For CEOs and founders Fund your next product with money you're wasting today.
Sherpa is an AI platform for AWS. It identifies the resources you pay for but don't use, puts a dollar value on each saving and prepares your accounts for enterprise security reviews, without adding headcount.
What percentage of our AWS spend is wasted?
28% — $9,840 a month.
| What | Count | Monthly cost | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oversized servers | 12 | $5,310 | resize |
| Servers idle nights and weekends | 8 | $3,224 | schedule |
| Unattached storage volumes | 19 | $1,240 | delete |
| Idle load balancers | 4 | $66 | delete |
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 ready are we for SOC 2?
78% of SOC 2 checks pass. 14 to fix.
| SOC 2 checks | Count | Next step |
|---|---|---|
| Passing | 50 | keep |
| Failing | 14 | open the fix in Automate |
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 |
How much could we put back into the business?
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20–30%
what companies that manage cloud costs well cut from their bill.
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1 in 3
IT leaders say more than half their cloud spend is wasted.
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$155K
the FinOps hire you don't need to make, salary and benefits (estimate).
Sources: McKinsey, 2023; VMware Private Cloud Outlook 2025.
On a $100,000-a-month AWS bill, 20–30% is $20,000–$30,000 a month, or $240,000–$360,000 a year, that you can redirect into the product and AI initiatives that drive revenue growth.
Where is our AWS money going?
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Running for nobody.
Storage, load balancers and servers left running after the projects behind them ended, still billed every month.
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Bigger than needed.
Servers and databases provisioned for a peak that never comes, which inflates the unit cost of the workloads they serve.
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Full price for steady use.
Steady workloads billed at on-demand rates, with Savings Plans sized on what you'll spend after the cleanup.
Can the same platform help us sell?
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Win the security review.
Sherpa checks your AWS accounts against SOC 2 and CIS controls, so you know where your security posture stands, and what to remediate, before an enterprise buyer's security review.
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Fewer outages.
With Sherpa Observability turned on, your engineers see which services are slow or failing, with a remediation plan that starts with finding the cause.
Sherpa measures readiness against SOC 2 and CIS controls; it is not an audit, an attestation or a certification.
Get started Start this month.
One-time FinOps Assessment
The Sherpa team analyzes 30 days of your AWS cost and usage, then walks your leadership team through the findings in a readout. A fixed fee from $2,500, set by your monthly AWS spend.
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Connect your AWS account in about ten minutes and ask your own questions about cost, security posture and operations.
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Questions CEOs ask us.
How much can we save on AWS?
Companies that manage cloud costs well cut them by as much as 20–30% (McKinsey, 2023). Sherpa is an AI platform for AWS that calculates your own number, with most of the savings tied to the named resource behind them.
Do we need to hire a FinOps person?
No. Sherpa gives the team you already have the findings, a dollar value on most cost findings and a fix plan for each, so cloud cost optimization becomes part of existing operations rather than a new hire.
How long before we see savings?
Your first cost data arrives within 48 hours of connecting the platform. The One-time FinOps Assessment runs about six weeks from the setup call, including 30 days of data, and ends with an executive readout.
Does Sherpa change anything in our AWS account?
Sherpa never applies a fix. It writes the remediation plan; your team decides what to apply, and when.
What does it cost?
The One-time FinOps Assessment is a fixed fee from $2,500, set by your monthly AWS spend. For the platform, sign up directly or procure it through AWS Marketplace and have it billed through your existing AWS account.