Stop Overpaying for
Cloud Infrastructure
Most companies waste 30-40% of their cloud budget on idle resources, oversized instances, and forgotten experiments. We conduct a forensic review of your cloud spend and deliver a prioritized roadmap that cuts costs without touching performance or reliability.
What You Walk Away With
Tangible artifacts and recommendations — not a 90-page deck that collects dust.
Cloud Spend Audit Report
Line-by-line analysis of every service, instance, and storage volume across your accounts. We flag waste, identify anomalies, and benchmark against industry norms.
Right-Sizing Recommendations
Instance-level guidance on downsizing, scheduling, or eliminating resources — with projected savings for each change and risk assessment.
Reserved Instance Strategy
Custom RI/Savings Plan purchasing plan based on your actual usage patterns, commitment tolerance, and growth projections. No generic calculators.
Cost Governance Framework
Tagging policies, budget alerts, approval workflows, and anomaly detection rules that prevent spend from creeping back up after optimization.
FinOps Maturity Roadmap
Phased plan to build internal FinOps capability — tooling recommendations, team structure, and KPI dashboards your finance and engineering teams can share.
Executive Summary & ROI Model
Board-ready document showing current vs. optimized spend, payback timeline, and ongoing governance costs. Built for CFO-level conversations.
How We Find the Savings
Discovery
Connect to your billing APIs, pull 90 days of usage data, and interview engineering leads about workload patterns and growth plans.
Days 1-3Analysis
Map every resource to its business purpose, identify orphaned assets, model right-sizing scenarios, and calculate RI/SP opportunities.
Days 4-7Recommendations
Deliver prioritized actions ranked by savings impact, implementation effort, and risk — quick wins first, structural changes later.
Days 8-9Governance Design
Build tagging standards, budget policies, and automated alerts that keep spend visible and accountable across teams.
Day 10Handoff & Support
Walk your team through every recommendation, answer questions, and provide 30 days of async support during implementation.
Days 11-14Your Cloud Bill Is Higher Than It Needs to Be
Most teams find six figures in annual savings within the first engagement. Let's see what yours looks like.
Schedule Free ConsultationWho This Engagement Serves
Cloud cost optimization delivers the biggest impact for these profiles.
Scale-Ups Hitting $50K+/Month in Cloud
You grew fast and your infrastructure grew faster. Now the bill is a line item the board asks about every quarter.
Most CommonFinTech Companies Under Margin Pressure
Transaction-heavy platforms where infrastructure cost directly erodes unit economics. Every dollar saved drops straight to the bottom line.
FinTechEngineering Teams Without FinOps Expertise
Your engineers are great at building product but nobody owns cloud spend. Costs drift upward and nobody notices until the quarterly review.
Org GapCompanies Preparing for Due Diligence
Investors and acquirers scrutinize infrastructure efficiency. Clean cost governance signals operational maturity and protects valuations.
M&A / FundraiseWhy Teams Trust OpenMalo on Cloud Costs
We've optimized cloud spend for payment processors, lending platforms, and high-growth SaaS — we know where the waste hides.
Get Your Cloud Cost Assessment
Share a few details about your setup and we'll come back with a preliminary savings estimate — no commitment required.
42% Cost Reduction for a Payments Platform
Cloud Optimization at QuickSettle
QuickSettle was spending $127K/month on AWS with no visibility into which services drove costs. We mapped every resource to a business function, eliminated $38K in waste, and built governance that kept savings permanent.
Fast growth, zero cost visibility
QuickSettle scaled from 500K to 3M daily transactions in 18 months. Infrastructure was provisioned in a hurry — oversized RDS instances, forgotten dev environments, and no tagging standards made the bill impossible to attribute.
Our Approach: Two-week engagement: billing API audit, resource-level utilization analysis, RI purchasing plan, tagging policy rollout, and CloudWatch budget alarms — with a 30-day follow-up to verify sustained savings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Read-only access to billing and usage APIs. We never need write access or the ability to modify your infrastructure. Most clients create a dedicated IAM role with billing:View and cost-explorer:Read permissions.
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