AWS cost, security and reliability — in one assessment
Your AWS bill went up £1,240 last month. Which three changes did it?
Zenora connects your AWS cost, security and reliability signals and tells your team what to fix first — with the evidence behind every recommendation.
Built for UK companies running real AWS workloads without a dedicated FinOps, security and platform team.
- Read-only by default
- Least-privilege IAM role you deploy and control
- Revoke it whenever you like
- No AWS access keys, ever
- Cost
- Security
- Reliability
- Changes
- Evidence
- 1CriticalSEC-RDS-001
Database is publicly accessible
production · exposed · ~15 min fix
- 2£1,140/moCOST-SP-001
Steady compute is running at on-demand rates
90 days steady · high confidence
- 3MediumREL-NAT-001
Other availability zones depend on this NAT gateway
eu-west-2b · single point of egress
Ranked by financial impact, exposure, reliability risk, production status, confidence and time to fix.
Zenora is built by Zenora Integration Solutions Ltd, a UK-registered company (No. 16983688) based in Leeds. Zenora is early. You will work directly with the engineer who builds it. Every finding in your report is traceable to a specific AWS API response, and you can check our arithmetic.
AWS gives you the signals. Nobody connects them.
Your bill moves and nobody can say exactly why.
Cost Explorer shows spend went up. CloudTrail shows what changed. Joining the two is a manual afternoon, so it doesn't happen.
Security findings pile up faster than you can triage them.
Two hundred findings with no ranking is the same as none. Your team needs to know which three matter this week.
Nobody finds the resilience gap until the outage.
The database without automated backups looks exactly like the one with them — until the morning it doesn't.
Zenora turns AWS signals into a ranked list of decisions.
Ask your AWS environment a question.
Every number Zenora gives you links to the AWS API response it came from. When the evidence is thin, Zenora says so instead of guessing.
You
Why did our AWS bill increase after Tuesday's deployment?
Zenora
Spend rose about £1,240 week on week. Three changes account for roughly £980 of that — 79% of the increase.
- EC2three new instances
- +£560
- RDSinstance size change
- +£250
- NAT and data transferhigher egress
- +£170
The remaining ~£260 isn’t attributable to a specific change.
Two of the new instances show CPU below 9% over six days. That's a short window — I'd re-check at 14 days before resizing.
Illustrative demo data.
Don’t add another dashboard. Add a decision layer.
Understand
Know what changed in your AWS environment, and when.
Correlate
See cost, security and reliability as one picture, not three tabs.
Prioritise
Get five actions ranked by impact, effort and risk.
Act safely
Evidence-backed remediation plans. Nothing changes without your approval.
Know what to fix first.
Zenora ranks every finding using financial impact, security exposure, reliability risk, production status, confidence and how long the fix takes. Your report lists which of those inputs were available for each finding, so you can see why something ranked where it did — and where the ranking had less to go on.
- CriticalSEC-RDS-001
Database is publicly accessible
- Why it matters
- A production database reachable from the internet is the shortest path between a scan and a breach. It outranks every cost finding on the list regardless of what they are worth.
- Evidence
- RDS instance has PubliclyAccessible true and a security group admitting 0.0.0.0/0 on the database port.
- Confidence
- High
- £1,140/moCOST-SP-001
Steady compute is running at on-demand rates
- Why it matters
- Baseline compute that has not moved in three months is the safest saving available — it needs no architectural change and nothing is resized.
- Evidence
- Ninety days of consistent on-demand spend, with Cost Explorer's own Savings Plans recommendation as the basis for the figure.
- Confidence
- High
Illustrative figures. Rule identifiers and titles are real.
From AWS signals to an action plan.
- 1
Connect
Deploy our read-only role with CloudFormation or Terraform. Ten minutes.
- 2
Analyse
Zenora examines cost, security, reliability and change signals across your accounts.
- 3
Correlate
Related changes, costs and risks are linked into single findings.
- 4
Prioritise
The highest-impact actions become your Fix First list.
- 5
Review
We walk through the report with you and answer the awkward questions.
Powerful cloud intelligence shouldn’t need powerful cloud access.
Zenora is read-only by default and holds no AWS access keys.
- A cross-account IAM role you create and you can delete
- External ID protection against confused-deputy attacks
- We deliberately avoid AWS’s
ReadOnlyAccesspolicy — it permits reading your S3 objects - Explicit denies on your data, secrets, code and logs, which no permission can override
- Every action Zenora takes appears in your own CloudTrail
- Encrypted at rest and in transit · Tenant isolation · Full audit trail
- No production changes without your explicit approval
Zenora does not hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification and does not claim to. The security page sets out precisely what we do and don’t do with your data.
One price. No surprises.
AWS Cloud Health & Resilience Assessment
£1,995
One AWS account, assessed end to end: cost, security, reliability and operational risk. You get an executive summary, a ranked Fix First plan, full technical findings with evidence, a statement of what we could and could not assess, and a call to walk through it.
Typically delivered within five working days. Multi-account estates quoted.
Zenora Managed
from £1,500/month
Continuous monitoring, your daily Cloud Brief, Ask Zenora, monthly reporting and an engineering review. Usually starts after an assessment.
Scope and price depend on the size of your estate.
Prices shown are the amounts you pay. Zenora Integration Solutions Ltd is not currently VAT registered.
Find out what your AWS environment is costing you.
Ten minutes to connect. Read-only. Revoke whenever you like.