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Cloud Bill Sanity Check

Send us one month of cloud billing and we will tell you what looks wrong and what it would save to fix.

Delivered in

3 working days

Revisions

One round, included

Ownership

Yours from day one

Overview

What this engagement is

A quick read on whether your cloud spend is reasonable for what you run. Export one month of billing data, tell us roughly what the workload is, and we will pick out the lines that do not fit: an oversized database, cross-zone data transfer, storage tiers left on the default, an environment somebody forgot to shut down. This is a skim rather than an audit, so it will not find everything, but it usually finds enough to pay for itself many times over.

Deliverables

What lands in your repositories

6 items
  • Review of one month of billing data across your cloud provider
  • The 5 most questionable line items, with our reasoning
  • Estimated monthly saving against each item
  • A view on whether your spend is normal for a workload of your shape
  • Note on whether a full cost audit would be worth the money
  • Written summary sent by email

Outcomes

What changes once it ships

A quick outside opinion on whether your bill is sane

Obvious waste identified in days for the price of a dinner

An honest answer on whether deeper work would pay for itself

Process

How the 4 stages run

  1. 01

    Send

    you export the billing detail and describe the workload briefly

  2. 02

    Review

    an engineer reads the bill against the architecture you describe

  3. 03

    Rank

    the questionable lines are ordered by what each is worth per month

  4. 04

    Report

    a written summary of what looks wrong and what to do about it

Booked most often by

  • Founders whose cloud bill has quietly doubled
  • Finance teams with no technical view on infrastructure spend
  • Anyone wondering whether a full cost audit is justified

What we need from you

  • A billing export for one full month, ideally with resource-level detail
  • A few lines describing what you run and roughly how much traffic you get

These are collected in the technical brief that opens in your dashboard the moment payment clears. The clock starts when they arrive, not before.

Answers

Questions this engagement raises

The audit examines three months against live utilisation and models commitments. This is one month, read by eye, giving the headlines.

We will tell you that, which is a legitimate result and saves you spending more on an audit you do not need.

Yes, and Digital Ocean or Hetzner too.

This is engineering work, not a physical product — nothing ships and there is no stock to run out of. Delivery is to the working days stated above, into systems you control, and the refund terms set out what happens if we miss the date.

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Capacity open this month

Read the scope. Know the price. Start on Monday.

No discovery calls to find out a number, no statements of work that take three weeks to sign. Pick the engagement that matches the problem and we assign the engineers.