Find candidates to rightsize — after confirming dependencies.
Usage patterns and commitment assumptions
Test whether reservations match how the business actually runs.
Cost visibility by unit or service
Give decision-makers a view they can act on.
What keeps the service dependable
Critical services and dependencies
Know what fails when a component fails.
Actionable monitoring
Prefer alerts that drive a response over noise.
Recovery readiness
Document and test how you restore service.
Change ownership and escalation
Name who may change production and who is called when it fails.
How cost changes are evaluated against reliability
Candidate change — What would be adjusted.
Expected benefit — Cost or reliability effect you hope to see.
Operational risk — What could break for the business.
Validation and rollback — How you confirm safety and reverse if needed.
Decision owner — Who approves the change.
Deliverables and the decisions they support
Cost and ownership picture
Connects spend to services and accountable owners.
Prioritised savings and reliability actions
Orders what to change first without promising unsupported percentage cuts.
Monitoring and alert hygiene plan
Reduces noise and clarifies who acts on what.
Operating notes for your team or ours
Supports continuity after the engagement.
Illustrative example
Illustrative cost and reliability review
Reviewing an underused non-production resource — confirming dependencies and scheduling requirements before changing it.
Candidate — underused non-production resource
Dependencies — confirm what still relies on it
Schedule — when it is needed for testing or release
Decision — rightsize, schedule, or leave unchanged
Rollback — how to reverse if the change causes harm
Illustrative review — an assessment is not permission to change production.
Illustrative: a monthly cloud review that shows idle capacity, who owns each major service, and which alerts still need a human response. An assessment is not permission to change production.
Possible success measures
Spend with an assigned owner
Agreed unit-cost measures where data exists
Actionable alerts
Recurring incidents and tested recovery readiness
Working together
Your involvement
Billing and platform access, a decision owner for change priorities, and agreement on what cannot be turned off.
Scope boundaries
Savings depend on what can change without breaking the business. We will not promise a percentage cut without reviewing your systems, and we will not treat an assessment as permission to change production.
