Cloud Cost and Resource Waste Review
Find idle resources and oversized services.
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Review cloud spending. Paste the cost report by service, a list of resources with size, utilisation and owner, and the environments: [COST_DATA]. Business growth plans: [GROWTH_PLANS]. Constraints on downtime: [DOWNTIME_LIMITS]. Identify idle or oversized resources, unattached storage, old snapshots, always-on non-production environments, data transfer costs and missing tags. Suggest changes with expected savings from my numbers and the risk of each. Return a table with Resource, Utilisation, Monthly cost, Action and Risk (red, amber, green), a tagging policy, and a monthly review routine. Pricing changes, so confirm figures with the provider [VERIFY]. Also suggest budgets and alerts by team, a monthly review meeting with owners of the largest costs, and a policy for shutting down non-production environments out of hours. Add a rule that any change to reduce cost must be tested for effects on reliability. Finish with a table of the five largest savings opportunities ranked by size and risk, so that the team can decide in one meeting. Then build a cost governance process that continues after the clean-up. Define tags that every resource must carry, a weekly report of untagged and idle resources, and an owner for each environment. Propose budgets and alerts at team level with thresholds that trigger a conversation, not blame. Create a decision guide for rightsizing that weighs savings against risk and requires a test in a lower environment. Suggest commitment-based discount options as questions to evaluate, with the information needed to decide, without recommending a purchase. Add a schedule for shutting down non-production resources out of hours, with a way for engineers to override. Provide a template for a monthly cost review meeting of thirty minutes, including the top five movements, the actions agreed and the savings realised. Pricing and terms change, so confirm all figures with the provider [VERIFY]. Add a closing line to record the baseline monthly cost today, so that the effect of the changes can be measured honestly after the first full billing cycle.
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