AWS Expert · Live in your Slack in 24 hours

An AI DevOps agent
watching your AWS.
The audit comes free.

It lives in your Slack, answers your team about cost, security and incidents in seconds, and tells you what needs doing before it becomes an incident. One plan covers the agent and the monitoring, and the full AWS audit comes free with it — the audit is not a discount, it's how we start.

AI DevOps Agent in your Slack$249/mo
Monitoring & alerts, running 24/7$149/mo
Complete AWS Audit$599free
You pay$997$349/mo
Bought separately that’s $997 the first month — the audit is a one-off $599, the agent and monitoring are $398/mo after it. You pay $349/mo, audit included.
Cancel anytime  ·  No card stored  ·  Nothing charged before work is delivered

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This is the plan, actually running

The agent answering your team in Slack, the monitoring catching things before they bite, and the audit findings that start it all — the three pieces you pay for, in under a minute.

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Audit free · Monitoring included · Cancel anytime · Nothing charged before work is delivered

$2M+
AWS Costs Optimized
100+
AWS Accounts Audited
24hrs
Delivery Time
$0
Charged Before Work Done
Technologies I work with: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, GitHub
Open source on GitHub pip install aws-audit-checklist Launched on Hacker News
Trusted by
Jones SoftwareGovDashInstaLILY AIAddition WealthKnownC6 CapitalNew York Tribeca GroupAccompany CapitalHerettoStrategic Financial Services

You Pay for the Work.
Nothing Else.

A DevOps engineer costs $150k–$180k a year — around $100 an hour once you load benefits, tax and the months they are not busy. You don't need one on payroll. You need the work done when it comes up, and someone watching in between. That is what this is: a subscription that watches, and credits that build.

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The Credits Are Quoted First

The agent writes the plan and puts a number of credits on it. You see that number before you say yes — and nothing starts until you do.

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No Upfront Charges

Work gets done first. You review the deliverable. Then you pay. Every single time — no exceptions.

Engineering Bandwidth, On Demand

Migrations, incident fixes, cost cleanup, security remediation — bought in credits when you need them, costing nothing when you don't.

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Cancel Anything, Anytime

Monthly services cancel with one message. No contracts, no cancellation fees, no awkward calls with sales teams.

One plan. Everything in it.

There is one way to work with me and this is it — the agent and the monitoring on a single monthly price, and the audit given away because it is what makes the other two work.

THE PLAN · AUDIT INCLUDED FREE

One subscription: the agent and the monitoring

The AI DevOps Agent is $249/mo and AWS Monitoring & Alerts is $149/mo. They are sold as one plan at $349/mo — $49 a month less than the two apart — because neither does its job properly without the other. The monitoring is what wakes the agent up; the agent is what makes an alert mean something.

The Complete AWS Audit comes with it at no cost — $599 you don't pay. That one really is free, and not as a promotion: the agent can't watch an account nobody has read yet, and monitoring doesn't know what to alert on until that list exists. The audit is step one, so charging for it separately never made sense.

After that you only pay implementation credits at $34.90 each, and only when you approve the plan the agent writes for you.

Price excludes tax · reverse charge for EU businesses with a VAT number · billed monthly, no automatic charge · cancel anytime

$349/mo
Agent + Monitoring $398/mo $349/mo
Complete AWS Audit $599 free
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What the $349 buys you

Three pieces, one price, no retainer. Two of them are what you're paying for; the third is the one I don't charge for.

IN THE PLAN
MONTHLY

AI DevOps Expert Agent

$249 included

Part of the $349/mo plan. Live in your Slack in 24 hours.

Price excludes tax. Billed monthly in arrears — no card stored, no automatic charge.

Your own AI DevOps expert, permanently deployed in your Slack workspace. Ask it anything about your AWS costs, security posture, or incidents — it answers in seconds. And when the answer is "someone has to change something", it offers to write the plan and quote the credits.

  • Deployed directly into your Slack channel
  • Trained on AWS, DevOps & security knowledge
  • Answers questions & reviews configs 24/7
  • Customized with context about your stack
  • Offers you a scoped plan whenever work is needed
  • Unlocks implementation credits at $34.90 — 1/10 of the plan
  • Setup & configuration included
  • Cancel anytime — no contracts
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MONTHLY

AWS Monitoring & Alerts

$149 included

Part of the $349/mo plan. Watching your account every day it's running.

Price excludes tax. Billed monthly in arrears — no card stored, no automatic charge.

Lambda + SNS pipelines watch your AWS account around the clock and push instant alerts to Slack the moment something changes — costs, security events, configuration drift, backups.

  • Cost spike alerts the moment they happen
  • Security event alerts via GuardDuty → Slack
  • Architecture drift alerts — config changes flagged to Slack
  • Daily backup completion notifications
  • Instance up/down alerts
  • Alerts tuned as your account changes, not set once and forgotten
  • The pipelines live in your account — they are yours, not mine
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AWS Cost Monitor9:14 AM
🔴 Cost Spike Detected
EC2 +340% vs yesterday · $847 projected overage · us-east-1
AWS Backup Monitor6:00 AM
✅ Backup Completed
3 snapshots · us-east-1 · All integrity checks passed
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FREE WITH THE PLAN

AWS Complete Audit

$599 free

Included with the plan at no cost. Delivered in 24 hours.

Not billed at all while you're subscribed — it is the one thing here I give away.

A full sweep of your AWS account — security, cost waste, and backup integrity — with an interactive report and exact CLI commands to fix everything found.

  • IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, VPC & networking coverage
  • Cost waste identification (avg $2,400/mo saved)
  • Interactive HTML report with severity scores
  • Exact fix commands for every finding
  • RDS, EC2 snapshot & AMI backup verification
  • Recovery time estimate (RTO/RPO check)
  • 30-min walkthrough call included
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The audit is yours at no cost with the plan

IMPLEMENTATION CREDITS · SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

When it needs doing, not just watching

Ask the agent in Slack and it will offer to draw up the plan: what has to change, in what order, and how many credits it takes. Say yes and an engineer from my team does it. One credit buys an hour of engineering work and costs $34.90 — one tenth of your monthly plan. No retainer, no clock running in the background, no charge until you approve the scope.

Credits exist because the agent already did the expensive part. It knows your account, so the plan is written before anyone starts and the engineer is executing a spec, not investigating. That is why a credit costs a quarter of what a DevOps hire costs you loaded — and it is why credits are only sold to subscribers: without the agent there is no plan, and without the plan the price would not work. Anything over 8 credits stops being credits and comes back as a fixed quote.

🏗️ Architecture & migrations 🔧 Incident fixes
💸 Cost cleanup 🛡️ Security remediation
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What it changed for them

Four things keep coming up when clients describe what the agent, the monitoring and the audit did to their AWS account: the bill, the speed, the security holes, and finally being able to see what is running.

Cost
“We brought in the AWS DevOps agent expecting basic automation help, but the real win was our AWS bill — it dropped noticeably within the first couple of months without us sacrificing performance.”
Jones Software
Performance
“Our infrastructure just runs better now. Response times improved across the board and we stopped getting paged for issues that used to eat up our nights.”
GovDash
Security
“The security review alone was worth it. They found gaps in our AWS setup we didn’t know existed and helped us close them fast.”
InstaLILY AI
Visibility
“For the first time, we actually have a clear picture of our AWS architecture. It used to feel like a black box — now we know exactly what’s running and why.”
Addition Wealth
Visibility
“Honestly the biggest value was visibility. We went from guessing what was happening in our environment to having a full, clear view of everything.”
Known
Cost
“Cost savings were immediate and kept compounding. What impressed us most was that nothing broke in the process.”
C6 Capital
Performance
“Performance-wise, this was the upgrade we didn’t know we needed. Pages load faster, workloads run smoother, and our team isn’t firefighting anymore.”
New York Tribeca Group
Security
“They tightened up our security posture in ways our internal team hadn’t gotten to. Peace of mind, basically.”
Accompany Capital
Visibility
“We finally understand our own architecture. That sounds basic, but it changed how we make decisions about scaling.”
Heretto
Cost
“The combination of cost reduction and better performance felt like it shouldn’t be possible at the same time — but that’s what we got.”
Strategic Financial Services
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The questions everyone asks

Short answers. If yours isn't here, reply to any email and you'll get a real one.

What access do you need to my AWS?

A read-only IAM role that you create, in your account, locked to my identity with a secret only we share. I cannot change a single resource with it, and you delete it whenever you like. Because the plan includes monitoring, there is a second role that can write — but only to create the CloudWatch alarms and their SNS topic, only during setup, and I ask you to delete it once it works.

Is my data going into a model?

No. The agent runs on your own API key, in an instance dedicated to you, and reads your account through that read-only role. Nothing is pooled with another client and nothing trains anything.

What if I want to stop?

Stop paying. There is no contract, no notice period and no cancellation fee — nothing is charged automatically, so stopping is simply not paying next month. Delete the IAM role and I am out of your account entirely.

Why is monitoring monthly and not a one-off setup?

Because it isn't a one-off job. An account changes every week — new services, new spend, new people — and alert thresholds that were right in January are noise by March. The $149/mo keeps them tuned and keeps the pipelines watched, rather than handing you a config that quietly rots. It is billed as part of the $349/mo plan.

Why is the $599 audit free?

Because it is the first thing the agent needs. It answers questions about your account, and monitoring decides what is worth alerting on — neither works well until someone has read the account once. Charging separately for the step that makes the rest work was the wrong shape.

How long until it is actually working?

The agent is live in your Slack within 24 hours of you creating the role. The audit lands in the same window.

What if it finds nothing?

The audit costs you nothing either way, so there is nothing to refund there. On the plan, it is month to month — a month that gave you nothing is a month you do not renew, and nothing is charged automatically.

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Audit free · Monitoring included · Cancel anytime · Nothing charged before work is delivered

Why Teams Choose David

Not a faceless agency. One expert who owns the outcome.

24-Hour Delivery

Big 4 firms take 2–4 weeks. You get your full report the next business day — ready to act on immediately.

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Actionable, Not Academic

Every finding includes the exact AWS CLI command to fix it. No vague recommendations or "hire us again" upsells.

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AI-Augmented Delivery

AI tooling accelerates analysis so you get faster, deeper coverage at lower cost — without sacrificing expert judgment.

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Read-Only Access Only

Audits use a scoped read-only IAM role with ExternalID. I cannot modify a single resource in your account.

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ROI in Days

Average client saves $2,400/month after the AWS audit — and the audit is free. The $349/mo plan pays for itself several times over in the first month of savings.

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First Month, No Risk

If the audit doesn't surface at least 3 critical issues worth more than a month of the plan, say so and that month isn't billed. The audit is free either way.

Ready when you are

The agent is live in your Slack within 24 hours, the monitoring goes up with it, and the $599 audit is yours at no cost. Cancel any month you like — nothing is charged automatically. Still weighing it up? Book a call instead and I'll tell you plainly whether it fits.

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The 30-Point AWS Security Checklist

The same checklist I run on client accounts before I find, on average, issues worth more than the audit itself. Drop your email and I'll send it over — work through it in an afternoon.

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