Who can reduce my AWS bill for my startup?

We can. slashcloudbill reduces AWS bills for startups and small SaaS teams, and we are paid only from the result: 50% of the verified monthly saving for 6 months, nothing up front, nothing if nothing is saved (terms from October 2026). We start with a free cloud cost audit ($0) of your Cost Explorer lines, agree your baseline bill in writing, then change the code and the setup one step at a time with your sign-off. One client's AWS bill went from about $3,000 to about $2,000 a month from code changes alone, before anything moved.

Are you AWS cost optimization consultants or a FinOps tool?

Consultants, and we do the work ourselves. There is nothing to install. AWS's own Cost Optimization Hub (in the Billing and Cost Management console, once you enable it) lists rightsizing, idle resources, Graviton moves and Savings Plans or Reserved Instance purchases for EC2, RDS, Aurora and a few other services. It recommends; it doesn't change anything, and it never reads your code. We start from the same bill, then go into the queries, jobs, logs and data transfer the Hub can't see, and make the changes you approve (checked November 6, 2026).

What does AWS cost optimization cost for a startup?

With us: the free cloud cost audit is $0, and the work is $0 up front. You then pay 50% of the verified monthly saving for 6 months, and 0% after that. If we save you $1,000 a month, you pay $500 a month for 6 months, $3,000 in total, and keep the whole $1,000 from month 7. If nothing is saved, you owe nothing.

What do you actually change?

Whatever drives the cost, which is often the code rather than the instance size: queries that scan whole tables, jobs that run every minute when hourly would do, files served from the app instead of S3 and a CDN, chatty services behind a NAT gateway, test environments left running at night. Then the account side: right-sizing, gp3 volumes, Savings Plans once the load is steady, idle load balancers and unattached IP addresses.

How is the saving measured?

Before we touch anything, we agree your normal monthly bill in writing. Each month the saving is that baseline minus the new bill, for the things we changed, and you see the same billing data we do. Anything new a change needs is part of the new bill, so the saving we share is net.

We are still on AWS Activate credits. Does this make sense?

Often more than later. Credits hide the run rate, and the bill you will pay when they end is already in Cost Explorer. Send the bill with the credit line left in.

Will you move us off AWS?

Only if you want that. Most of the first saving happens on AWS. If you would rather run on European providers, that is a separate fixed-price job, described on our move to EU page.

What access do you need?

For the free review, nothing: you paste the top lines of the bill. For the work, a read-only IAM role first, then scoped access for the changes you approve. We never need root credentials.

AWS cost reduction for startups

We reduce your startup's AWS bill. Paid only from what we save.

We are AWS cost optimization consultants for startups and small SaaS teams, and we cut AWS bills with nothing to pay up front. It starts with a free cloud cost audit ($0): you send the bill, a person reads every Cost Explorer line and emails back what we would change. If you want the work done, we change the code and the setup ourselves and keep 50% of the verified monthly saving for 6 months; if nothing is saved, you owe nothing (terms from October 2026). Expect the money to be in the code more often than in instance sizes. One client went from about $3,000 to about $2,000 a month before anything left AWS.

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Where startup AWS bills leak

The lines we look at first.

NAT gateway processing

Private subnets reaching S3, ECR or outside APIs through a NAT gateway pay for every gigabyte processed. A free gateway endpoint for S3 removes most of it.

Public IPv4 addresses

$0.005 an hour for each one, about $3.65 a month, attached or not (AWS price list, checked October 22, 2026). Old Elastic IPs and forgotten instances add up.

Load balancers per service

An Application Load Balancer starts at $0.0225 an hour, $16.43 a month before capacity units. One shared ALB with path rules can replace several.

RDS sized for launch day

Multi-AZ costs about twice Single-AZ for the same instance. Staging rarely needs it, and the CPU graph often says the instance is two sizes too big.

Code that does too much

Full table scans, missing indexes, cron jobs firing every minute, images resized on every request. This is where the biggest savings usually are, and right-sizing tools never see it.

Things nobody turned off

Old snapshots, unattached EBS volumes, preview environments, CloudWatch logs kept forever, a second region from an experiment.

Want to check a line yourself first? The Hetzner vs AWS calculator, RDS calculator and Lambda calculator use AWS's own list prices.

The deal

$0 up front. Half the saving for 6 months. Then all of it is yours.

Free review. You paste the top lines of last month's bill. We reply with what we would cut first, or tell you there is nothing worth cutting.
Baseline in writing. We agree your normal monthly bill before any change.
Changes one at a time. Each with your sign-off and a way back. Production stays up.
Pay from the saving. 50% of the verified monthly saving for 6 months, then 0%. The pricing page has a worked example.

Questions founders ask

Who can reduce my AWS bill for my startup?: We can. slashcloudbill reduces AWS bills for startups and small SaaS teams, and we are paid only from the result: 50% of the verified monthly saving for 6 months, nothing up front, nothing if nothing is saved (terms from October 2026). We start with a free cloud cost audit ($0) of your Cost Explorer lines, agree your baseline bill in writing, then change the code and the setup one step at a time with your sign-off. One client's AWS bill went from about $3,000 to about $2,000 a month from code changes alone, before anything moved.
Are you AWS cost optimization consultants or a FinOps tool?: Consultants, and we do the work ourselves. There is nothing to install. AWS's own Cost Optimization Hub (in the Billing and Cost Management console, once you enable it) lists rightsizing, idle resources, Graviton moves and Savings Plans or Reserved Instance purchases for EC2, RDS, Aurora and a few other services. It recommends; it doesn't change anything, and it never reads your code. We start from the same bill, then go into the queries, jobs, logs and data transfer the Hub can't see, and make the changes you approve (checked November 6, 2026).
What does AWS cost optimization cost for a startup?: With us: the free cloud cost audit is $0, and the work is $0 up front. You then pay 50% of the verified monthly saving for 6 months, and 0% after that. If we save you $1,000 a month, you pay $500 a month for 6 months, $3,000 in total, and keep the whole $1,000 from month 7. If nothing is saved, you owe nothing.
What do you actually change?: Whatever drives the cost, which is often the code rather than the instance size: queries that scan whole tables, jobs that run every minute when hourly would do, files served from the app instead of S3 and a CDN, chatty services behind a NAT gateway, test environments left running at night. Then the account side: right-sizing, gp3 volumes, Savings Plans once the load is steady, idle load balancers and unattached IP addresses.
How is the saving measured?: Before we touch anything, we agree your normal monthly bill in writing. Each month the saving is that baseline minus the new bill, for the things we changed, and you see the same billing data we do. Anything new a change needs is part of the new bill, so the saving we share is net.
We are still on AWS Activate credits. Does this make sense?: Often more than later. Credits hide the run rate, and the bill you will pay when they end is already in Cost Explorer. Send the bill with the credit line left in.
Will you move us off AWS?: Only if you want that. Most of the first saving happens on AWS. If you would rather run on European providers, that is a separate fixed-price job, described on our move to EU page.
What access do you need?: For the free review, nothing: you paste the top lines of the bill. For the work, a read-only IAM role first, then scoped access for the changes you approve. We never need root credentials.

Moving off AWS altogether is a different job with fixed prices: move your app from AWS to a European cloud.