Reduce your cloud infrastructure costs with a simple one hour call

With over a decade of cloud optimization experience across all three major IaaS vendors, we have the experts to help reduce your cloud costs while also advising on security, compliance, governance and reliability.

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Cost Reduction Solutions

At CLEFF, dramatic cloud cost reduction is possible within just a few hours.
Deeper engagements can result in 20-40% cost reduction in monthly cloud expenses.


We advise on the following and much more:
Eliminate Waste
Identify unused and underused resources including:

- Virtual machines / containers / pods
- Persistent disks / storage configuration
- IP addresses and other network services
- Inefficient network patterns
Embrace Elasticity
Take full advantage of the cloud by:

- Utilizing Spot or Preemptible virtual machines
- Right-sizing storage
- Leveraging cloud-native solutions including serverless and managed data services reducing both expense and
Confidently Commit
Longer-term commitments can dramatically reduce costs, especially for very stable, 24x7 workloads. We help advise on:

- Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
- Committed Use Discounts
- Long-term contracts
Reduce Other Expenses
We can also help find other cost-savings optimizations including:

- Rightsizing support contracts
- Advising on efficient HA/DR solutions
- Consolidate third parties including observability and security services


No magic, just experience.

Cloud Efficiency Consultants works directly with your engineering, operations and finance teams to understand your cloud needs, analyse your usage, recommend optimization for cost reduction, and review periodic cost reporting.

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Enterprise Expertise

Having worked with dozens of enterprises, we have saved individual companies millions of dollars per year by identifying waste, guiding engineering teams to embrace cloud-native practices, and providing visibility into inefficiencies.

Remember, a significant percentage of your seven-figure cloud spend is waste, and only serving to grow profit margins for the cloud vendors.

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Start-up Specialty

Just getting started with your new business or launching a product on the cloud?
We can help.

Are you growing and needing to scale your systems but shocked by exploding cloud costs?
We can help here as well.

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Programs and Pricing

Choose programs that include from free initial consultation to guaranteed savings.
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Free consultation

Every hour you wait translates to lost savings.

With an initial phone or video call, we can help understand your cloud goals and tailor an engagement that works for you.

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Monthly Reviews

We offer monthly or quarterly cloud billing and cost reviews. Affordable hourly rates, working directly with your engineer, finance and/or finance teams.

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Guaranteed Savings

CLEFF also offers guaranteed savings service options.

CLEFF Professional Services works closely with your engineers, providing expert guidance on your cloud consumption, only charging a small percentage of your recognized savings.

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More than just cost

With years of experience building, operating, scaling and securing cloud-native services for companies of all sizes, CLEFF has the expertise to help you with all of your cloud challenges.

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CLEFF Blog Highlights:
Recent Cloud Cost News

AWS has made Glacier even less expensive

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/amazon-s3-glacier-announces-price-reduction-for-put-and-lifecycle-requests/
Price reduction alert: AWS Glacier Put and Lifecycle requests are now 40% less expensive across all regions.
March 16, 2021

Podcast and article on "Vantage: AWS Console Alternative with Ben Schaechter"

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/03/03/vantage-aws-console-alternative-with-ben-schaechter/
Ben Schaechter, co-founder of Vantage, discusses the challenges of managing the hundreds of AWS services and the associated costs.
March 3, 2021

AWS just reduced SC1 EBS volume price by 40%

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/aws-announces-price-reduction-for-amazon-ebs-sc1-volumes/
AWS just reduced the price of their SC1 EBS volumes by 40%, "or an estimated $160 for each 16TB sc1 volume. "
November 9, 2020