Infographic 10 · ZANISS SOFTWARES
Most cloud bills are 30–50% larger than they need to be — not because the team is careless, but because nobody owns cost. This infographic is the 4-step audit playbook we use to cut spend without paging anyone, with real client savings numbers from AWS, GCP, and Azure environments.
(1) Tag everything by team/service/environment. (2) Find the top 10 line items — they're usually 80% of the bill. (3) Right-size compute and switch to savings plans / committed use. (4) Kill zombie resources (idle load balancers, orphaned EBS volumes, unused snapshots). Most clients see 25–40% savings inside 30 days.
Right-sizing is safe when driven by 14-day p95 utilisation, not averages. The infographic shows the exact CloudWatch / Cloud Monitoring queries to use and the 'safe drop' rules per workload type (stateless web, DB, batch, ML).
Budgets with alerts, IaC policies that block oversized instances by default, weekly cost reviews in engineering standups, and a per-team chargeback dashboard. Without these, savings drift back within 90 days. The deep-dive — cutting cloud bills without breaking production — has the IaC policy snippets.
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