🛋️ AWS cost therapy for businesses spending $10-150K/mo
Been using AWS for years? 🕸️
When's the last time you cleaned house?
300+ services. Years of buildup. Forgotten snapshots, oversized databases, servers running 24/7 for workloads that left at 5pm. 🤷 You've been busy building your business — nobody blames you for not catching it all. That's literally my job.
I dig through the cobwebs, find the garbage you're paying for, and make your AWS not just cheaper — but better. We only charge a % of the savings we find. No savings? No fee. And yes, I'm a real person — not a bot, not a dashboard. Just a guy with 19 years of AWS and opinions about all of it. 😏
15 min call. $99 down payment.
No pitch deck. No discovery phase. Just math.
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What people say after working with David
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"David is a dev genius."
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"David responds quickly and makes sure to explain things as best as possible."
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"David's a commando. He is fast and efficient at getting results."
"Nobody sets out to waste money on AWS. It just happens. You launch fast, you scale fast, and three years later you're paying for infrastructure you forgot existed. That's not negligence — that's just building a business." 🧾
— David, who has found forgotten resources in literally every account he's ever audited
How It Works 🧰
Two calls. One report. Zero PowerPoints. You decide how far to go after you see the numbers. 🤝
🗓️ Intro Call
15 min · $99 down payment · coffee optional but encouraged ☕
You book a call, pay $99, and grant read-only AWS access. We meet, I poke around your account live, ask annoying questions about your business, and make sure I have everything I need to go deep. 🔍
The $99 is a down payment on your 15% audit fee. It's not extra. It just proves you're serious and I'm not auditing someone's personal hobby project. (No offense to hobby projects.)
📋 Exploration Call — The Report
15% of annual savings found (minus your $99, because fair is fair)
I present everything: every waste item, exact dollar amounts, architecture recommendations, and where your tech doesn't match your business. It's like a doctor's visit for your infrastructure, except I have better bedside manner. 📄
- ✅Line-by-line savings breakdown your CFO will actually understand (and maybe frame)
- ✅Architecture recommendations — "this should be serverless" and "this database is 10x bigger than it needs to be" 🏗️
- ✅Implementation guide for your team if you want to DIY (I don't gatekeep) 🛠️
- ✅You keep the report forever. Even if you ghost me. I'll survive. Probably. 👻
- 🎁BONUS: Free AWS security scan — misconfigs, public S3 buckets, IAM roles that shouldn't exist (31 days left!)
Remainder of the 15% fee is due at this call. Your $99 comes right off. Math. 🧮
🔧 The Fix — Implementation
Decided at the exploration call · scoped together like adults
We agree on a timeline, deliverables, and scope before I touch anything. Then I get to work making your AWS account match your actual business. Serverless migrations, right-sizing, Savings Plans — the whole shebang. 💪
- ✅I implement every optimization (you watch, ask questions, or take a nap — dealer's choice 😴)
- ✅Custom timeline and deliverables. No mystery. No "we'll circle back." Actual dates.
- ✅90 days after deliverables, we compare bills. Did the savings actually happen? 📊
- ✅+20% of verified savings due at the 90-day mark. If the savings didn't stick? You owe me nothing. I'll go cry into my own AWS bill. 🤷
35% total max (15% report + 20% implementation). That's the ceiling. There is no "and also this other fee." 🚫
📊 The Proof
+20% of verified annual savings · a.k.a. "show me the receipts"
We pull up your AWS bill. Before. After. Side by side. The 20% is based on actual, verified, no-BS savings — not my projections, not a spreadsheet estimate, not vibes. Real numbers on a real bill. If the savings didn't show up, I don't get paid. That's how confident I am. 💰
🧮 Real Math, Fake Company
A $25,000/mo SaaS company that swore their AWS was "pretty optimized" 👀
💳 When You Pay (with The Fix)
Just want the report? 15% and your team handles it. You keep $91,800 year one. No hard feelings. 💰
🕵️ The Usual Suspects
Decisions that made sense at the time. That time was 2021. It's not 2021 anymore.
👋 Who's poking around my AWS account?
I'm David Plappert — an actual human being with 19 years of AWS experience who will personally dig through your account, read your architecture, and understand your business. 🍱 Not an AI-generated summary. Not a dashboard with traffic lights. Not a junior analyst following a checklist. Me. On a call. With opinions. And a mildly aggressive sense of humor.
I build and run production serverless SaaS at Fortune 100 scale — Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SES, the whole buffet. I know where AWS hides the markup because I've been paying it myself for years. Most cost tools tell you what you're spending. I tell you why your tech doesn't match your business — and I make it not just cheaper, but better. 🎯
Should that EC2 fleet be Lambda functions? (Probably.) Does that RDS instance need to be that big? (It does not.) Is your architecture built for a business model that pivoted two years ago? (Almost certainly.) I ask the questions a dashboard can't. 🤔
I only need read-only access for the scan. 🔒 No write permissions. I can look but I can't touch. Think of it as window shopping your infrastructure. Very judgmentally.
Yes, "Cut My AWS" is a real business name registered with the state of Florida. No, I will not apologize for it. ✂️
❓ Questions you're definitely asking right now
🤔 What if you don't find any savings?
Then you have the most optimized AWS account I've ever seen, and honestly? I'll be impressed. You're out $99. In my career this has happened exactly zero times, but I hear there's a first time for everything. I'll send you a congratulatory email.
🤨 When do I actually pay?
$99 when you book (down payment). Remainder of 15% at the exploration call when you get the report. If you opt for implementation, the extra 20% isn't due until 90 days after deliverables — and only on verified savings. You literally never pay for results that didn't happen. This is the opposite of how consulting usually works, and I'm aware of that. 😅
🎯 Is this just a cost audit or something more?
Way more. Cost tools tell you what you're spending. I tell you why your tech doesn't match your business — and that's where the real savings live. Running servers 24/7 for a workload that spikes twice a day? That's not a billing problem, that's an architecture problem. I'm a serverless architect who happens to also save you money. The savings are a side effect of good architecture. 🏗️
📏 Is $10-150K/mo really the sweet spot?
We work best with AWS accounts spending $10K/mo or more. Below that, there usually isn't enough waste to justify an engagement. Above $150K you probably need a full-time FinOps team (I can help you hire one, actually). But that $10-150K range? That's where businesses are big enough to have real infrastructure but too busy building product to optimize it. That's my people. 🫡
🧑💻 Can't I just use AWS Cost Explorer myself?
You can! And you should! But Cost Explorer shows you what you're spending. I show you why it's too much and exactly how to fix it. It's the difference between a thermometer and a doctor. One tells you the temperature. The other tells you why you feel terrible and gives you a prescription. 🌡️
🛠️ What if my team can implement the fixes themselves?
Awesome — that's literally what the report is for. You pay 15%, get the full playbook, and your team runs with it. I'll even answer questions if they get stuck. I don't get offended when people don't need me. I get paid and you get savings. Capitalism at its finest. 🎉
🤖 How is this different from CloudHealth / ProsperOps / [insert SaaS tool]?
Those are dashboards. They scan your account and show you charts. I'm a person who reads your architecture, understands your business, gets on a call with you, and tells you exactly what to change and why. Dashboards find obvious waste. I find the structural misalignment between your tech and your business that no tool can see. Also, I can explain things using sports metaphors if that helps. Dashboards cannot. 😏
😰 How do I know you won't break something?
The scan uses read-only access. I literally cannot change anything even if I wanted to. For implementation, every change is documented, reviewed with your team, and rolled out carefully. I've been doing this for 19 years. I break things on my own AWS account, not yours. (My personal bill is a whole separate therapy session.) 😅
Your AWS bill isn't going to cut itself. ✂️
$99. 15 minutes. One call that pays for itself about a thousand times over.
Built for small businesses spending $10-150K/mo on AWS who'd rather spend that money on literally anything else. 💰
🗓️ Book Your $99 AWS InterventionDown payment on your audit. No extra fees. No hard sell. No PowerPoints. Just math. 🧮