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Cloud Cost Waste Worksheet

Find idle spend before the next invoice lands

A FinOps worksheet for growing businesses — orphaned resources, oversized VMs, storage tiers, and reserved capacity gaps.

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Compute & storage

  • List VMs or instances with <5% CPU average over 30 days
  • Identify unattached disks and old snapshots without retention policy
  • Check storage tier — hot vs cool vs archive for backups and logs
  • Review autoscaling rules that never scale down
  • Map dev/test environments still running 24/7

Licences & networking

  • Compare M365 licence SKUs to actual feature usage
  • Find unused public IPs, load balancers, and NAT gateways
  • Review data egress charges — CDN or regional placement fixes
  • Check reserved instances or savings plans coverage percentage
  • Document top five monthly line items and owner for each

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