The 12-point AWS cost checklist we run in the first fortnight
The levers that reliably move a bill, in the order we pull them, with the traps that make each one backfire.
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AWS Partner Network · Australian owned since 2014
Your AWS environment, run properly.
Seacow is an Australian cloud managed service provider. We take ownership of your AWS platform end to end — architecture, migration, 24×7 operations, security and cost — so your engineers can stay on product.
24×7SOC & NOC coverage
<15 minP1 response target
2014operating in Australia since
100%AU data residency options
# seacow-cli assess --account prod-au --region ap-southeast-2
Scanning 412 resources across 9 services…
✔ Reliability Multi-AZ RDS, cross-region backups verified
▲ Cost $18,240/mo → $11,900/mo after rightsizing + SP
▲ Security 4 public S3 policies, 11 IAM keys > 90 days
✔ Performance p95 latency 210 ms, within SLO
▲ Operations no runbook for RDS failover
# 5 high findings → remediation plan generated
report: wa-review-2026-08.pdf (10 business days)
The AWS services our customers run in production every day
Amazon EKSAmazon RDS & AuroraAWS Lambda
AWS Control TowerAmazon S3Amazon CloudFront
AWS Transit GatewayAmazon Bedrock
0%markup on your AWS consumption, ever
Your reposTerraform, runbooks and dashboards, from day one
Namedlead engineer, not a rotating ticket queue
30 daysexit notice, with a documented handover
What we do
One partner for the whole cloud lifecycle
Most providers do one slice well. We cover the full arc — from the first landing zone to the invoice you argue about at the end of the quarter.
Managed AWS Operations
24×7 monitoring, patching, backup, incident response and change management against a contractual SLA. We hold the pager.
Managed servicesCloud Migration
Assess, mobilise, migrate. VMware estates, Windows workloads, legacy databases and co-location exits moved to AWS with a rollback plan at every stage.
Migration practiceFinOps & Cost Optimisation
Tag governance, showback by team, Savings Plans strategy and continuous rightsizing. Typical customers cut 22–35% in the first two quarters.
FinOps programmeSecurity & Compliance
Guardrails via Control Tower and SCPs, GuardDuty and Security Hub triage, and evidence packs for ISO 27001, SOC 2, Essential Eight and IRAP readiness.
Security servicesDevOps & Platform
Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, EKS platform engineering and golden paths your developers actually want to use.
Platform engineeringData, Analytics & AI
Managed data platforms on S3, Glue, Redshift and Athena, plus Bedrock foundations — with lineage, retention and cost per query built in.
Data services
Why Seacow
An MSP that behaves like your own platform team
You get a named lead engineer, a shared Slack channel, and a monthly service review where we walk through incidents, spend and risk. No ticket-shuffling, no offshore handoff you never agreed to.
- Australian-based engineers, Australian-held data
- Everything as code — your Terraform stays in your repository, not ours
- Transparent AWS billing: we never mark up your consumption
- 30-day exit clause and a documented handover pack
Named team
A lead engineer and an account director who know your architecture, not a rotating queue.
Runbook first
Every alert maps to a written, tested runbook. Reviewed after every P1.
No lock-in
Infrastructure code, dashboards and documentation are yours from day one.
Flat pricing
Fixed monthly service fee. AWS spend passes through at cost.
Engagement model
Four weeks from first call to fully managed
A deliberately short runway. Anything longer usually means the discovery was skipped, and you pay for that later.
The full engagement modelDiscovery & assessment
A structured review of your accounts, workloads and pain points against the AWS Well-Architected Framework. You get the written report whether or not you engage us.
Remediation plan
Prioritised findings with effort, risk and cost impact. We agree what we fix now, what waits, and what you keep in house.
Onboarding & hardening
Guardrails, monitoring, backup policy, runbooks and access model deployed. Typically 2–3 weeks.
Run & improve
24×7 operations begin, with a monthly service review covering SLA performance, spend trend and the next optimisation.
Sector depth
We already carry your regulatory context
Generic cloud advice fails where the rules bite. These are the sectors we work in most.
Financial services
APRA CPS 230 and CPS 234, material service provider documentation, operational resilience evidence.
Read moreHealthcare
Health records handling, privacy-by-design architecture, long-retention imaging storage at sane cost.
Read moreGovernment & GovTech
IRAP readiness, ap-southeast-4 residency, procurement-friendly documentation.
Read moreSaaS & technology
Multi-tenant isolation, per-tenant cost attribution, enterprise security questionnaires.
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Proof
Recent work
Customers are described by sector rather than named. We publish a name only with that customer's written consent.
LogisticsCloud migration
A 14-month data centre exit, finished six weeks early
380 servers, two co-location facilities, eleven migration waves and a 31% run-rate reduction.
Read the case studyFinancial servicesFinOps
$1.9M of annual AWS waste, structurally removed
Cost forensics in nine days, tag policy enforced, untagged spend down from 41% to 3%.
Read the case studySaaSCompliance
From informal controls to an evidence pack in ten weeks
IRAP assessment commenced with no blocking findings; ISO 27001 certified the following quarter.
Read the case study“We went from three unplanned outages a quarter to none. The monthly review is the first vendor meeting I don't dread.”
“They found $190k of annual waste in the first fortnight and then refused to bill us a percentage of it. That told me everything.”
“Our IRAP assessor asked for evidence we didn't have. Seacow had it produced and mapped in four days.”
Insights
Field notes from Australian cloud operations
Mapping the ACSC Essential Eight onto real AWS services
What each mitigation strategy actually means when your estate is accounts, roles and pipelines rather than desktops.
Read articleNine questions that separate cloud MSPs in Australia
Ask these in the first meeting. The answers tell you more than any capability deck will.
Read articleStart with a free AWS Well-Architected review
Ten business days, no cost, no obligation. You keep the report and the remediation plan regardless of what you decide next — about a third of reviews end with the customer doing the work themselves.