Over the past several years, Level Up has had the privilege of supporting some of the most forward-thinking organizations in their automation and cloud journeys. Along the way, we’ve seen firsthand how transformative public cloud platforms like AWS®, Azure®, and Google Cloud® can be, unlocking agility, scalability, and speed at a scale that legacy infrastructure simply couldn’t match.
But we’ve also learned something else:
For many organizations, public cloud costs are now growing faster than public cloud value.
The Cloud Cost Question: Are We Really Getting What We’re Paying For?
As public cloud adoption matures, a new round of critical analysis is happening, this time from finance, procurement, and even the boardroom. Organizations are asking hard, necessary questions about the tradeoffs between multicloud OPEX and traditional datacenter CAPEX IT budget models, especially when cloud bills are routinely exceeding forecasts, but with no clear connection to revenue or innovation velocity.
Public cloud isn’t necessarily cheaper anymore (if it ever was). And not every cloud dollar is being spent wisely. The truth is: waste is common. Visibility is fragmented. And org-wide optimization via transfer learning often stalls between siloed teams.
Our Practice’s Mission: Make Cloud Spend Truly Strategic
Building on successful projects, as well as related skills and experience we’ve honed as a consulting team, we’re now formally launching our Executive Cloud Cost Management Practice, a focused offering designed to help you:
- Cut inefficient, even wasteful expenditures without disrupting workflows
- Modernize and reinvest in innovation with the dollars you recover
- Build a culture of cloud cost governance grounded in both accountability and agility
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all tools or blame-shifting audits. We do believe in partnering with engineering, finance, and leadership teams to bring transparency, alignment, and confidence back to cloud spend.
What We Give Our Clients: Clarity. Leverage. Control.
Our Executive Cloud Cost Management practice delivers value across three key phases:
1. Assessment
We analyze your current cloud estate and spending patterns to identify things like hidden inefficiencies, unused resources, misaligned instance types, and data transfer surprises. This is often where we can uncover savings of 20-40%, with zero impact on your Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
2. Optimization
We recommend and can help you implement precise architectural, operational, and purchasing strategies, from Reserved Instances and Savings Plans to storage tiering, serverless shifts, and automated shutoff workflows.
3. Governance
We help you build a repeatable cloud cost governance framework. That means tagging policies, alerts, dashboards, and team enablement, not just saving money once, but embedding efficiency into how you operate in a single cloud today and how you may scale across multicloud environments tomorrow.
Building for a Smarter Future in the Cloud
Our approach is based on deep technical fluency and real-world experience, not just in optimization, but in DevOps automation, information security, and in what it means to become truly cloud-first and cloud-native. That means we don’t just point out any possible overspending, we seek to understand the why, the how, and the risk-reward tradeoffs of every decision, past and future.
Because in today’s competitive business landscape, your cloud spend can’t just be a budget line item. It needs to be an accelerator for revenue growth.
Turn Your Cloud Costs Into Investments
Ultimately, public cloud isn’t just where your workloads run, it’s where your business strategy makes daily contact with reality. Whether you’re looking to free up budget for application modernization, improve margin visibility for your CFO, or simply bring your AWS/Azure bill under control, we’re here to help.
Want to get started?
Show us your public cloud bill. We’ll show you 5 things you probably didn’t know about it: cloudcostmgmt@levelupla.io.
Let’s turn cloud cost into clarity, and clarity into confidence.