How KloudSense Conducts Your AWS Cost Audit
From read-only connection to certified human architect review and verified engineering roadmap delivery. Clear boundaries, zero disruption, and under 10 minutes of total internal team effort.
What You Do vs. What KloudSense Does
What Your Team Does
- ✓ Request the audit: Provide estimated monthly spend and primary AWS regions (takes 2 minutes).
- ✓ Deploy CloudFormation: Launch an inspectable 1-click stack in your primary AWS account granting read-only visibility (takes 5 minutes).
- ✓ Review results: Join an optional 30-minute technical debrief to walk through the findings and prioritized roadmap.
What KloudSense Does
- ✓ Automated ingestion: Collects 30–90 day CloudWatch telemetry, CUR line items, and resource configurations via temporary STS tokens.
- ✓ Quantitative analysis: Executes deterministic rules across compute, storage, databases, networking, and logs to calculate factual savings.
- ✓ Certified human architect review: Validates every flagged issue to eliminate false positives and construct safe rollback steps.
Step-by-Step 24 Hours Workflow
From Hour 0 to DeliveryRequest Audit
Submit basic environment scope (monthly spend bracket, active regions, primary services) via the intake form.
Provisions a dedicated client workspace, generates a customer-specific External ID token, and prepares the inspectable onboarding template.
Configure Read-Only AWS Access
Deploy our inspectable AWS CloudFormation stack (or manually create an IAM Role) in your primary AWS account with AWS-managed SecurityAudit policies.
Listens for STS trust handshake. We never ask for or accept IAM user passwords, secret access keys, or root credentials.
Verify Connection
Receives instant confirmation once the IAM role ARN is linked.
Executes an automated STS AssumeRole verification with your unique External ID to confirm read-only boundaries and test API reachability.
Collect AWS Data
Zero effort. No local agent, daemon, or software is installed in your VPC.
Ingests AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), CloudWatch 30–90 day metric summaries (CPU, memory, IOPS, network), and resource configuration metadata via temporary 1-hour STS credentials.
Analyze Infrastructure & Costs
Engineers focus on product sprints without interruption.
Audit engine executes deterministic rule algorithms across compute instances, Aurora/RDS databases, detached EBS storage, S3 object age tiers, NAT Gateways, and CloudWatch log groups.
Generate Findings
None required.
Catalogs all empirical waste signals into standardized finding objects with current configuration, mathematical monthly savings, and initial risk/confidence ratings.
Review Findings & Eliminate False Positives
None required.
A certified senior AWS cloud architect reviews every flagged item against operational context, eliminating false positives (e.g. disaster recovery nodes, scheduled batch bursts) and verifying safe rollback steps.
Produce Deliverables
None required.
Generates the central AWS Savings & Findings Report, the Executive Financial Summary, the Prioritized Remediation Matrix, and step-by-step safe execution blueprints.
Deliver Prioritized Roadmap
Receives the finalized deliverables and joins an optional 30-minute 1-on-1 architecture briefing with our lead cloud architect.
Walks through the findings, answers technical questions from your DevOps and engineering leads, and calibrates remediation prioritization.
Sample Audit Report
Review the 8 realistic findings and $4,180/mo identified savings.
Deterministic Rigor →Analysis Methodology
Understand how telemetry baselines and pricing formulas work.
Security First →Security & Trust
Learn about read-only IAM, STS, and data minimization.
Ready to uncover your AWS savings?
Connect read-only in 5 minutes. Receive your verified engineering roadmap within 24 hours.