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A conservative baseline
Industry surveys (Flexera, FinOps Foundation) consistently put cloud waste at 25–45% of spend. We start from ~32%.
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How much of your cloud bill is pure waste?
Industry studies keep landing in the same band: 25–45% of cloud spend buys nothing — over-provisioned capacity, idle environments, orphaned resources. Five inputs, sixty seconds, a number you can take to your CFO.
Estimated waste in your bill
$3,800 /month
likely $3,100 – $4,500 · ≈38% of spend · $45,600/year
Where it typically hides
- Over-provisioned nodes & podsWithout autoscaling, clusters are sized for peak 24/7. Requests set “to be safe” multiply that across every workload.
- 2 non-production environments running 24/7Dev, staging and preview environments typically idle nights and weekends — that is ~70% of the week paid for and unused.
- Drift & orphaned click-ops resourcesWithout IaC/GitOps, resources created by hand outlive their purpose because nobody is sure what is safe to delete.
Honest caveat: this is an estimate built from published industry waste bands — not a measurement. Your actual number needs a real audit of your accounts and clusters.
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How this estimate works
Simple math, real-world inputs.
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Adjusted for your setup
Kubernetes without right-sizing adds waste; every always-on non-prod environment adds more. Working autoscaling and IaC/GitOps subtract — they are the fixes.
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Shown as a range
We show a band, not a fake-precise figure. A single decimal point would be marketing, not engineering.
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Verified by a real audit
The free audit measures your actual utilisation, environments and orphans — and returns a prioritized fix list with the real dollar figure.
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