A FinOps engineer, an SRE and a cloud security engineer cost about $500–600K a year (estimate). Sherpa gives the team you have what they would: answers across cost, security and operations, and a fix for every finding.



Security, cost, governance, operations and migration.
None of them talk to each other.
Days of work, out of date when it lands.
Last month's numbers, different answers.
IT leaders say more than half their cloud spend is wasted.VMware Private Cloud Outlook, 2025
of cloud security failures trace to customer misconfiguration.Gartner
of companies run six or more monitoring tools.Omdia Observability Survey, 2026

A FinOps engineer, an SRE and a cloud security engineer.
✕ About $500–600K a year, and hard to findA cost tool, a security scanner, monitoring tools.
✕ Six or more tools, no shared answerAn assessment and a report.
✕ A one-time snapshot; the knowledge leaves with themPaste in what you can.
✕ It can't see your accounts, so answers stay genericHolds your context, answers across every domain, and hands your team the fix.
✓ A full cloud team's results, at one annual price
The Sherpa Knowledge Graph answers across cost, security, inventory and performance.
Context, telemetry and multi-domain agents, working together.
Steps, AWS CLI, CloudFormation or Terraform, ranked by what matters.
Sherpa proposes; your team approves and applies.
Optimize, secure, operate, and plan your migrations.
An annual contract through AWS Marketplace or by invoice; works with your AWS partner.
One customer used Sherpa's Migration Assessment to see what server exports, measured usage and business context each add to an AWS migration price.

servers reviewed
servers the business agreed to move
three-year AWS cost, priced lines
of figures trace to a source


No. Sherpa gives the team you have what a cloud team would: answers across cost, security and operations, and a fix plan for each finding. Your team decides what to apply.
No. Sherpa reads your AWS data, including CloudWatch, and works alongside the tools you already use.
Your first cost data usually arrives within 24 to 48 hours of connecting your AWS organization.
It's our estimate of the yearly, fully loaded cost of a FinOps engineer, an SRE and a cloud security engineer.

On a 30-minute onboarding call, our team connects your AWS organization with you using one CloudFormation template. Your first cost data usually arrives within 24 to 48 hours.
After you sign up, a member of the Sherpa team contacts you within one business day to discuss your AWS environment and the right way to start.