A cloud and software cost review

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title: "A cloud and software cost review: AI Use Case"
description: "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."
url: https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/cloud-cost-review/
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[Use cases](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/) · Leadership

# A cloud and software 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.

[Talk through this workflow](https://lidvizion.ai/contact/?need=fractional-cto&from=%2Fuse-cases%2Fcloud-cost-review%2F#write) · [Fractional CTO](https://lidvizion.ai/services/fractional-cto/)

Where it starts

## The trigger.

Technology spend keeps rising and nobody can explain every line on the bill.

How it runs today

- Cloud accounts and subscriptions were set up by people who have since left.
- Unused environments, seats and services keep billing.
- Nobody owns the decision to change a vendor or plan.

The workflow

## Four bounded steps.

Each step has an owner and a stop rule.

1. 01 / Inventory
   List every cloud account, subscription and vendor with its owner and purpose.
2. 02 / Measure
   Match each cost to the product, team or workflow it supports.
3. 03 / Decide
   Mark each line keep, right-size, consolidate or cancel, with the risk noted.
4. 04 / Act
   Make the safe changes first, schedule the rest and assign an owner to the bill.

Where people stay in control

## Approval points.

- Leadership approves every cancellation or vendor change.
- Changes to production systems follow a tested rollback plan.

How we would measure it

## Against a baseline.

Measured before and after, on the same work.

### Monthly technology spend before and after.

### Share of spend with a named owner.

### Services cancelled without an incident.

Related

## Go deeper.

- [Fractional CTO](https://lidvizion.ai/services/fractional-cto/): Senior technical ownership for companies that need direction and execution without immediately adding a full-time CTO.
- [Edge vs. cloud deployment](https://lidvizion.ai/resources/basics/edge-vs-cloud-deployment/): Where a model should run: next to the camera or sensor, or in a data centre.
- [Review your cloud bill in two weeks](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/review-your-cloud-bill-in-two-weeks/): A four-step playbook to find out what your cloud spend pays for, remove obvious waste and give every remaining cost an owner, without a rewrite.
- [How to reduce cloud and software costs](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/how-to-reduce-cloud-and-software-costs/): How can a growing company reduce its cloud and software costs without slowing the team down?

More use cases

## Other places to start.

[All use cases](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/)

- [An AI tool and vendor decision you can defend](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/ai-tool-and-vendor-decision/): Leadership Replace scattered subscriptions and competing vendor pitches with one decision, made on your workflows, data rules and costs.
- [A technology roadmap the board can follow](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/technology-roadmap-for-the-board/): Leadership Turn scattered technical priorities into a sequenced roadmap with owners, costs and risks that non-technical leaders can hold you to.
- [Technical due diligence preparation](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/technical-due-diligence-prep/): Leadership Get the technology, code and security story in order before investors or an acquirer ask, so diligence confirms the plan instead of derailing it.

An illustrative workflow pattern, not a result from a specific customer.

Bring the messy version

## One workflow. A better way to run it.

Show us the tools, the handoffs, and the part that keeps slowing your team down.

[Let’s map your workflow](https://lidvizion.ai/contact/) · [Read our approach](https://lidvizion.ai/approach/)