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Audit & Cloud Review · S2B Inc.
AWS discovery audit and Well-Architected-style review for risk, cost, and resilience visibility
Prioritized
AWS risk, cost, and resilience roadmap
Cloud Cost Optimization
Quick Quack: lower AWS costs
Reduced reported AWS spend from about $31k to $25k per month through rightsizing, commitment planning, idle-resource cleanup and storage policies.
Published by ARCOTechnical contact: Islam AliLast updated Client · Quick Quack Car WashSector · Multi-location retail and operations All outcomes
Engagement impact
reported reduction; about $72k annualized
Portfolio-reported monthly spending fell from about $31,000 to $25,000, approximately 19%.
The reported $6,000 monthly reduction is equivalent to about $72,000 annualized if maintained.
FinOps and cloud engineering delivered by Islam Ali for Quick Quack Car Wash.
Reported monthly AWS spend
- Before, approximately
- $31,000
- After, approximately
- $25,000
The portfolio reports a $6,000 monthly reduction, about 19%. That is $72,000 annualized if the saving continues.
These are rounded portfolio figures. The separate March 2025 bill excerpt shows USD 30,234.74; a comparison-period invoice and normalized savings calculation are not published.
01 · Business pressure
What had to change.
Quick Quack Car Wash ran customer and operational systems on AWS. Reported spending had reached approximately $31,000 per month, with limited visibility into its main cost drivers. The work needed to reduce waste while preserving application performance and availability.
Client
Quick Quack Car Wash
Environment
Multi-location retail and operations
Priority
Cloud Cost Optimization
02 · Engineering response
How the team moved from finding to action.
Each workstream was tied to a practical implementation decision and an implementation outcome.
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Built a cost breakdown by service, account and environment.
2
Rightsized over-provisioned compute and databases.
3
Developed a Savings Plans and Reserved Instance strategy for steady workloads.
4
Removed idle volumes, old snapshots, unused IP addresses and load balancers.
5
Scheduled non-production environments to run when needed and applied lifecycle and retention policies to storage and backups.
03 · Published engagement outcome
$6k / month
reported reduction; about $72k annualized
Portfolio-reported monthly spending fell from about $31,000 to $25,000, approximately 19%.
The reported $6,000 monthly reduction is equivalent to about $72,000 annualized if maintained.
The portfolio reports no impact on performance or availability during the engagement.
Capabilities behind the outcome
Technology used
- AWS Cost Explorer
- Compute Optimizer
- Trusted Advisor
- Savings Plans
- S3 lifecycle policies
Evidence behind the work
Project accounts and delivery artifacts supplied by Islam Ali. Open an extract to inspect its detail.
The portfolio reports approximately $31,000 to $25,000 per month, about a 19% reduction. The supplied March 2025 invoice is $30,234.74; it is a baseline artifact, not the exact rounded $31,000 figure or a before/after comparison. No comparison-period invoice or normalized savings calculation is published. $72,000 is the annualized equivalent of a reported $6,000 monthly reduction if maintained.
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