Cloud cost review checklist for a CTO
A one-page monthly checklist a CTO can run in under an hour: owners, tags, budgets, the top five bill lines and one action per line.
- Name an owner for cloud spend and put the review on the calendar.
- Check tags. Untagged spend cannot be assigned to a team or product.
- Set a budget alert at your expected monthly spend.
- List the top five bill lines and write one action for each: keep, resize, schedule, delete or commit.
- Record what changed so next month shows whether the bill moved.
If you would rather have the review written for you, the one-time audit does steps 4 and 5 from your billing export.
Try it on your own bill
CloudCostAI reads a billing export (AWS Cost and Usage Report, GCP billing export or Azure usage CSV) and returns findings with fix steps. It needs no access to your cloud account. Run the free report (one a month), or buy the one-time audit for $179: every detector, the migration estimate and a written review (current plans). Pro is $19/month, Team $99/month.
Findings are estimates from billing lines, not utilisation metrics. Check each one against real usage before changing anything.