Cloud Cost Review: Find Out Where Your Cloud Bill Goes
A fixed-price, read-only review of your cloud bill for small teams on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or DigitalOcean-style hosts. You get an itemized map of what you pay for, what looks oversized or unused, and what changing each item would involve. From $390 ($300 founding), about one week. Email your provider and monthly spend.
See a sample report, proposal and weekly update- Price
- from $390
- Founding
- from $300
- Timeline
- ~1 week
- Format
- Fixed scope, fixed price
- Hours
- US Eastern Time, async
Who this is for.
A good fit if
- Founders whose cloud bill keeps growing but whose traffic hasn’t
- Small teams who inherited an account nobody fully understands
- Agencies hosting several client apps in one account
Common triggers
- A bill jump after a launch, test or forgotten experiment
- A developer left and nobody knows what half the resources are
- You’re wondering whether a simple VPS setup would cost less
Not a fit if
- You want a guaranteed saving or a percentage promise
- Your monthly spend is over $20,000 or spread across many business units
- You need someone to negotiate contracts or reserved pricing with the provider
What I do, and what you get.
What I do
- Read the last 3 months of billing data with a read-only role you create
- Group every line of spend by service, project and environment
- Check for idle or oversized servers, unattached disks, old snapshots, forgotten load balancers and IPs, data-transfer costs and logs kept forever
- Estimate what each item costs per month, from the provider’s own prices
- Describe what changing each item would take, how risky it is and who could do it
- Answer follow-up questions by email for 7 days after the report
What you get
- Spend map: where every dollar went, by service and environment
- Findings list ranked by monthly cost, each with the effort and risk of changing it
- A short “quick wins you can do yourself” checklist
- If relevant, a rough comparison with a simpler setup, clearly marked as an estimate
- A fixed quote for any changes you want me to make
- Handover notes
Your part
- Create a read-only billing and resource role (I send exact steps)
- Tell me which environments and resources matter to the business
- Decide which changes to make; I never change or delete anything in this service
Included
- One cloud account (Starter) or several, up to $20k/month (Standard)
- 3 months of billing data
- Written report and fixed quote
- 7 days of email follow-up
- The full fee credited toward a follow-on project of $1,000 or more approved within 30 days
Not included
- Any change to your account
- Savings guarantees or percentages
- Contract or pricing negotiation with the provider
- Tax or accounting advice
- Security review (see Security Audit)
Fixed prices, agreed before work starts.
One account, spend up to $5k/month
Up to $20k/month or several accounts
Build your scope
- Timeline
- ~1 week
- Payment
- Paid in full before work starts
- Earliest start
- Oct 5
The fee is credited in full toward a follow-on project of $1,000+ approved within 30 days.
Not a commitment. I confirm the exact price in a written proposal.Founding price: 3 of 7 spots left, until Mar 31, 2027 — one-off work, in return for a testimonial. How it works
Prices are in USD, paid by bank transfer against an invoice. Work under $1,000 is paid upfront; larger work is 50% to start and 50% before handover, or monthly milestones. The full fee of this service is credited toward a follow-on project of $1,000 or more that you approve within 30 days.How working together works
Variations
- AWS
- Cost Explorer and resource inventory through a read-only role.
- Google Cloud
- Billing reports or BigQuery billing export via a Billing Viewer role.
- Azure
- Cost Management reader access.
- VPS hosts (DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Hetzner)
- Invoice and droplet/server list; usually a sizing and backup review.
How it runs.
- 01
Send your provider
Email your provider or providers and rough monthly spend.
- 02
Invoice and access
You pay the invoice and I send the steps to create a read-only role.
- 03
Review and report
I review the bill and resources and write the report.
- 04
Questions by email
You read the report and ask questions by email for 7 days.
- 05
Fixed quote
If you want changes made, you get a fixed quote.
A new service, done openly.
I have not delivered this exact service for a client before, so there is no case study to point to yet. The approach above is built from parts I have shipped in production — see the case studies — and the fixed price and written scope protect you while it is new.
Questions buyers ask.
How much will I save?
I don’t promise a number. The report estimates each item’s monthly cost from the provider’s own prices; what you actually save depends on which changes you make.
Do you need admin access?
No. Read-only billing and resource access only. I can’t change anything.
Will you tell me to leave AWS?
Only if the numbers and your setup support it, and the report explains the trade-offs. Often the answer is to fix sizing where you are.
Can you make the changes?
Yes, quoted separately after the report. The full fee is credited toward a follow-on project of $1,000 or more approved within 30 days.
Is my billing data safe?
It stays in your account. I read it through the role you create, and you can remove the role when I’m done.
Have you done this before?
This is a new service, so there’s no past cost-review case study yet. I have built software that provisions and manages servers on five clouds, so I know how those bills are built.
Ask about Cloud Cost Review.
Tell me what you have and where it hurts. I reply within one US business day with either a fixed quote or the entry step that makes a fixed quote possible.
Helpful to include
- Provider(s)
- Rough monthly spend and how it changed
- Number of accounts or projects
- What runs there (apps, databases, storage)
- Anything you already suspect
- Deadline or trigger
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