Cloud Spend Audits
Cloud baseline desk review
A two-week read of billing exports, tag hygiene, and service ownership so engineering leads see where capacity quietly stacks up.
What the briefing covers
We pair with your platform group to normalize naming, map major services to teams, and publish a readable baseline brief. The emphasis stays on engineering signals—queues, warm pools, and forgotten sandboxes—not headline totals alone.
Feature checklist
- Normalized tag dictionary aligned to your org chart
- Cross-account visibility map for shared foundations
- Warm workload inventory with retirement candidates
- Notebook of recurring anomalies with suggested owners
- Executive-ready brief that avoids numeric wall charts
- Handoff checklist for ongoing cloud cost ops cadence
- Risk coverage notes for incident-style spend spikes
Outcomes
- A single narrative baseline the whole leadership stack can reference
- Clear owners for the top twelve spend drivers we surfaced
- A prioritized shortlist for the savings roadmap workshop
Lead editor
Haneul Park
Former platform lead at a growth-stage SaaS firm; now focuses on cross-org workflow clarity for infra billing.
FAQ
Read-only exports are enough for the baseline. We avoid write access unless a separate change window is approved.
Desk notes from teams
The baseline brief named owners for shadow VPCs we had talked about for months. Still wish the appendix listed more container images, but the desk review gave us a shared vocabulary.
They refused to show splashy dashboards and instead walked our leads through notebooks—exactly the tone we needed.