Is Your Cloud Bill Higher Than It Should Be?
Cloud costs can grow quietly as infrastructure expands, workloads change, and resources accumulate. If you’re not sure what’s driving your monthly spend or where you could reduce it, a focused cost audit can give you the clarity you need before making changes.
Our Cloud Cost Optimization Audit reviews your existing cloud environment to uncover potential inefficiencies, identify the areas worth investigating, and help you understand where meaningful savings may be available. You’ll get an expert assessment based on your actual cloud usage—not a generic list of cost-cutting tips.
Find Out Where Your Cloud Spend Can Be Reduced
Already running on the cloud but concerned about rising or unpredictable costs? This focused assessment reviews your existing cloud environment to identify unnecessary spend, prioritize optimization opportunities, and estimate how much you could potentially save each month.
Cost-saving report
No long-term commitment
90-Minute Cloud Cost Audit
Review your cloud spending with our team using read-only access. We examine compute, databases, storage, networking, and resource utilization.
Cloud Spend Analysis
Identify the services, resources, and configurations responsible for your biggest areas of cloud spend and potential inefficiency.
Cost-Saving Report
Receive a practical PDF with your top 5 areas of overspending, actionable recommendations, and estimated potential monthly savings.
Implementation Quote
Want us to handle the optimization? Get a separate implementation quote based on the recommendations identified during the audit.
Built for Teams That Want More Control Over Cloud Spend
Whether you're scaling your infrastructure, managing a growing cloud environment, or starting to build cost awareness, this audit gives your team a practical place to begin.
Startups Scaling on the Cloud
Your infrastructure is growing alongside your product, but you don't have a dedicated FinOps or cloud cost team reviewing spend regularly.
Small & Mid-Sized Businesses
You're running important workloads in the cloud and want expert guidance on where costs can be reduced without disrupting operations.
Engineering-Led Companies
Your developers and DevOps teams manage the infrastructure, but cloud cost optimization isn't something they have time to investigate.
Teams Preparing for Growth
You're expecting usage or infrastructure to increase and want to identify potential cost issues before your cloud bill grows with them.
Businesses Managing Multiple Cloud Services
Your environment spans compute, databases, storage, networking, and other services, making optimization opportunities harder to spot.
Companies Starting Their FinOps Journey
You want greater cost awareness across engineering and business teams but need a practical assessment to establish where to begin.
From Cloud Cost Review to Clear Next Steps
A straightforward process designed to identify cost-saving opportunities without disrupting your existing cloud environment.
Book Your Audit
Pick a time that works for your team and provide a few details about your cloud setup.
Grant Read-Only Access
Provide the access needed to review your cloud usage, resources, and spending.
90-Minute Audit
Review your cloud costs with our team and investigate the areas with the greatest savings potential.
Get Your Report
Receive a practical PDF with key findings, recommendations, and estimated monthly savings.
Choose Your Next Step
Take the recommendations to your team or ask us to provide an implementation quote.
Frequently Asked Questions
Detailed answers to the questions we receive most often before a team books a Cloud & DevOps Strategy Roadmap engagement.
How much does the Strategy Roadmap cost, and are there hidden commitments?
It is a fixed-price US$950 engagement with zero long-term lock-in. You receive a complete technical assessment and roadmap for a single, transparent fee. Once delivered, you are free to execute the roadmap internally, hire another vendor, or partner with our Specialist Pods to build it out.
How is this different from hiring a full-time Cloud Architect or consultant?
Speed, zero overhead, and fixed cost. Sourcing a senior in-house architect takes 3–6 months and costs $150k+/year. This engagement gives you immediate, senior-level architectural clarity in under two weeks for a small fixed fee—allowing you to validate priorities before committing to massive hiring or infrastructure budgets.
How much time will my engineering team spend preparing for this?
Less than 1 hour. We intentionally keep preparation effort near zero so your engineers stay focused on shipping product. A brief architecture diagram, access to key repositories/pipelines, and a quick 15-minute context chat are usually all we need before the workshop.
Do we have to give you access to our live production environments?
No production or write access is required. We can complete a thorough strategic assessment using architecture diagrams, repository code, CI/CD pipeline scripts, and collaborative walkthroughs. If temporary read-only cloud access is beneficial, we will evaluate that together under strict NDA and compliance protocols.
Who needs to attend the 2-hour Discovery Workshop?
Just your primary technical decision-makers. Typically, this includes your CTO/VP of Engineering, a lead DevOps/Platform engineer, or the core founder. Keeping the session small and focused allows us to isolate root bottlenecks quickly without drowning in committee noise.
What exactly will we receive in the final Strategy Roadmap report?
A crisp, 5–8 page actionable technical blueprint—zero corporate fluff. Prepared directly by a senior cloud and DevOps engineer, it details:
- Current-State Assessment: Critical bottlenecks in your setup.
- Risk Analysis: Security gaps, single points of failure, and active cloud cost leaks (FinOps).
- Prioritized Action Plan: Step-by-step remediation plan organized by immediate (Week 1–2), mid-term, and long-term milestones.
- Leadership Summary: High-level overview ready for board or budgeting discussions.
Which cloud providers and tech stacks do you support?
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Digital Ocean and Hybrid environments. Our engineering team specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform (Infrastructure as Code), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana), and FinOps cost optimization. We adapt to your existing stack rather than forcing proprietary frameworks.
Is this a formal security penetration test or compliance audit?
No. This is a strategic architecture and delivery assessment. While we highlight glaring security risks, IAM misconfigurations, and reliability gaps, it is not a formal penetration test, SOC 2, or ISO compliance audit. Many clients use our roadmap to fix infrastructure flaws before undergoing formal compliance audits.
How long does the engagement take from start to finish?
7 to 10 business days total.
- Week 1: Kickoff & 2-Hour Discovery Workshop.
- Week 2: Deep-dive technical review, roadmap drafting, and final walkthrough call.
Can this help us decide whether to migrate, rebuild, or stay put?
Yes—this is one of the most common reasons teams hire us. We help you objectively evaluate whether you should migrate cloud providers, adopt Kubernetes, refactor pipelines, or simply optimize and clean up your existing architecture to save money.
What happens after we receive the final roadmap?
You have complete ownership of the roadmap. We host a final review call to walk through every recommendation with your team. You can choose to execute the plan in-house, bring in another team, or engage CDOps Specialists to handle the heavy engineering lift for you.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Book a call with our cloud and DevOps team.
We’ll discuss your current setup, challenges, and goals, and help you determine the right next step.
