Cloud Cost Optimization Audit
A full audit of cloud spend with a governance playbook that stops waste returning. Rightsizing, commitment strategy, tagging and automated cleanup.
What the audit covers
- Full account audit — waste, idle resources, orphaned volumes, stale snapshots, unattached IPs. The line items that accumulate when nobody is looking.
- Rightsizing across the estate — driven by observed utilization over a representative window, not the size someone picked at provisioning time. This was the single largest line item on an enterprise audit that cut spend ~40%.
- Reserved and savings plan modelling — the right mix of committed capacity for predictable baseline load, on-demand for normal variation and spot for interruptible work.
- Tagging and governance policy — ownership as a provisioning requirement, so future resources arrive attributable and nobody has to guess whether something is safe to delete.
- Scheduled cleanup automation — non-production environments running outside working hours, orphaned resources, aged snapshots.
- Cost reporting and alerting — centralized reporting that exports to the format your finance and delivery teams already use. Adoption beats elegance.
What makes this different
An audit that delivers only a number decays within two quarters. What stops the climb is making spend visible and attributable continuously.
On an enterprise SaaS estate, the initial rightsizing produced a ~40% reduction. Spend is still ~33% below the original baseline as platform workload has grown — because the tagging policy, automation and cost reporting are what convert a cut into a sustained position.
How it works
A fixed-scope engagement: 1–2 weeks. You get a written report with findings ranked by impact, a governance playbook and implementation support.
If there is nothing meaningful to find, the report says so in writing — and you keep the governance playbook either way.