Technology / Cloud Infrastructure Optimization
An Azure subscription here, an AWS account there, a service someone spun up two years ago that's still running and nobody's quite sure who owns it anymore. Zolix exists to find exactly where that gap is - and unlike most infrastructure optimization services, it does it continuously, not as a one-time engagement.
Idle resources
Orphaned & unattached storage
Rightsizing gaps
Over- and under-provisioned
Ownership gaps
No clear owner assigned
Roughly a quarter to a third of cloud spend typically goes toward unused or oversized resources.
The Cost of Infrastructure Nobody's Watching Closely
Industry cost-benchmarking research consistently points to roughly a quarter to a third of cloud spend going toward unused or oversized resources - for a team spending $10,000 a month on infrastructure, that's on the order of $2,500 to $3,000 evaporating monthly, or upward of $30,000 a year that could otherwise be funding actual growth.
And that's just the cost dimension. The same drift that wastes budget also tends to degrade performance and quietly widen security gaps, because all three problems usually come from the same root cause: infrastructure that changes faster than anyone's actively reviewing it.
How Zolix Approaches Infrastructure Optimization
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Zolix starts with a full read of what's actually running: every resource across every connected account, spend broken down by service and workload, utilization patterns over time, and where configuration has drifted from what was originally intended. Nothing gets touched during this phase.
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Findings get organized by impact and implementation risk, with cost recommendations kept separate from architectural ones, since they carry different timelines and different levels of risk.
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Execution starts with changes that carry effectively no downside - idle resource cleanup, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage, unattached storage - before moving into rightsizing and architectural adjustments.
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Once the initial cleanup is done, infrastructure keeps changing, and optimization has to keep pace with it. Zolix continues monitoring usage, spend, and configuration drift on an ongoing basis.
What Zolix Actually Looks For
The gradual gap between what your infrastructure was intended to look like and what it's actually become - accounts, subscriptions, and services that have quietly diverged from their original setup over time.
Unused compute, unattached storage volumes, and services nobody remembers provisioning, all still generating a bill every month regardless of whether anyone's using them.
Resources sized for a load they no longer carry - either over-provisioned well past actual need, or under-provisioned in a way that's quietly hurting performance under peak conditions.
Infrastructure with no clear owner tends to be the infrastructure nobody optimizes, because there's no one whose job it is to notice. Zolix surfaces these ownership gaps directly.
The same drift that creates cost waste often creates security exposure - permissions that outlived their purpose, resources exposed more broadly than intended. Zolix flags these alongside cost findings.
Built to Keep Pace
Most infrastructure optimization engagements are structured as a project - an assessment, a report, an implementation phase, and then a return to business as usual until someone remembers to schedule the next review. Zolix is built as a continuous practice instead. Read-only monitoring runs in the background permanently, so new drift, new waste, and new risk get caught as they emerge, not discovered eighteen months later during the next scheduled audit.
What teams see after connecting to Zolix
24 Hours
to a first comprehensive infrastructure assessment across every connected account.
Phased Recommendations
ranked by impact and risk, so teams know what to act on first without being overwhelmed by a single massive list.
Zero Write Access
Zolix operates entirely read-only, with no changes made to your infrastructure without explicit approval.
All three. Configuration drift, idle resources, and rightsizing gaps tend to affect cost, performance, and security simultaneously, so Zolix surfaces findings across all three rather than treating cost in isolation.
Ongoing. After the initial assessment and implementation phases, Zolix continues monitoring for new drift, waste, and risk as your infrastructure keeps changing.
By impact and implementation risk. Low-risk, high-impact changes like idle resource cleanup are surfaced first, with architectural changes handled separately since they carry different timelines.
No. Zolix's model is read-only throughout. Recommendations come with enough detail for your team to implement directly.
By cross-referencing usage patterns, tagging, and account activity to flag infrastructure that doesn't map clearly to an active owner or team.
Most teams receive a comprehensive first assessment within 24 hours of connecting their accounts.
Connect your accounts through read-only access and get a complete assessment of cost, performance, and security gaps - with a roadmap that starts with the changes that carry the least risk.