✂️ Free audit. You only pay a % of actual savings. Guaranteed ROI.
Your AWS bill is a symptom.
I find the cure.
You only pay a % of actual, verified savings on your bill. Guaranteed ROI. 💸
15 min · free · no pitch deck 😏
David Plappert
19 years on AWS · Since 2007 ☕
What I typically find
25–40%
of AWS spend is waste 👀
🗓️ Let's Talk
Fill this out and I'll reach out to schedule a time. Takes 30 seconds.
After you submit: I'll email you within 1 business day to confirm a time. No phone tag. ✅
"David's a commando. He is fast and efficient at getting results."
— CTO, Non-Profit w/ $10M Annual Budget
Prefer email? david@cutmyaws.com · I reply within 1 business day 📧
Trusted by teams at
Why Cut My AWS? 🤔
Growing cloud spend doesn't mean efficient cloud spend. Cloud cost optimization tools show you charts — I show you why your tech doesn't match your business. Your revenue grew 40% — did your AWS bill grow 40% too? Or 80%? 📈
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Keep your tech team building value
Your engineers should be shipping product, not hunting for savings. I dig into your architecture, find the misalignment, and do the one-time cleanup so they don't have to. No recurring retainer. No ongoing distraction. Just results. 🚀
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Not a dashboard. Not an AI. A human.
Cloud cost optimization tools show charts. AI generates summaries. I read your architecture, understand your business, and tell you exactly what to change and why. Real cloud cost optimization is a person, not a platform. And I only make money when you do. 🤝
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Guaranteed ROI
The audit is free. You see the full report before spending a dollar. If you want me to fix it, you only pay a percentage of actual savings that show up on your bill. Not projections — real numbers. No savings? No fee. I carry the risk, not you. 🎯
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Growing ≠ efficient
Nobody sets out to waste money on AWS. You launch fast, scale fast, and three years later you're paying for infrastructure you forgot existed. That's not negligence — that's just building a business. Let me clean it up. 🧾
15 minutes. Free. Just math and honest answers. 🧮
What people say after working with David
📋 See It In Action
10 years. 3 state healthcare exchanges. 6 AWS accounts. Here's the full story.
EC2 → Microservices: 30% Cloud Savings Across 3 State Exchanges
How David led DevOps for DC Health Link, the MA Health Connector, and more — migrating from monolithic EC2 to Lambda, ECS, and EKS while maintaining HIPAA compliance and 24/7 uptime.
30%
Cost reduction
6
AWS accounts
HIPAA
Full compliance
How It Works 🧰
One engagement. I audit, I fix, you only pay a % of actual savings. No savings? No fee. 🤝
The audit is free. You only pay a % of actual savings. Guaranteed ROI.
Not projections — real reductions on your AWS bill. No savings? No fee.
🗓️ Intro Call · 15 min · free
We meet, I ask questions about your business, and we figure out if there's a fit. No payment. No AWS access. Just a conversation. 🔍
📋 Audit · 5–10 business days · free
You grant read-only access (15 min setup). I dig into your architecture, billing history, and resource utilization. I see infrastructure and billing — not your application data, databases, or secrets. No charge. 📄
📊 Findings Meeting · free
I walk your team through everything I found. You get three deliverables you keep forever — no charge. 🤝
Audit PDF
Service-by-service savings breakdown with dollar amounts.
Security PDF FREE until 4/15
Public S3 buckets, overprivileged IAM, security group misconfigs, unencrypted resources, missing logging.
Implementation Recommendations PDF
What to change, why, and how — whether your team does it or I do.
🔧 Implementation · typically 2–4 weeks
I implement the optimizations — serverless migrations, right-sizing, Savings Plans, architecture fixes. I work asynchronously — your team just reviews before production. Dev first, tested, then promoted. No cowboy deploys. Minimal disruption. 💪
📊 Verification & Payment
We pull up your AWS bill. Before. After. Side by side. I only charge a percentage of actual savings on your bill — not projections, not estimates. If the savings didn't show up, I don't get paid. Guaranteed ROI. 💰
One-time fee. No monthly charges. No subscriptions. You pay once and keep the savings forever. Full terms →
🕵️ The Usual Suspects
Decisions that made sense at the time. That time was 2021. It's not 2021 anymore.
15 min. Free. No commitment. 😏
Connect with me on LinkedIn 👋 Hey, I'm David.
19 years on AWS. I build production serverless SaaS at Fortune 100 scale, hold a U.S. patent on cloud infrastructure, and I know where AWS hides the markup because I've been paying it myself for years. 🎯
When I'm not auditing infrastructure, I'm in the suburbs of Peoria, IL with my wife and two young kids. 🏡 No VC funding. No investors. Just a dad who's really good at AWS and really motivated to find your savings.
Yes, "Cut My AWS" is a real business name registered with the state of Florida. No, I will not apologize for it. ✂️
🔒 Your Data. My Paranoia.
I've worked with organizations that handle the most sensitive data in the country. Your AWS account is in good hands. Careful, experienced, slightly paranoid hands. 🫡
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HIPAA
Protected health information? Been there, secured that.
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DC Health Link
Health exchange data for the nation's capital.
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PII & eCommerce
Customer data, payment data, the stuff that keeps you up at night.
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IRS Pub 1075
Federal tax information. The government trusted me. You can too.
🛡️ How access works
- ✅Read-only IAM role — scoped policy, your team provisions it. I can look but I literally cannot touch. 👀
- ✅No data extraction — I audit infrastructure and architecture, not your application data.
- ✅SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP environments — I've worked inside all of them. I know the rules. 🏗️
- ✅Access revoked when we're done — you control it the entire time. Delete the role and I'm gone.
❓ 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. In my career this has happened exactly zero times, but I hear there's a first time for everything. And if the savings are small enough that implementation isn't worth the hassle, I'll tell you that too. I'll send you a congratulatory email either way.
🤨 When do I actually pay?
The intro call is free. The audit is free. You don't pay a dime until you've seen the report and decided you want me to fix it. I only charge a percentage of actual savings — real reductions that show up on your AWS bill. Not projections. Guaranteed ROI. No savings? No fee. 😅
🎯 Is this just a cost audit or something more?
Way more. Cloud cost optimization tools tell you what you're spending. I tell you why your tech doesn't match your business — and that's where the real cloud cost savings live. I'm a serverless architect who does cloud cost optimization the way it should be done — business-aligned, not dashboard-driven. The savings are a side effect of good architecture. 🏗️
📏 What size AWS accounts do you work with?
We work best with AWS accounts spending $5K+/mo. Below that, there usually isn't enough waste to justify an engagement. Above that? Even better — more infrastructure means more savings to find. 🫡
🧑💻 Can't my team just optimize this ourselves?
They can try! But cloud cost optimization isn't scanning dashboards for random savings. I'm reading your architecture, understanding your business, and finding the structural mismatches — the kind of waste that no cloud cost optimization tool surfaces. It's the difference between a thermometer and a doctor. 🌡️
🤖 How is this different from tools like CloudHealth or ProsperOps?
Those are dashboards that 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. I find the structural misalignment between your tech and your business that no tool can see. 😏
⏱️ How much of my team's time does this take?
Almost none. Grant read-only access (15 min setup), attend 1 findings meeting, and review changes before production. That's it. I do the work. Your team stays focused on shipping. 🚀
15 minutes. Free. I'll answer anything. 🤝
🗓️ Let's Talk
Fill this out and I'll reach out to schedule a time. Takes 30 seconds.
After you submit: I'll email you within 1 business day to confirm a time. No phone tag. ✅
"David's a commando. He is fast and efficient at getting results."
— CTO, Non-Profit w/ $10M Annual Budget
Prefer email? david@cutmyaws.com · I reply within 1 business day 📧
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