Your Cloud Bill Has a Hidden Refund. We Find It. You Keep Most Of It.
Cloud Cost Optimization & Data Governance
Data Warehouse · Data Lakehouse · Medallion Architecture
From Data Chaos to Data Intelligence
We find your cloud waste. You keep 65–75% of what we save.
Your fragmented, over-budget cloud environment transformed into a governed, cost-optimized infrastructure that actually delivers business value — built on 134+ years of experience across healthcare, financial services, aerospace, and Fortune 500 retail.
UnitedHealth · Vanguard · Boeing · MasterCard · Rocket Mortgage · Target
48-Hour Audit. $10K+ Savings Guaranteed.
We guarantee we find at least $10,000/year in cloud savings within 48 hours of our discovery call. If we don't? You still walk away with a custom best practices & efficiency roadmap valued at $5,000+. Nothing to lose. Everything to gain.
Data, AI & Cloud Training
Training Built for
Real Careers
Professional training, career counselling & student programs — taught by engineers who've built production systems at IBM, Boeing, Vanguard, and AWS under strict HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, and GLBA compliance requirements.
134 Years
Combined Enterprise Experience
10–50%
Yearly Cloud Spend Saved
15+
Fortune 500 Engagements
100%
On-Time Delivery
The Problem
Cloud Waste Is an Enterprise-Scale Problem
Industry research shows organizations waste 30% or more of their cloud spend. Here's where the money disappears.
Overprovisioned Compute
Clusters and instances running at full capacity for workloads that peak 8 hours a day. Wasted spend compounds silently — and your board will eventually ask why.
Unoptimized Query Patterns
Poorly structured SQL and untuned warehouses burning 3–5× the necessary compute credits. Every billing cycle. Your team built it fast — not efficiently.
Misaligned Storage Tiers
Hot-tier pricing for cold data. Missing lifecycle policies. Redundant snapshots. Silent, compounding cost — until finance puts it on the agenda.
Our Framework
The 8 Data Efficiency Principles
Every engagement is guided by these eight principles — the same framework behind every dollar we've saved for our clients.
Compute Right-Sizing
Eliminate over-provisioned instances and match compute to actual workload demand.
Query Optimization
Restructure SQL, tune warehouse configurations, and cut query costs by 3–5x.
Storage Tiering
Move cold data off hot-tier pricing and enforce lifecycle policies that stop silent cost growth.
Workload Isolation
Separate dev, staging, and production workloads to prevent resource contention and cost bleed.
Index & Partition Strategy
Design partitioning and indexing that accelerates queries and reduces scan costs.
Data Pipeline & Process Design
Design quality-first data pipelines, streamline ETL/ELT processes, and eliminate redundant jobs.
Cost Governance
Implement tagging, budgets, alerts, and chargeback models that make cloud spend visible and accountable.
Continuous Optimization
Ongoing monitoring and tuning — not a one-time fix, but a sustained cost reduction engine.
Zero Cost · Zero Obligation · Zero Risk
Cloud 8 Data Efficiency Audit
A full-spectrum evaluation across all 8 dimensions of your cloud infrastructure — delivered in a detailed savings blueprint.
Compute
Right-size every instance
Storage
Eliminate tier waste
Queries
Cut credits by 3–5x
Architecture
Warehouse & lakehouse
Workloads
Isolate & optimize
Governance
Budgets & accountability
Pipelines
ETL/ELT efficiency
Scheduling
Job orchestration
Our team brings enterprise data experience from organizations such as
UnitedHealth · Vanguard · Boeing · MasterCard · Rocket Mortgage · Target
How It Works
We Only Win When You Win
Performance-based pricing that completely eliminates your risk. If your cloud spend doesn't go down, you don't pay. And even if it doesn't — you still leave with something valuable.
Free Infrastructure Audit (48-Hour Turnaround)
30-minute discovery call, followed by a 48-hour deep analysis of your cloud infrastructure — compute utilization, warehouse consumption, query patterns, storage tiers, and pipeline efficiency. We guarantee we find at least $10,000/year in savings, or we buy you lunch. Zero cost. Zero obligation.
Savings Blueprint + Best Practices Roadmap
Whether we find $50K or $5M in savings — or nothing at all — you receive a detailed findings report, a prioritized optimization roadmap, and a custom best practices plan your team can act on immediately. You win either way.
We Implement. You Keep Most of It.
We execute the optimizations end to end. You keep 65–75% of every dollar saved. Our fee is 25–35% of verified, documented reductions only. No savings = no invoice. Simple. Aligned. Accountable.
Core Capabilities
The Critical Work Behind Enterprise Data
While others deliver strategy decks, we design and implement the data quality processes, governance frameworks, and security controls that determine whether enterprise systems actually perform.
Data Quality & Process Design
We design data quality processes from the ground up — validation rules, cleansing pipelines, standardization frameworks — so your data is trustworthy before it ever reaches a dashboard or model.
Data Governance & Compliance
Every record properly tagged, classified by sensitivity level, and catalogued for regulatory discovery and compliance auditing.
Enterprise-Grade Reliability
Production-grade pipelines with automated testing, lineage tracking, and runbooks your team can actually maintain after we hand off.
Why This Matters
Most AI initiatives fail not because of the model, but because of the underlying data. Before any organization can be AI-ready, its data must be cleansed, classified, encrypted, and governed.
We've spent our careers designing and executing this work at Fortune 500 scale. We understand what enterprise data quality and governance actually requires — not the strategy, but the process design and implementation.
The Transformation
From Data Chaos to Data Intelligence
We take your fragmented, siloed data environment and transform it into a governed, cost-optimized infrastructure that actually delivers business value.
Data Silos
Fragmented, duplicated, unorganized
Governed & Secured
Cleansed, classified, encrypted
Optimized & Delivering
Cost-efficient, fast, compliant
0+
Petabytes of Data Migrated
0B+
Records Cleansed & Masked
RBAC
Secured with Role-Based Access Policies
0+
ETL Processes Optimized
Our Leadership
Practitioners. Not Consultants.
Our leadership team has held senior technical roles inside the organizations we now serve. We've shipped production data systems at Fortune 500 scale — across healthcare, finance, government, supply chain, and education. We know what works because we built it.
19 years of data architecture leadership — 15 dedicated to data engineering, modeling, and strategy
10 years in finance and mortgage — deep SOX, GLBA, and RESPA compliance experience
Direct senior roles at 3 Fortune 500 companies: IBM, Rocket Mortgage, Vanguard, Boeing, MasterCard, UnitedHealth, and more
Active Cloud and AI conference speakers and presenters — we don't just do this work, we teach it
End-to-end delivery across healthcare (HIPAA), government (FedRAMP/FISMA), education (FERPA), and supply chain
80+ years combined DataStage and ETL expertise. Resolved critical production issues that platform vendors could not
Multiple AWS, Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks certifications across the team
134 years of combined enterprise data experience — not one resume, an entire firm
"Our team has saved Fortune 500 companies millions through architectural optimization and database tuning. We know exactly where enterprises waste money — and how to eliminate it. We've done it from the inside. Now we do it for you."
CEO & Chief Data Architect
Cloud 8 Data & HM Tech One
CEO & Chief Data Architect
HM Tech One & Cloud 8 Data
19 yrs Data · 10 yrs Finance/Mortgage · Cloud & AI Conference Speaker
Our CEO leads all client engagements and technical strategy. With 19 years of data leadership — spanning healthcare, financial services, mortgage, government, supply chain, and education — the practice is built on end-to-end ownership: from raw data curation all the way to the executive dashboards that drive decisions. This isn't a firm built on case studies. It's built on hands-on delivery.
Organizations Our Team Has Served
Case Study
Enterprise Mortgage Lender — Full Platform Migration
A Fortune 500 mortgage lender engaged Cloud 8 Data to modernize their data infrastructure and reduce operational costs.
Challenge
- Legacy Oracle database systems nearing end-of-life
- Unsustainable data warehouse operating costs
- 650+ inefficient ETL processes impacting SLAs
Solution
- Full migration to Snowflake with zero-downtime cutover
- End-to-end optimization of 650+ ETL processes
- Implemented automated cost governance and monitoring
$0M+
Annual Cost Reduction
0+
TB Successfully Migrated
0%
Performance Improvement
0+
Year Ongoing Partnership
Measurable Impact
What Optimization Looks Like Over Time
Our engagements deliver continuous, compounding improvements. Here's how cost and latency typically trend once we begin.
Cloud Cost Reduction
Typical cloud spend trajectory
Average 25% reduction in cloud spend
Average Query Latency Reduction
Query performance improvement over time
90–99% reduction in reporting latency
Pricing
You Only Pay When You Save
Performance-based pricing that completely eliminates your risk. Choose the engagement model that fits your needs.
Every offer comes with a written guarantee. No fine print.
Free Cloud Cost Audit
We Find Your Cloud Waste in 30 Minutes. Guaranteed.
A 30-minute call to understand your environment, followed by a 48-hour deep analysis of your cloud infrastructure. You receive a detailed report with waste areas, optimization opportunities, estimated savings, and a prioritized action plan.
- 30-minute discovery call
- 48-hour engineering analysis
- Detailed savings report
- Prioritized action plan
- Custom best practices roadmap (valued at $5,000+)
Guarantee: We guarantee we find at least $10,000/year in cloud savings, or we buy you lunch.
Performance-Based Optimization
We Cut Your Cloud Bill. You Only Pay When You Save.
We implement optimization recommendations and measure savings against a 3-month baseline. You only pay a percentage of the documented, verified savings we deliver.
- Under $100K/year savings: 35% to Cloud 8
- $100K-$500K/year savings: 30% to Cloud 8
- Over $500K/year savings: 25% to Cloud 8
- 90-day measurement period
- You keep 65-75% of every dollar saved
Guarantee: If we don't find and implement savings that exceed $25,000/year, you pay nothing. Zero. We eat our own cost.
Advisory Credits
Buy Expert Time Like You Buy Cloud Credits.
Purchase blocks of expert time at discounted rates. Use credits for training, troubleshooting, architecture review, code review, or optimization. 1 credit = 1 hour with a certified cloud and data expert.
- 10 credits: $2,500 ($250/hr)
- 25 credits: $5,000 ($200/hr) - 20% savings
- 50 credits: $8,750 ($175/hr) - 30% savings
- 100 credits: $15,000 ($150/hr) - 40% savings
- Valid for 12 months
Guarantee: Unused credits are fully refundable for 90 days after purchase. After 90 days, unused credits can be transferred to another organization.
Cloud Health Check Subscription
Your Cloud Infrastructure. Monitored. Optimized. Monthly.
Monthly automated scans, quarterly deep-dive reviews with a senior engineer, actionable reports, real-time cost anomaly alerts, and an annual architecture review.
- Starter (1 account): $2,000/mo
- Growth (3-5 accounts): $4,000/mo
- Enterprise (unlimited): $7,500/mo
- Quarterly deep-dive with senior engineer
- Slack/Teams cost anomaly alerts
Guarantee: If savings we identify in your first quarter don't exceed your subscription cost by at least 3X, we refund the quarter entirely.
Platform Expertise
Technologies We Optimize
Data Warehouses
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- AWS Redshift
- Google BigQuery
Databases
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
Cloud Platforms
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
ETL & Integration
- DataStage (80+ yrs team exp.)
- Azure Data Factory
- AWS Glue
Why Cloud 8 Data
We Built This Model So You Have No Reason to Say No
Performance-based pricing. Senior-only delivery. And a guarantee that means you walk away with something valuable no matter what we find.
You Only Pay From What You Save
Zero financial risk. Zero upfront cost. We guarantee at least $10,000/year in savings or you pay nothing. Our fee is 25–35% of verified savings only. Plus, advisory credits, health check subscriptions, and training options to fit any engagement model.
We've Done This From the Inside
Our team held senior technical roles at the same organizations you're trying to optimize. 19 years of data leadership. 134 years combined. We don't theorize about enterprise cloud architecture — we built it.
Small Firm. Enterprise-Grade Results.
We're not Deloitte. That's the point. No 200-person teams, no offshore delivery, no junior consultants learning on your budget. Senior practitioners. Direct access. And we thrive on repeat clients — not one-and-done transactions.
Get Started
You Have Everything to Gain. Nothing to Lose. That's the Guarantee.
We audit your cloud infrastructure for free — not a 10-minute scan, a real engineering review by senior practitioners who’ve done this at Fortune 500 scale. If we find savings, we implement them and take 25–35% of what we save you. You keep 65–75%. If we find nothing? You still walk away with a custom best practices and efficiency roadmap worth $5,000+. We’re a small firm that thrives on repeat clients — not one-and-done transactions.
48-hour turnaround · $10K+ savings guaranteed · You only pay when you save