Community pilot · Fall 2026
A free, read-only AWS cost check for local businesses
For businesses in Forsyth County and North Atlanta that run on AWS. We find what is costing you money for no reason and show what each fix would save per month. It is free, and Cloudlink cannot change anything in your account.
How it works
Step 1
Create an account
Sign up at cloudlinkglobal.com. No credit card.
Step 2
Connect AWS (about 5 minutes)
Download our CloudFormation template and deploy it in your account. It creates one read-only role. We can do this with you on a call.
Step 3
Run a scan
Cloudlink lists what is costing money without doing anything useful, with a monthly dollar amount next to each item.
Step 4
You decide what to fix
Cloudlink never changes your account. You apply the fixes you agree with, and we are happy to walk through them.
Exactly what Cloudlink can see
The role our template creates can read how your infrastructure is configured and what it costs. It cannot read your data, and it has no permission to change anything.
Can see
- EC2 instance, volume, security group, VPC and subnet settings
- CloudWatch usage metrics (for spotting idle resources)
- Your AWS bill, through Cost Explorer
- The list of S3 buckets and bucket-level settings (encryption, versioning, public access)
- RDS database instance and cluster settings
- The list of Lambda functions and their settings
Cannot see or do
- The contents of your S3 files
- Records inside your databases
- Your Lambda function code
- Create, change, stop or delete anything, in any service
One detail: when listing Lambda functions, AWS includes each function's environment variables in the response. Cloudlink keeps only the name, runtime, memory size, code size and last-modified date. It does not store environment variables.
The full permission list (22 actions)
Every action is a Describe, Get or List call. The role can only be used with the External ID you choose, so no one else can use it.
- ec2:DescribeInstances
- ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus
- ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups
- ec2:DescribeVpcs
- ec2:DescribeSubnets
- ec2:DescribeVolumes
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- ec2:DescribeTags
- cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- ce:GetCostAndUsage
- ce:GetCostForecast
- s3:ListAllMyBuckets
- s3:GetBucketLocation
- s3:GetBucketPublicAccessBlock
- s3:GetBucketEncryption
- s3:GetBucketVersioning
- s3:GetBucketAcl
- rds:DescribeDBInstances
- rds:DescribeDBClusters
- lambda:ListFunctions
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
Your data
Where it is stored
Scan results are stored in our Postgres database, hosted by Supabase on AWS in US East (N. Virginia).
What we keep to connect
Only the role ARN and External ID, encrypted. We never ask for your AWS password or access keys.
Cut off access anytime
Delete the CloudFormation stack in your AWS account. Access ends immediately, without asking us.
Delete your data
Remove the connection in your dashboard, then email satvikranga60@gmail.com and we will delete your scan data within 48 hours.
Questions
Your pricing page mentions 15% of savings. Does that apply?
No. The pilot is free. We are not asking for payment or a card, and nothing turns into a paid plan later. If we ever offer a paid version, we would ask you first and you would be free to say no.
AWS already has Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer. Why use this?
Those tools are useful, but they are spread across several consoles and most small teams rarely check them. Cloudlink puts the waste in one list with a monthly dollar amount on each item, and during the pilot we walk through the results with you ourselves.
What do you want in return?
Honest feedback: what was useful, what was confusing, and what you would act on. If the results are helpful, we may ask whether we can mention your business. We only do that with your explicit permission.
Who is behind this?
Cloudlink is built by high school students in Forsyth County, Georgia. This pilot is how we are learning whether it helps real businesses.
Want to try it?
Sign up on your own, or email us and we will set it up with you on a 15-minute call.
Cloudlink's findings and savings estimates are informational. You decide which changes to make in your own account. See our Terms and Privacy Policy.