Engineering Cost Intelligence Tools
Cloud Waste Calculator
Enter monthly cloud bill and waste category percentages to compute estimated monthly waste and annual savings opportunity.
No data is transmitted — everything runs locallyTool
About this tool
Cloud Waste Calculator
The Cloud Waste Calculator estimates monthly cloud waste from idle resources, oversized instances, and unattached volumes with annualized savings opportunity.
• Estimate cloud waste before a FinOps initiative
• Calculate savings from a right-sizing exercise
• Quantify idle resource waste for a cloud cost review
• Build ROI for a cloud cost optimization tool investment
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FAQ
What does this tool tell you?
The Cloud Waste Calculator estimates monthly cloud waste from idle resources, oversized instances, and unattached volumes with annualized savings opportunity.
What affects the result most?
Industry average cloud waste: 32% of cloud spend — Flexera State of Cloud report. Idle resources: EC2 instances with <5% CPU utilization — stop or terminate. Oversized instances: running m5.2xlarge at 15% CPU — downsize to t3.large.
How should I use the result?
The calculation is deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same output — so the most useful workflow is to vary one input at a time and see which factor moves the result most. That tells you where to focus your attention before committing to a decision.