Cloud Cost Auditv1.0.0

A startup with a monthly cloud spend of $10K uses AWS for compute-heavy applications. The skill analyzes idle EC2 instances, over-provisioned RDS databases, and lack of reserved instances, identifying 40% waste and recommending quick wins like rightsizing and implementing lifecycle policies for storage.

An e-commerce company on Azure experiences high traffic spikes, leading to over-provisioned VMs and inefficient CDN usage. The skill audits cross-AZ data transfer and storage tiering, suggesting spot instances for batch processing and optimizing log ingestion to reduce observability costs by 30%.

A healthcare organization using GCP stores sensitive patient data with strict retention policies. The skill identifies over-provisioned Cloud SQL instances, unnecessary KMS keys for non-sensitive data, and duplicate security tools, prioritizing fixes to align with HIPAA compliance while cutting licensing waste by 25%.

A fintech company leverages GPU instances on AWS for fraud detection models but runs them 24/7. The skill detects GPU idle time, model storage bloat, and lack of caching for API calls, recommending spot instances for training and optimizing inference workloads to save 50% on AI/ML costs.

A manufacturing firm uses Azure for IoT data processing and storage, facing high networking costs from cross-region replication. The skill analyzes snapshot sprawl, over-provisioned containers, and no tagging strategy, suggesting VPC endpoints and lifecycle policies to reduce waste by 35%.

Companies with recurring revenue from software subscriptions often have steady-state compute needs. The skill helps optimize reserved instances and container density to lower operational costs, improving profit margins by reducing cloud waste by 20-30%.

Businesses earning per transaction, like e-commerce or payment processors, experience variable workloads. The skill identifies opportunities for spot instances during off-peak times and CDN optimization to handle spikes efficiently, cutting network and compute costs by 25-40%.

Firms in consulting or construction with project-driven workloads use cloud resources temporarily. The skill detects zombie resources and dev/staging environments mirroring production, recommending tagging for accountability and snapshot cleanup to avoid 15-20% waste.