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Cloud Cost
Reality Check.

Ten honest questions to find out whether you're in control of your cloud spend — or quietly bleeding money. No signup, no email. Just the truth, a score out of 30, and exactly where to look next.

Covers cost visibility, waste, purchasing, and Kubernetes efficiency (Karpenter, rightsizing). ~2 minutes.

01

Can you attribute cloud spend to a specific team, service, or product?

02

Do you know what it costs to serve one customer, tenant, or unit of work?

03

How consistently are your cloud resources tagged for cost allocation?

04

How would you find out about a sudden cost spike?

05

Can you predict next quarter's cloud spend?

06

How much of your steady-state compute runs on discounted pricing — spot, Graviton/ARM, Savings Plans or RIs?

07

What's the state of idle and over-provisioned resources — instances, volumes, old snapshots?

08

How do your Kubernetes clusters provision and scale nodes?

09

How well are your pod resource requests and limits set?

10

Who owns cloud cost, and when is it considered?