AWS cost optimisation
Reduce AWS costs. Lower your AWS bill without changing providers.
Emnode discovers idle resources, overprovisioned services and Savings Plan coverage gaps across your AWS environment. Connect AWS in minutes and see your first savings opportunities today.
Read-only IAM role · Set up in minutes · No card needed until the trial ends
Setup
Takes minutes
A guided, read-only IAM role — nothing to install.
Price
From £79/mo
Unlimited users and cloud accounts.
Access
Read-only
No changes to your infrastructure.
Free trial
14 days
No card needed until it ends.
The problem
Your AWS bill keeps growing. Here's why.
AWS makes it easy to spin resources up and easy to forget them. Without dedicated cost ownership, waste compounds every month, and the bill only moves in one direction.
Idle and forgotten resources. Dev environments left running, unattached EBS volumes and old snapshots quietly billing every hour.
Overprovisioned services. Instances sized for peak loads that never arrive, and databases running classes above what workloads need.
Poor commitment coverage. On-demand pricing on steady workloads, where AWS prices Savings Plans at up to 72% below on-demand.
Cost Explorer isn't enough. AWS's native tools show you spend, but they don't assign owners, track actions or make sure savings actually happen.
What you can cut
Your AWS waste, ranked by what it costs you.
Every opportunity grouped by type with the monthly saving against each — right-sizing, Graviton migrations, unused volumes, idle load balancers — so the biggest wins are obvious before anyone opens a ticket.
What's driving your AWS bill
Twelve months of AWS spend, and what moved it.
Every month broken out by category against the forecast band, then the AWS services that moved the bill priced individually.
Where your AWS spend sits
Every AWS category, service and account, ranked.
Share of spend by category with month-on-month movement and a trend line each, then the top services and accounts underneath — with alerts flagged against the ones that need looking at.
When something changes
Spend running outside its own baseline, flagged.
Anomaly detection watches daily cost against each account's normal range and raises what doesn't fit, so an unexpected increase surfaces while you can still do something about it.
Read-only IAM role · Set up in minutes · No card needed until the trial ends
What you get out of it
Identified, actioned, verified — and what it's worth.
Every saving tracked from the moment it's found to the moment it shows up on the bill, with the value at each stage and the health of the practice behind it.
Savings you can prove
Verified, with a name against each one.
Every closed recommendation with the person who owned it, what it was worth per month, and how long it took — verified against the bill rather than estimated.
Connect AWS in minutes. Savings visible in your first session.
Connect
Deploy a read-only IAM role with our guided setup. No agents, no infrastructure changes.
See
Your AWS waste, anomalies and coverage gaps surface immediately, ranked by value.
Act
Assign owners, action the biggest savings first and track each one to completion.
Repeat
Monthly reviews catch new waste as your AWS environment grows and changes.
Multi-cloud ready
Running Azure too? One platform covers both.
Many AWS teams also run workloads on Azure. Emnode gives you one view of cost, compliance and reliability across both clouds, so you're not stitching together two sets of native tools. See the Azure cost optimisation page for the Azure side.
One dashboard, both clouds
AWS and Azure spend, savings and risks side by side.
Consistent governance
The same review cadence, ownership model and savings tracking everywhere.
Finance-friendly reporting
Budgets, forecasts and verified savings across the whole cloud estate.
No extra headcount
Multi-cloud FinOps without hiring a dedicated specialist.
AWS cost questions, answered.
Why is my AWS bill so high?
AWS bills typically grow through idle EC2 instances, unattached EBS volumes, oversized databases, forgotten test environments, cross-AZ data transfer and poor Savings Plan or Reserved Instance coverage. Emnode breaks your bill down by service and account, and highlights exactly what is driving increases. See also our guide to reducing cloud spend.
How do I reduce AWS costs without changing providers?
Flexera’s 2026 State of the Cloud Report puts wasted cloud spend at 29%. Waste like that can often be removed without any architectural change: terminating idle resources, right-sizing overprovisioned instances, deleting unattached storage and improving commitment coverage. Emnode identifies these opportunities automatically and ranks them by monthly value.
Does Emnode help with AWS Savings Plans?
Yes. Emnode analyses your usage patterns and highlights where Savings Plans or Reserved Instances would reduce your bill, and where existing commitments are underutilised, so you can optimise coverage with confidence.
What AWS access does Emnode need?
Emnode connects via a read-only IAM role. Read-only. Emnode does not modify your infrastructure. It reads your billing, usage, compliance, backup and monitoring data, then recommends. You decide and act.
How quickly will I see AWS savings opportunities?
Setup takes minutes and your first savings opportunities are typically visible in the first session. Most teams see a prioritised list of AWS cost reductions within the first day.
What happens when the free trial ends?
You trial the plan you pick for 14 days, with no card needed until it ends. If you don't subscribe, your account drops to the Free tier — an open-ended high-level view across cost, compliance, reliability and monitoring — and you can upgrade whenever you're ready. No surprise charges, and you can disconnect your cloud accounts at any time.
Stop guessing where your AWS money goes.
Connect AWS in minutes and see your waste, anomalies and savings opportunities today. Free for 14 days, read-only, no card to start.
From £79/month, unlimited users and unlimited cloud accounts. Free tier available. See full pricing →
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