Data Cost Optimization
A structured accelerator to reduce and govern data platform spend — from pipeline and warehouse cost assessment through to implemented right-sizing, tiering, and lifecycle controls.
Assessment
Before optimising spend, you need to understand where it's going. The assessment breaks down compute, storage, and tooling costs across your data platform to surface the highest-impact opportunities.
Compute Spend Analysis
Break down warehouse and cluster compute spend by pipeline, workload, and team to surface the biggest cost drivers.
Storage Cost Audit
Analyze storage costs across raw, staging, and curated layers, including retention gaps and duplication.
Query & Job Efficiency Review
Identify long-running, frequently-run, or inefficient queries and jobs consuming disproportionate compute.
Tooling & Licensing Review
Evaluate current platform, orchestration, and licensing costs for fit and redundancy.
Design
Using assessment findings, we design the sizing, tiering, and visibility controls needed to bring data platform spend under control and keep it there.
Right-Sizing Strategy
Design compute sizing and auto-scaling policies for warehouses and clusters matched to actual workload patterns.
Storage Tiering & Lifecycle
Design lifecycle policies to move cold data to cheaper storage tiers and expire data that's no longer needed.
Query Optimization Playbook
Define partitioning, clustering, and caching strategies to cut compute cost on high-frequency queries.
Cost Visibility Design
Design cost allocation tagging and dashboards so spend is attributable by pipeline, team, and dataset.
Implementation
Designs are only valuable when executed. The accelerator delivers hands-on implementation of every agreed initiative — with the controls and dashboards needed to sustain savings beyond the engagement.
Right-Sized Compute
Deployed auto-scaling and sizing policies across warehouses and clusters, tuned to real workload patterns.
Tiering & Retention Implemented
Automated lifecycle rules moving and expiring data across storage tiers with zero manual intervention.
Optimized Pipelines & Queries
Refactored high-cost jobs and queries with partitioning, clustering, and caching applied.
Cost Dashboards & Alerts
Live cost visibility dashboards with budget alerts per pipeline, team, and environment.