Cloud cost audits · GCP & AWS

You're paying for a cluster. You're using two-thirds of it.

I find the gap between what your cloud bill charges you for and what your workloads actually consume and then remove it. The audit costs nothing. The fixes are paid from what you save.

Read-only access · Written findings in 3 days · Fee is 25% of what you save

Billed capacity vs. actual consumption
100% 50% 0 55% compute 60% storage 65% network The band above each bar is spend with nothing running on it.
Actually consumed Paid for, unused
25–40%

The range most unmanaged Kubernetes environments turn out to be over-provisioned by.

₹0

What the audit costs. You get a written number whether or not you hire me afterwards.

1

Senior engineer on your account. The person who finds it is the person who fixes it.

The engagement

Three stages. You can stop after the first.

Nothing here asks you to commit before you've seen a number specific to your own environment.

Free

The audit

You grant a read-only IAM role. I work through billing exports, cluster utilisation, storage, networking and commitment coverage, then send a written document: what's recoverable, how much, and what each fix involves. Nothing in your environment changes.

Paid

The remediation

If the number is worth acting on, I implement the fixes. My fee is 25% of the first year of verified savings, measured against a baseline we agree before I start. No production change without your written approval, and every change ships with a rollback.

Optional

Keeping it there

Cloud spend drifts back. A light monthly retainer covers guardrails, alerting on regressions, and a monthly review — so the savings hold instead of decaying over two quarters.

25%of verified savings

That's the whole fee. Twenty-five percent of what your bill actually drops by over the first twelve months after the fixes land, invoiced monthly as the savings show up on real invoices.

No retainer to start, no fee for the audit, nothing owed if I don't find anything worth acting on. If your spend is large, the percentage comes down — that's a conversation worth having once we both know the number.

Worked example
Current annual cloud spend₹30,00,000
Recovered after remediation (30%)₹9,00,000
My fee — 25% of first-year savings₹2,25,000
You keep, year one₹6,75,000

And every year after that, you keep all of it. The fee stops at twelve months; the lower run-rate doesn't.

Fit

Six signs there's money sitting in your bill

Any two of these and an audit will almost certainly pay for itself several times over.

01

Nobody owns the bill

Finance sees the total, engineering sees the dashboards, and no single person is accountable for the gap between them.

02

Requests were set once, never revisited

CPU and memory requests were guessed during the first deploy and have been quietly padding every node ever since.

03

Your credits are running out

Activate or Google for Startups credits expire in the next two quarters and nobody knows what the real invoice will look like.

04

You're hiring for platform or SRE

The pain is real enough that you've opened a role — but that role won't be filled and ramped for another four months.

05

Everything runs on-demand

No committed use discounts, no savings plans, no spot for anything — because committing felt risky and nobody modelled it.

06

The bill grew faster than the traffic

Spend is up 60% year on year and usage is up 20%. That difference is exactly what I go looking for.

Rough floor: below about ₹10 lakh a year in cloud spend there usually isn't enough to recover to justify either of our time. Above that, it's worth three hours to find out.

What I look for

Where the money usually is

The same handful of things account for most of the waste in most environments. None of them are exotic — they're just nobody's job.

Findings register — typical GKE environmentStatus
01Idle and over-scaled node pools running through nights and weekendsRecoverable
02Unattached disks, orphaned load balancers, snapshots from migrations long finishedRecoverable
03CPU and memory requests far above observed usage, inflating every node countRecoverable
04On-demand pricing on steady baseline workloads where commitments applyRecoverable
05Log and metric retention defaults nobody has ever changedRecoverable
06Cross-zone and egress traffic caused by placement, not by product needRecoverable
Commonly recovered, annualised25–40%

Illustrative, not a promise. Your number comes from your own billing data during the audit — and if it turns out to be small, I'll tell you that and we stop there. A short honest answer is worth more to both of us than a long engagement built on a bad premise.

Who you'd work with
Principal
Abhishek Sharma
  • Platform engineer, production GKE
  • Terraform · GitLab CI · ArgoCD
  • Helm · Istio · Kubernetes
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Based in India · works globally

Sadupyog is one engineer, and that's the point.

Not an agency. No bench, no junior consultant doing the work while someone senior signs the report. Hire a firm and you get a team. Hire me and you get the person who actually knows where the waste hides.

My day job is running production Kubernetes for a smart metering platform serving utilities — Terraform, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Helm, Istio, at scale and under real reliability constraints. Everything on this page is something I've had to find and fix in an environment I was responsible for.

That means fewer clients than a firm could take. It also means nothing gets escalated, handed off, or explained to someone who then explains it to someone else.

Sadupyog — सदुपयोग — means right use. Not spending less. Using well what you already pay for.

Next step

Find out your number in three days.

Send me your cloud provider and rough monthly spend. I'll tell you within a day whether an audit is worth your time — and I'll say no if it isn't.