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Cloud Bill Right-Size Check

How much of your cloud bill pays for nothing?

Enter your monthly AWS, Azure or Google Cloud spend and how you run it. See where the waste sits, what each fix is worth in a year, and how much to commit before you sign anything.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Commitments
  • Data transfer
  • 4 minutes
Check my bill How MALA helps

Step 1 · Your cloud bill

Describe your bill the way your cloud team would

Start from the example closest to you, then change any number. Rough figures from last month's invoice are fine.

Example

Your spend
Main cloud provider
All accounts and subscriptions, before credits.
$
Virtual machines, containers and serverless.
%
%
Egress and traffic between regions. Often buried in the bill as "data transfer out".
%

How you run it
Production servers and databases that never scale down.
%
%
Last time someone right-sized servers against real usage
Dev and test environments
Old data and snapshots
Private connection to the cloud
Spend tagged to an owner or cost center
How the estimate works
Right-sizing Share of compute that is idle or oversized: 20% if never reviewed, 14% if over a year ago, 8% this year, 4% with continuous review
Dev and test Assumes a quarter of compute is non-production. Turning it off nights and weekends cuts about 64% of its hours (60 of 168 hours a week kept)
Commitments Uncovered steady compute, after right-sizing and scheduling, times a 28% discount, typical of 1-year savings plans and reservations
Storage 30% of storage spend if data is kept forever, 15% if cleaned up by hand, 5% if tiered automatically
Data transfer 30% of transfer spend without a private connection (caching, private connection rates, fewer cross-region hops), 8% with one
Range Low end is 75% of the midpoint, high end is 120%. Benchmark: organizations estimate 29% of cloud spend is wasted (Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud)

Step 2 · Your savings plan

Cut first, then commit

Unlock a 90-day plan in the right order, how much to commit and on what terms, and the questions to put to your provider or reseller before you sign.

90-day savings plan

Which fix to make in each 30-day block, and who owns it.

How much to commit

A commitment sized to your baseline after right-sizing, with the terms to ask for.

Questions for your provider

What to ask your provider or reseller before you renew or commit.

No cost, no obligation. MALA is vendor-sponsored.

Next step

Get an outside read on your cloud bill.

MALA reviews your usage, benchmarks your discounts and prices colocation, private cloud and private connections side by side, so you commit to the right baseline. No consulting fee.

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