The Board Said Cut 20%. Here's Where to Start.
Finance wants a cloud cost reduction plan by end of quarter. You need real savings—not a dashboard tour, not a 6-month roadmap, not a consultant engagement that takes longer than the deadline. The savings assessment shows you the number in 2–3 days.
Savings Assessment
Your cloud estate · all providers
“Just turn stuff off” won't get you to 20%
When the cost-cutting mandate comes down, the first instinct is rightsizing: find idle resources, delete orphaned snapshots, shut down dev environments on weekends. That playbook yields 3–5%. It's table stakes, not transformation.
The real money is in pricing, not usage. Most enterprise cloud estates run 40–60% of eligible compute at on-demand rates. That's the gap between what you're paying and what you could be paying for the exact same workloads. No migration. No refactoring. No disruption to engineering.
This is the lever that moves the number fast enough to satisfy a board timeline.
Savings by Lever
Addressable annual savings
Three levers that deliver real savings
- •Discount coverage with non-standard instruments. Most organizations run 40–60% of compute at on-demand rates. Managed Discounts closes the gap using custom RIs, volume pricing, and 30-day terms—instruments deeper than what the cloud console offers directly.
- •Usage optimization—low risk, low effort, high return. Rightsizing, scheduling, and eliminating orphaned resources. These aren't the 3–5% table-stakes cleanups. We target the high-value changes that don't require engineering sprints or architectural decisions.
- •Billing consolidation. Aggregate your AWS, Azure, and GCP spend under one billing relationship to unlock volume pricing tiers and simplify procurement. One invoice instead of three.
5–10x ROI in 90 days—or walk away
Cloudsaver doesn't charge for the assessment. We don't charge setup fees. We share in the savings we deliver. If the ROI isn't there in 90 days, you walk away with the analysis and owe nothing.
That's a meaningful difference when you're under board pressure. You're not buying software and hoping it pays off in 12 months. You're getting a partner who is contractually aligned with delivering savings on your timeline, not theirs.
From assessment to savings in days, not months
The savings assessment is a read-only analysis of your cloud billing data. No agents to install, no credentials to share, no engineering involvement. In 2–3 business days, you have a specific dollar amount you can hand to your CFO.
Related reading
Why Cloud Costs Grow Faster Than Usage
Cloud bills don't grow linearly with consumption. The structural reasons — and the four levers that flatten the curve.
How Managed Discounts Delivers 5–10x ROI
The math behind a flat-fee managed discount service vs. percentage-of-savings models. Worked examples at $1M, $5M, and $20M+ spend levels.
Cloud Cost Management for Finance Teams
What finance actually needs from cloud cost data — and why most engineering-built dashboards don't deliver it.
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