We come in for a fixed engagement, cut the obvious waste, work through the harder structural stuff (rightsizing, Savings Plans, NAT and data-transfer redesign), and document what we did so your team can hold the line after we're gone. No multi-year retainer. No percent-of-savings handcuff.
We do these in the order that gets the fastest results. You can stop after any step and keep the savings from the ones before it.
Unattached EBS, stopped EC2, orphaned EIPs, abandoned snapshots and AMIs, idle load balancers. Powered by our IdleCloud scanner — the same one you can run yourself for free.
CloudWatch metrics over a representative window tell us which instances are oversized. We propose specific moves (e.g., m5.xlarge → m6i.large) with the cost delta and the risk for each.
We model your steady-state workload and recommend coverage — including the conservative 1-year, no-upfront option for teams that aren't ready to lock in three years. We don't take a kickback from AWS for this.
The expensive stuff: chatty NAT gateways, cross-AZ data transfer, S3 in the wrong storage class, RDS instances that should be Aurora Serverless (or vice versa). This is where the real money is — and where dashboards never look.
Most cost-optimization vendors take a percentage of your savings — forever. We charge a fixed fee for the engagement and write up what we did so your team can keep doing it. Pick whichever model is less weird.
| Typical % -of-savings vendor | Coyote IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | 15–25% of monthly savings, indefinitely | Fixed fee per engagement |
| Incentive alignment | Vendor benefits if savings grow — and if you stay dependent on them | We benefit from the next client. You keep 100% of savings. |
| Knowledge transfer | Usually a dashboard you can't replicate without their tooling | Written runbook your team can rerun quarterly |
| Tooling lock-in | You install their agent / role / SaaS | IdleCloud is optional. Everything else is just AWS-native. |
| Exit cost | Cancel and lose the dashboard, the alerts, and the recommendations | We hand you the report and the runbook. Done. |
We built IdleCloud because the first 30% of cost savings in most AWS accounts is just dead resources nobody remembered to delete. You can scan your account yourself, in under five minutes, with read-only access — no engagement, no commitment.
If the scan finds enough to justify a deeper look, the free IT audit is the next step. If it doesn't, you've still cleaned up your AWS account in an afternoon. That's a fine outcome.
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