Cloud Cost Audit
Find What Your Cloud Estate Is Wasting
Cloud spend rarely jumps because of one obvious mistake. It accumulates through architecture decisions, workload growth, unused capacity and configurations nobody has had time to revisit. This audit gives you an independent, fixed-scope view of where the money is going and what is realistically worth changing.
Problem We Solve
Your AWS, GCP or Azure bill has grown — but so has the engineering backlog. Cost optimisation gets discussed and dashboards get checked, but nobody has time to work through the estate and separate meaningful savings from theoretical ones. We do that investigation and turn it into an implementation-ready set of decisions.
What We Deliver
- A structured review of your cloud spend and the architecture behind it
- Identification of avoidable, idle and poorly utilised spend
- A prioritised list of recommended changes
- Expected saving, implementation effort and risk against each recommendation
- Quick wins separated from changes needing deeper engineering work
- Findings you can implement internally, with us, or with anyone else
How It Works
- Start with a free 15-minute assessment — a short screen-share to establish whether there’s enough of a problem to justify an audit. If there isn’t, we’ll say so.
- If there is, we agree a fixed scope and a fixed fee before any work begins.
- Access is read-only. No agent to install, no monitoring platform to deploy, and no security review needed just to begin.
- We investigate the agreed estate over two weeks.
- You receive the findings, with saving, effort and risk attached to every recommended change.
What It's Not:
This is not another cloud monitoring product that needs installing and maintaining, and it is not a free assessment designed to move your cloud contract onto a reseller.
The audit is the service — independent, fixed-scope, and built to leave you with a useful deliverable rather than an ongoing dependency.
No billing migration, no managed-service commitment, no retainer required.
Where It Helps:
- CTOs watching cloud cost rise faster than revenue or usage
- VPs of Engineering balancing infrastructure efficiency against product delivery
- Heads of Platform who know the opportunities exist but can’t pull engineers off roadmap work to find them
- Recently funded software businesses putting stronger controls around a rapidly scaled platform
- Teams wanting an independent second view before committing to a larger optimisation programme
case example
How a UK Telecom Team Cut SLA Breaches By 95%
Our technical co-founder spent nine months on a cloud cost and data programme at Lebara, a UK telecom, working as a contractor on their platform. The programme included a hands-on Databricks-versus-Synapse comparison to establish the most cost-effective architecture, alongside rebuilding brittle, monolithic pipelines on Azure Data Factory and Synapse using a Data Mesh approach.
Outcome:
- SLA breaches reduced by 95%
- Higher data quality and completeness
- Delivered in under 3 quarters
Cloud cost is rarely understandable from a billing export alone. Architecture, workloads and engineering trade-offs have to be read together — which is what this experience brings to the audit.
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