
Same data. A different outcome.
A SaaS cost platform
Capable tools. You do the work.
- You configureIntegrations, rules, and reports, set up by you.
- You interpretMake sense of the data in the dashboard.
- You actDecide what to change, and find the time.
- You follow throughDrive the work and track whether it stuck.
EPI-USE Managed FinOps
Expertise, execution, and outcomes, included.
- We operateCertified specialists run it for you.
- We prioritizeFindings ranked by impact and risk.
- We executeChanges carried out, on your approval.
- We track outcomesSavings realization measured and reported each month.
Named ownerOne point of accountability, every month.
Monthly reviewFinance, engineering, and leadership, same report.
No platform feeFunded through the AWS Solution Provider Program.
Client experience
Trusted to hold the number, month after month.
01 / 03
EPI-USE’s Cloud Cost Optimization has significantly enhanced our cost management and operational efficiency. Monthly cost analysis reports provide clear visibility.
EPI-USE has given me the confidence that our AWS cost is what it has to be and that I’m not spending money unnecessarily.
Before you ask
Frequently asked
Frequently asked
questions
What is the difference between cloud cost optimization and FinOps?
Optimization reduces spend. FinOps is the operating model around it: visibility, accountability, forecasting, and governance. We deliver both, because optimization that nobody owns does not hold.
How quickly do clients see savings?
Visibility and tagging within the first month. Low-risk savings between weeks three and six. Commitments follow once the baseline is stable, so you do not lock in a rate on spend that is still moving.
Do we have to move our managed services to EPI-USE?
No, it runs on its own. It is stronger alongside AWS Managed Support from EPI-USE, because the engineers who find savings can also carry out the work.
We already use a FinOps platform. Does this replace it?
Not necessarily. Clients often keep a platform for self-service views and use this service for the analysis, decisions, and execution it cannot carry.
How do you measure success?
Savings realization and cost avoidance, forecast accuracy, commitment utilization, and tag coverage, reviewed monthly against the baseline from your first assessment.
Next step
Find out what your AWS cloud
Find out what your AWS cloud
is leaving on the table.
- Your current position: spend shape, tagging maturity, and where visibility breaks
- Which of the six levers apply, and roughly what they are worth
- A straight answer, including whether you need us at all
We typically respond within one business day, or email aws@epiuse.com.