Free Cloud Audit
Cloud Cost Audit
Most organisations waste 20–40% of their cloud budget. In 5–7 days we find exactly what you are spending unnecessarily — and hand you a prioritised plan to stop.
Where Your Cloud Budget Leaks
Six categories account for 90% of recoverable cloud waste. The audit analyses all of them, sized against your actual spend.
Idle Resources
Stopped instances, unattached volumes, and orphaned snapshots still billed.
Over-Provisioned Compute
Right-sizing VMs and containers to actual utilisation patterns.
On-Demand vs Commitment
Replacing on-demand pricing with Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and CUDs.
Data Transfer Costs
Egress charges, inter-AZ traffic, and CDN routing inefficiencies.
Licence Waste
Unused SaaS seats, over-licensed databases, and duplicate tooling.
Storage Tier Mismatch
Hot-tier storage holding cold data; S3 lifecycle policies missing.
Provider-by-Provider Review
- EC2 rightsizing and Reserved Instance coverage
- S3 lifecycle rules and Intelligent-Tiering
- RDS Multi-AZ and instance class review
- Savings Plans vs On-Demand analysis
- Idle NAT Gateways and Elastic IPs
- CloudFront and data transfer optimisation
- VM rightsizing and Reserved Instance review
- Azure Blob storage tier alignment
- Azure SQL and Cosmos DB DTU/RU sizing
- Hybrid Benefit and AHUB licence coverage
- Idle App Services and Function Apps
- Azure Advisor cost recommendations
- Committed Use Discounts vs On-Demand
- BigQuery slot and storage optimisation
- GKE node pool rightsizing
- Cloud Storage class review
- Cloud Run and App Engine efficiency
- Network egress and peering analysis
Ready to stop wasting cloud budget?
5–7 day turnaround. Read-only access only. Prioritised savings plan delivered.
How the Audit Works
- 1
Read-Only Access
We request read-only IAM/RBAC access to your billing and resource APIs. No production access required.
- 2
Automated Scan
Our FinOps tooling scans 200+ cost signals across all accounts, regions, and services in 48 hours.
- 3
Analyst Review
A senior FinOps engineer reviews findings, removes false positives, and sizes each opportunity.
- 4
Optimisation Plan
You receive a prioritised action list with estimated savings, risk, and implementation effort for each item.
- 5
Readout Call
A 60-minute call with your engineering and finance leads to walk through findings and agree next steps.
Savings Opportunities — Typical Output
Every audit delivers a prioritised table like this, sized to your actual environment.
| Category | Typical Savings | Implementation Effort | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idle resource termination | 12–18% | Low (1–2 days) | Low |
| Compute rightsizing | 10–20% | Medium (1–2 weeks) | Low–Medium |
| Reserved Instances / Savings Plans | 20–40% | Low (1 day) | Low |
| Storage tier alignment | 5–12% | Low (automated) | Low |
| Licence consolidation | 8–15% | Medium (2–4 weeks) | Low |
| Data transfer routing | 5–10% | High (architecture change) | Medium |
Cloud Optimisation Services
Common Questions
Cloud Cost Audit FAQs
Read-only access to your cloud billing APIs and cost explorer. For AWS: CostExplorer, BillingAndCostManagementDataExports, and ReadOnlyAccess. For Azure: Cost Management Reader on the subscription. For GCP: Billing Account Viewer and Viewer on projects. We do not need — and will not request — access to production workloads or customer data.
Works for Every Stage of Growth
Who is this audit for?
Startups
Pre-seed to Series B
Spending more on cloud than revenue? We identify which services to cut, right-size, or reserve — and deliver a savings plan before your next board meeting.
SMBs & Scale-ups
$5M–$50M ARR
Cloud bills growing faster than users? We find the 20–40% waste hiding in your current spend and implement FinOps practices that scale with your team.
Enterprise Teams
Mid-market & enterprise
Multi-cloud governance, reserved instance strategy, and an ongoing FinOps programme. Benchmarked against 612 enterprise cloud estates.
Request Your Free Cloud Cost Audit
5–7 business days. Read-only access. A prioritised savings plan you can act on immediately — whether or not you engage us for implementation.
Research Behind the Audit
Cloud Cost Intelligence from Our Research Team
Enterprise Cloud Cost Benchmark 2026
612 enterprises benchmarked
Coming SoonFinOps Benchmark Report 2026
Cloud spend efficiency metrics
Coming SoonMulti-Cloud Adoption Report 2026
524-org multi-cloud insights
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