Establish a baseline
- Select a representative time period and note seasonal demand.
- Record credits, tax, support fees and costs excluded from comparisons.
- Separate accounts, teams, products and shared platform costs.
Explain consumption
- Find the services, regions and usage types driving the largest changes.
- Check idle resources, resource schedules and storage retention.
- Review data transfer paths and logs before changing the architecture.
Assess actions
- Validate rightsizing recommendations with utilisation and performance data.
- Estimate implementation effort and operational risk for each change.
- Assess commitments against stable usage, term and future demand.
Measure & maintain
- Agree an owner and approval route for each optimisation.
- Compare the result with the baseline, accounting for demand changes.
- Review budget alerts and anomalies as part of a recurring routine.
Bring this to your next discussion
Share the key spending questions and a representative billing period. Avoid sending credentials or access keys by email.
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