AWS cost Stop paying for AWS you don't use.
Sherpa is an AI platform for AWS. It finds the idle, oversized and outdated resources inflating your AWS bill, prices each one in monthly dollars, and gives your engineers the change to make, so cloud cost optimization no longer depends on a dedicated FinOps team.
What's idle, and what's open to the internet?
$1,240 a month idle. 3 security groups open to the internet.
Idle
| What | Count | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Unattached storage volumes | 14 | $736 |
| Idle load balancers | 1 | $412 |
| Idle servers | 1 | $92 |
Open to the internet
| Security group rule | Count |
|---|---|
| SSH (port 22) from anywhere | 2 |
| RDP (port 3389) from anywhere | 1 |
What went up in the last 30 days?
Up $5,550 on the 30 days before.
| Service | Change |
|---|---|
| Amazon EC2 | +$3,410 |
| Data transfer | +$1,260 |
| Amazon RDS | +$880 |
How much should we commit to Savings Plans?
$18.40 an hour, 1 year, saves $6,120 a month.
| Plan | Commitment | Monthly saving |
|---|---|---|
| Compute Savings Plan | $14.20 an hour | $4,730 |
| Database Savings Plan | $4.20 an hour | $1,390 |
Which servers could we resize this month?
23 servers, $4,870 a month.
| Workload | Count | Monthly saving | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| EC2 instances one size too big | 15 | $3,140 | resize |
| EC2 instances (m5 → m7g) | 8 | $1,730 | open the plan |
Why does our AWS bill keep growing?
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1 in 3
IT leaders say more than half their cloud spend is wasted.
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20–30%
what companies that manage cloud costs well cut from their bill.
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No. 1
cutting waste is FinOps teams' top priority.
Sources: VMware Private Cloud Outlook 2025; McKinsey, 2023; FinOps Foundation, State of FinOps 2026.
AWS spend grows with every new workload and account, yet most companies on AWS have no FinOps team reviewing it, so waste builds up between budget cycles.
Where is our AWS money leaking?
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Running for nobody.
Unattached storage volumes, idle load balancers and servers left running through nights and weekends, each still billed every month.
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Bigger than needed.
Servers, databases and storage provisioned for a peak that never arrives, so you pay for capacity your workloads don't use.
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Older and pricier.
Workloads that would cost less on newer instance types (Graviton), newer storage (gp3), or database engine versions that avoid AWS extended-support fees.
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Full price for steady use.
Savings Plans commitments you can size on your spend after the planned cleanup, rather than on today's inflated baseline.
Container workloads are covered too: Sherpa finds idle EKS and ECS clusters and oversized ECS and Fargate tasks.
What does a fix look like?
Unattached storage volume vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8 · unattached · $86 a month.
aws ec2 create-snapshot --volume-id vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8 --description "Before delete"
aws ec2 delete-volume --volume-id vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8Sherpa never applies a fix; your team does.
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See it.
The affected resource, its current monthly cost and the saving your team captures by acting on it.
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Decide.
Resolve or dismiss each finding, and Sherpa keeps the decision on the finding so it stays on record for later review.
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Apply it.
Your engineers receive the remediation as steps, AWS CLI commands, and CloudFormation or Terraform. Sherpa never applies a fix; your team does.
Sherpa tracks your savings each month, recommended against realised, so finance can report delivered results alongside the plan.
What is 20–30% worth on our bill?
On a $100,000-a-month AWS bill, 20–30% is $20,000–$30,000 a month, or $240,000–$360,000 a year.
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For the CFO: stronger gross margin and clearer unit economics, with each saving tied to a monthly dollar value finance can report.
For CFOs → -
For the CEO: capital to fund the next product or AI initiative, without a $155K FinOps hire (salary and benefits, estimate).
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One-time FinOps Assessment
The Sherpa team analyzes 30 days of your AWS cost and usage, then presents the findings and their monthly value to your leadership team. From $2,500, set by your monthly AWS spend.
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AWS cost questions we get asked.
How much can we save on AWS?
Companies that manage cloud costs well cut them by as much as 20–30% (McKinsey, 2023). Sherpa calculates your own figure, resource by resource, within days of connecting your AWS organization.
What AWS cost problems does Sherpa find?
Sherpa is an AI platform for AWS. It finds idle resources, overprovisioned servers, databases and storage, workloads that would cost less on newer instance types or storage, and steady usage still billed at on-demand rates. It prices each one in monthly dollars and gives your team the change to make.
Where does Sherpa get our cost data?
Sherpa analyzes your AWS Cost and Usage Data, plus CloudWatch utilization data once you enable it. Your first cost data arrives within 48 hours of connecting.
Do we need a FinOps team to use Sherpa?
No. Sherpa gives your existing engineering team the findings, the monthly dollar value of each and the remediation, so cloud cost optimization runs without a dedicated FinOps hire.
What doesn't Sherpa do?
Sherpa never applies a fix or purchases Savings Plans on your behalf; it shows what to change or buy, with the steps, and your team acts on it. It also supports AWS only.
What does the FinOps Assessment cost?
The assessment carries one fixed fee, set by your average monthly AWS spend: $2,500 for $5K–$25K a month, $5,000 for $25K–$100K, $10,000 for $100K–$250K, and custom above that.