The bill grows faster than your users
Every month it is a little higher, and nobody can say exactly why.
AWS · Azure · Kubernetes
Cut your AWS and Azure bill without slowing your engineers.
Founder-led cloud cost, DevOps and Kubernetes engineering for growing tech teams in India and abroad. You work directly with the engineer who does the work.
No access to your account needed for the free review. Just a cost export.
Hands-on, every day, in production
- AWS
- Azure
- Amazon EKS
- Azure AKS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
Sound familiar?
Nobody owns cloud cost
Engineers ship features, finance pays the invoice, and the gap in between costs money.
Kubernetes upgrades keep slipping
The cluster is a few versions behind, and extended support fees are starting to show up.
Start free. Pay only when the numbers make sense.
Step 1
Free cloud bill review
Free
A 20-minute call and a one-page note naming the 3 biggest leaks in your bill.
- You send a Cost Explorer or Azure Cost Management export
- 20-minute call to understand your workload
- One-page note: 3 biggest leaks, with rough monthly value
- No access to your account needed
Step 2
Cloud Cost Audit
₹14,999 – ₹24,999$299 – $499
5 working days. A savings report with a value against every line, and a plan to get it.
- Read-only access review of AWS or Azure
- Savings report with ₹ / $ value per finding
- Prioritised fix plan: quick wins first, risk noted
- 45-minute walkthrough with your team
If the audit does not find savings worth at least 3x its fee, the fee is refunded.
Start with the free reviewStep 3
Savings implementation
Fixed quote
I make the changes from the audit, with your approval on each one.
- Rightsizing and idle-resource cleanup
- Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and Azure reservations
- Storage tiering, gp2 → gp3, Graviton and Spot where safe
- Tagging, budgets and cost alerts
Fixed quote, or 20–25% of the first 6 months of verified savings.
Book a callHow the audit works
20-minute call
You tell me what the bill looks like and what you have tried. No slides, no demo.
Read-only access
For a paid audit, you create a read-only IAM role (AWS) or Reader role (Azure). I send the exact policy.
Savings report in 5 days
Every finding has a monthly value, the effort to fix it and the risk.
I implement, or you do
Hand the plan to your team, or I make the changes with your approval on each one.
Read-only access. NDA on request. No change is made without your written approval.
Who you work with
Mandavi Kumari, founder and the engineer who does the work
I run production infrastructure on AWS and Azure, including Kubernetes on EKS and AKS. I started NextOpsLab because growing teams kept paying for cloud they did not use, and the fix was rarely a new tool. It was an engineer with time to read the bill line by line.
When you hire NextOpsLab, the person on the first call is the person who audits your account and makes the changes.
Questions people ask
Is giving you read-only access safe?
The free review needs no access at all: you export a cost report and send it. For the paid audit you create a read-only role (AWS ReadOnlyAccess plus Billing view, or Azure Reader and Cost Management Reader). It can see configuration and costs but cannot change, start or delete anything, and you can remove it the moment the audit ends.
What if you find nothing worth saving?
Then the free review tells you that, and you have spent 20 minutes. For the paid audit: if it does not find savings worth at least 3x its fee, the fee is refunded.
Do you work with Azure too, or only AWS?
Both. AWS and Azure, including Kubernetes on EKS and AKS. Google Cloud is possible for smaller scopes; ask on the call.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes. Send yours, or I can send a short mutual NDA before you share any export or access.
How do invoicing and payment work?
Indian clients are invoiced in INR; international clients in USD. The audit is paid upfront; implementation and retainers are invoiced monthly.
Which time zones do you work in?
I am based in India (IST, UTC+5:30) and keep a few hours of overlap with Europe, the Middle East and the US East Coast for calls.
Who will actually do the work?
I will. NextOpsLab is founder-led: the engineer who audits your account is the one who implements the changes. Nothing is handed off to juniors.
Find out what your cloud bill is hiding
Five fields, one minute. You will get a reply within one working day, and a link to book your 20-minute call straight away.
Or email hello@nextopslab.in