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title: "How to reduce cloud and software costs"
description: "Start with an inventory of every cloud account, subscription and licence, with an owner for each. Most savings come from removing what nobody uses, right-sizing what is over-provisioned and consolidating overlapping tools, not from re-architecting. Make each change reversible, check it against performance and security, and set a monthly review so costs do not drift back."
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# How can a growing company reduce its cloud and software costs without slowing the team down?

Start with an inventory of every cloud account, subscription and licence, with an owner for each. Most savings come from removing what nobody uses, right-sizing what is over-provisioned and consolidating overlapping tools, not from re-architecting. Make each change reversible, check it against performance and security, and set a monthly review so costs do not drift back.

## What this means in practice

- List every cloud account, subscription and licence with an owner and a monthly cost.
- Remove unused resources and seats before negotiating or re-architecting.
- Right-size over-provisioned services and test that performance holds.
- Consolidate tools that do the same job, and agree who approves new ones.
- Review costs monthly against a budget so savings stick.

## How Lid Vizion approaches it

We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.

## See it as a workflow

- [A cloud and software cost review](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/cloud-cost-review/): Find out what the company pays for cloud, software and vendors, what each line does, and what can be cut, right-sized or renegotiated without risk.

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