Deliverable 01
A cost and controls baseline
Review the agreed AWS accounts, available cost and usage data, current configuration controls, and the team workflows that affect spend.
Focused AWS engagement
Make AWS spend more visible. Give teams safer room to move.
Hands-on cost visibility and governance improvements for AWS environments. The work combines Python FinOps automation with Terraform-managed AWS Config controls, scoped to the accounts and operating needs that matter to your team.
Remote U.S. · C2C preferred through Mentoritek · 1099 considered
The problem this addresses
Cloud costs rise when teams lack visibility and guardrails.
Leaders need to understand what is driving spend. Delivery teams need clear boundaries that prevent avoidable cost and risky changes without turning every decision into a bottleneck. This engagement focuses on those practical controls in AWS.
See the Atlas Air exampleA good fit when
- AWS spend is growing, difficult to explain, or hard to govern.
- Teams need room to deliver while preventing risky or costly configuration changes.
- You have an AWS organization or account group where a focused improvement can be scoped.
- A platform, cloud, or FinOps owner can provide context and review proposed changes.
What the engagement delivers
A defined path from cost questions to working controls.
The exact account set and implementation backlog are agreed after discovery. Work stays focused on AWS cost visibility, FinOps automation, and governance guardrails.
Deliverable 02
A prioritized action plan
Identify practical visibility improvements and governance guardrails, then agree on what to implement based on value, risk, and operating constraints.
Deliverable 03
Hands-on implementation
Build agreed Python FinOps automation and deploy AWS Config and supporting infrastructure changes through Terraform, with changes reviewed by your team.
Deliverable 04
Validation and handoff
Verify the controls against the agreed scenarios, document how they work, and hand the implementation back to the people who operate the environment.
Scope is limited to the agreed AWS accounts and controls. This is not a full cloud migration, ongoing managed service, or promise of a specific savings percentage. Any production changes follow your review and change-approval process.
First step · 30 minutes
Confirm the problem and whether the scope fits.
Bring the AWS cost or governance challenge, the program context, and what has already been tried. We’ll discuss affected accounts, access and change constraints, the contracting path, and a practical next step. No implementation work is assumed on the call.
- 01
Describe the pressure
What is driving cost or slowing safe delivery?
- 02
Check the fit
Do the account scope, data, and decision owners support focused work?
- 03
Define next steps
If there is a fit, agree on the initial scope, contract route, and timing.
AWS cost control & governance guardrails
Bring the problem. Let’s scope the work.
Hands-on architecture and implementation through Mentoritek. Remote U.S. engagements; C2C preferred, 1099 considered.