Cloud Infrastructure Optimisation
Cloud servers sized once at launch rarely match the load a business has today — some are paying for capacity nobody uses, others are quietly undersized. GullySystem right-sizes servers, storage and scaling rules against real, measured usage.
Sized Once, Rarely Revisited
Most cloud spending decisions are made once, at launch or during a migration, and rarely revisited even as usage patterns change completely. The result is either capacity paid for and never used, or a setup that has quietly become undersized as the business grew — and both mistakes usually sit side by side in the same account.
What Gets Reviewed
Instance and Server Sizing
Actual CPU, memory and network usage over time compared against what is provisioned, to find machines running well below or dangerously close to their limits.
Storage Class and Retention
Data sitting on expensive, fast storage long after it is actively used, when a cheaper storage tier would serve it just as well.
Autoscaling Rules
Whether scaling triggers match real traffic patterns, so extra capacity comes on ahead of a genuine spike rather than after it has already caused a slowdown.
Idle and Forgotten Resources
Servers, databases and environments left running from a project that finished, quietly billed every month with nobody using them.
Right-Sizing Without Risking Availability
Reducing capacity is done gradually and measured against real load, not cut in one step on a guess. A server is resized only once its actual peak usage over a representative period has been recorded, and changes are staged so that a miscalculation shows up as a warning on a dashboard rather than an outage during business hours.
Scaling Rules That Follow Real Traffic
- Triggers based on the metric that actually predicts load for your application, not a generic default
- Enough lead time for new capacity to come online before a spike, since scaling that starts after the fact is already too late
- Scaling down as deliberately as scaling up, so unused capacity is not left running once a spike passes
- Alerts for when scaling limits are approached, so a ceiling is noticed before it is hit
Working Across Providers
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
The specific tools differ, but the approach — measure real usage, then size and set scaling rules against it — is the same across providers.
Migrations Between Providers or Tiers
Where moving to a different provider, region or tier is the right answer, that recommendation is made with the same measured evidence as any other change, not as a default suggestion.
Frequently asked questions
Is this worth doing if we're already fairly cost-conscious about our cloud spend?
It depends on whether that awareness has translated into recent measurement. Even a well-run account tends to accumulate idle resources and outdated sizing decisions over time, so a review can be worthwhile purely as a periodic check even without a specific complaint driving it.
Will right-sizing our infrastructure risk downtime during a spike?
Changes are staged and based on measured peak usage over a representative period, with alerts set before any new limit is reached, so a miscalculation is caught as a warning rather than experienced as an outage.
How much can we expect to save?
We do not promise a figure before measuring, since it depends entirely on how much unused or misallocated capacity your account currently carries. Some accounts have significant idle spend; others are already close to right-sized and the opportunity is smaller.
What determines the cost and how long right-sizing takes?
How many services and environments need reviewing, and how much historical usage data already exists to base decisions on. An account with good existing monitoring is quicker to assess and finish than one with no visibility into past usage at all.
Do you work with our specific cloud provider?
Yes, across the major providers — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud — as well as more conventional hosting. The tools used to review usage differ by provider, but the underlying method of measuring before changing anything does not.
Who controls the cloud account and configuration afterwards?
You do. All sizing, storage and scaling changes are made directly in your own cloud account under your ownership, so you retain full control and billing visibility once the engagement ends.
What access do you need to our cloud accounts to begin?
Access to your cloud account with billing and monitoring visibility, or an export of recent usage if direct access is not possible, and a list of which environments are production versus development or testing, since they should not be treated the same way.
Tell us what you need.
Send a short brief and one of our engineers will come back to you — usually the same day.
- No obligation
- We reply the same working day
- Your details stay private