How Acme SaaS Cut AWS Spend 34% Without Touching Code
“We had 15% budget overruns every quarter. Our VP Eng thought we were optimized. We were scared of a ‘midnight bill’ from a bad deployment.” — CTO, Acme SaaS
The Problem
Acme SaaS, an 80-employee B2B platform, was burning $52K/mo on AWS with 15% quarterly overruns. Engineering suspected waste but lacked time to audit. Finance wanted predictability. The CTO feared a runaway bill from a misconfigured autoscaling group.
The 7-Day Nimbus Audit with Gemma-4
What We Did
- Day 1-2 Connect: Read-only IAM access. Zero engineering time.
- Day 3-4 Analyze: Gemma-4, our proprietary AI, parsed 6 months of usage for waste patterns across EC2, RDS, S3, NAT Gateways, and data transfer.
- Day 5 Recommend: Delivered Terraform-ready fixes + plain-English playbook. Prioritized by $ impact vs effort.
- Day 6-7 Protect: Enabled Circuit Breakers to alert on drift and auto-create PRs for new waste.
Why Gemma-4 Is Different
Unlike CloudZero or nOps that resurface AWS recommendations, Gemma-4 is trained on 500+ mid-market audits. It finds:
- Orphaned cross-account resources
- Bad autoscaling + zombie containers
- Cross-AZ data transfer waste
- GP2 volumes that should be GP3
And it writes the fix — not “consider rightsizing”.
Where the Money Was
Results + GreenOps Impact
Acme implemented 80% of recommendations in 2 weeks. Circuit Breakers now block new waste before it hits the bill. They moved from quarterly budget surprises to ±3% variance.
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If we don’t find $5K+ in monthly savings, the audit is free.