Benchmarks
How does your cloud cost maturity compare?
Benchmarks help you understand whether your AWS or Azure environment is controlled, improving or likely to contain avoidable waste.
Benchmark areas
Spend visibility
Can you see cost by product, team, customer or environment?
Tagging quality
Are resources tagged consistently and enforced?
Budget control
Are budgets, alerts and thresholds in use?
Compute efficiency
Are workloads regularly right-sized?
Storage management
Are lifecycle policies and backups reviewed?
Commitment usage
Are Savings Plans, RIs or Azure Reservations reviewed?
Engineering accountability
Do teams understand the cost impact of decisions?
Review cadence
Is cost reviewed monthly, quarterly or only after bill shock?
Maturity levels
Level 1: Reactive
Reviewed only when the bill becomes a problem.
Level 2: Visible
Basic reporting exists, but ownership is inconsistent.
Level 3: Controlled
Budgets, tagging, reviews and optimisation happen regularly.
Level 4: Optimised
Cost is part of engineering, architecture and product planning.