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Tech Advisory TL-ADV-103

Cloud Bill Sanity Check

Send one month of cloud billing data and we will point out what looks wrong and roughly what fixing it would save.

Timeline
3 working days
Deliverables
6 listed
Practice
Tech Advisory
Fixed fee
₹999
01Overview

What this engagement delivers

A quick assessment of whether your cloud spend is reasonable for what you run. Export a month of billing data, describe the workload, and we will highlight the lines that look out of place, such as an oversized database, cross-zone data transfer, default storage tiers or a forgotten environment. This is a focused review rather than a full audit, so it will not catch everything, but it shows whether deeper work is likely to be worthwhile.

02Deliverables 6 items

What you receive

  1. Review of one month of billing data across your cloud provider
  2. The 5 most questionable line items, with our reasoning
  3. Estimated monthly saving against each item
  4. A view on whether your spend is normal for a workload of your shape
  5. Note on whether a full cost audit would be worth the money
  6. Written summary sent by email
03Process

How the work runs, in 4 stages

  1. Stage 1: Send

    You export the billing detail and describe the workload briefly

  2. Stage 2: Review

    An engineer reads the bill against the architecture you describe

  3. Stage 3: Rank

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

  4. Stage 4: Report

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

04Fit & inputs

Who it suits, and what we need from you

Ideal for

  • 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

You provide these through the technical brief in your dashboard after checkout.

05Benefits

What changes for your team

  • 01

    A quick outside view on whether your bill is reasonable

  • 02

    Obvious waste identified within days at a low fixed price

  • 03

    A clear view of whether a deeper audit would pay for itself

06FAQ

Questions about this engagement

The audit examines three months against live utilisation and models commitment purchases. This check reviews one month by hand and reports the headlines.

We will say so. That is a useful result, and it saves you paying for an audit you do not need.

Yes, as well as DigitalOcean and Hetzner.

This is a remote engineering engagement — nothing is shipped physically. Work is delivered into systems you control. See delivery & handover and refunds & cancellation for the full terms.

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