Send the JSON. Get the judgment.
CloudCost.se turns cloud and platform evidence exports into senior infrastructure analysis: what is running, what is expensive, what is risky, and what is more complex than the business needs. Azure, AWS and GCP are the cloud providers; Kubernetes is treated as an orchestration layer that often adds cost and operational complexity.
Not another dashboard.
Dashboards show more data. They rarely explain what leadership should do next. CloudCost.se is built around evidence, expert interpretation, and practical recommendations.
The collection layer stays simple. The value is in the judgment: cost control, resilience, security posture, governance, and whether the architecture matches the business reality.
Thin collection layer
Use native cloud exports, CLI output, JSON inventories, cost data, and diagrams. No invasive deployment required.
AI-assisted analysis
Large evidence packs are summarized, compared, challenged, and turned into structured findings quickly.
Human expert judgment
Senior review separates noise from business risk, validates recommendations, and makes the output credible.
What we look for.
Cloud waste is rarely just idle resources. The bigger issue is unmanaged complexity: too many services, unclear ownership, weak recovery, and spend that nobody can explain.
Cost waste
Oversized compute, unused resources, always-on lab systems, duplicate services, forgotten disks, inefficient SKUs, and missing budget controls.
Architecture complexity
Kubernetes where App Service would do, multiple routing layers, excessive managed services, and patterns that cost more than the workload justifies.
Risk and resilience
Public exposure, weak monitoring, missing backups, single points of failure, unclear restore procedures, and auditability gaps.
Kubernetes is not the cloud provider. It is often the complexity layer.
CloudCost.se treats Kubernetes as something to inspect inside the cloud estate, not as a peer to Azure, AWS or GCP. Sometimes it is exactly the right platform. Sometimes it is an expensive abstraction that the business never consciously chose to operate.
“What looked elegant in architectural diagrams became a real-world tax on operations teams.”
Source: David Linthicum, “Enterprises are rethinking Kubernetes”, InfoWorld, April 21, 2026.
That is the audit question: not whether Kubernetes is powerful, but whether the organization has a workload, team, operating model and budget that justify carrying the Kubernetes tax.
The audit process.
Fast enough for a pilot. Structured enough for leadership. Practical enough for engineering teams to act on.
Export the evidence
Run approved read-only commands or provide existing exports: resource inventory, network, compute, IAM, cost, Kubernetes, and diagrams where available.
AI-assisted review
The evidence pack is analyzed for spend patterns, complexity signals, exposure, resilience gaps, and governance issues.
Senior judgment layer
Findings are challenged and prioritized by a human infrastructure reviewer before anything reaches leadership.
Executive readout
You receive a plain-English report covering cost, risk, complexity, and a practical action roadmap.
Cost, complexity, risk and operational readiness.
Where spend is avoidable, where costs may grow, and which controls reduce financial leakage.
Which architecture choices are justified, which are excessive, and what should be simplified.
What risks affect resilience, recoverability, governance, and confidence in the operating model.
What you get.
Clear outputs for both leadership and technical teams.
Executive pack
Technical pack
Simple audit packages.
Start with a focused evidence review. Expand only if the findings justify deeper work.
Evidence Review
For one subscription, account, project, or cluster.
- JSON evidence review
- Top cost and risk findings
- Short written summary
- 30-minute walkthrough
Executive Audit
For leadership teams that need decisions, not dashboards.
- Executive-ready PDF report
- CFO / CTO / board framing
- Cost, risk and complexity roadmap
- 60-minute readout call
Remediation Support
For teams that want help turning findings into action.
- Prioritized remediation plan
- Architecture simplification
- Governance and tagging model
- Follow-up evidence review
Ready to understand what your cloud is really doing?
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