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Specification ADV·103

ADV · Tech Advisory Defined scope Fixed fee

Cloud Bill Sanity Check

An engineer reads one month of your cloud bill and names the five most questionable charges with estimated savings, so waste is cut quickly.

Fee · GST incl.
₹999
Duration
3 working days
Deliverables
6

01 Overview

This is a quick read on whether your cloud spend makes sense for what you run. Export one month of billing data, describe the workload briefly, and an engineer picks out the lines that do not fit: an oversized database, cross-zone data transfer, storage left on a default tier, an environment nobody switched off. It is a skim rather than an audit, so it will not catch everything, but it surfaces the obvious waste and tells you whether a deeper review would be worth paying for.

02 Deliverables

6 items

What you receive at handover

  1. D01 Review of one month of billing data from your cloud provider
  2. D02 The 5 line items that look most questionable, with our reasoning
  3. D03 Estimated monthly saving for each item
  4. D04 A view on whether your spend is typical for a workload of your shape
  5. D05 A note on whether a full cost audit would be worth the money
  6. D06 A written summary delivered by email

03 Outcomes

What should be true once it ships

  • A fast outside view on whether your cloud bill is reasonable
  • Obvious waste identified within days, for a small fixed fee
  • A straight answer on whether deeper cost work would pay for itself

04 Process

How the 4 stages run

  1. Send You export the billing detail and describe the workload in a few lines
  2. Review An engineer reads the bill against the architecture you describe
  3. Rank The questionable lines are ordered by what each is worth per month
  4. Report A written summary of what looks wrong and what to do about it

05 Fit & inputs

A good fit for

  • Founders whose cloud bill has doubled without a clear reason
  • Finance teams with no technical view of infrastructure spend
  • Anyone deciding whether a full cost audit is justified

What we need from you

  • One full month of billing data exported, ideally at resource level
  • A few lines on what you run and roughly how much traffic it serves

These inputs are collected through the technical brief in your dashboard after payment. The duration is counted from when they arrive.

06 Answers

Questions about this engagement

The audit analyses three months against live utilisation and models commitments. This check reads one month by eye and reports the headlines.

We tell you so. That is a legitimate result, and it saves you paying for an audit you do not need.

Yes, as well as DigitalOcean and Hetzner.

This is technology work delivered digitally — nothing is shipped. Work is delivered into systems you control within the duration stated above, and the delivery and refund policies set out what happens if a date is missed.

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