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Cloud Cost and Reliability Reset

An inherited cloud estate mapped, attributed and right-sized, with the guardrails that stop the bill drifting back up once attention moves on.

To first findings
2 weeks
Spend attribution
Per team
Built with
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry

The problem

Most cloud bills are not a pricing problem. They are an architecture sized for a launch that never came and never revisited, plus a long tail of resources nobody has claimed in a year. The reason it persists is that spend is reported as one number, so no team can see their own share of it and no one is accountable for reducing it.

How we would sequence it

  1. 01Tag and attribute spend to teams, services and environments so the number stops being anonymous
  2. 02Right-size against measured load rather than against the original estimate
  3. 03Find and retire what is running unclaimed, with an owner sign-off before anything is deleted
  4. 04Put budgets, anomaly alerts and guardrails in place so drift is caught before the invoice
  5. 05Describe the remaining estate in Terraform so it is reviewable and rebuildable

This solution describes our method for a class of problem. It is not a record of a completed client engagement, and the figures above are scope estimates rather than measured results.

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