Cloud Optimizationbluebill.io — Kevin Meyer
Where cloud budgets actually leak
Idle infrastructure, forgotten environments and unreviewed commitments quietly absorb up to a third of a typical cloud bill.
Most cloud waste is not dramatic. It is a staging cluster nobody switched off, an oversized database instance chosen during a launch, a snapshot policy that never expires.
The pattern repeats across almost every environment we review:
- Idle and orphaned resources that no team claims ownership of
- Oversized compute picked for a peak that never returned
- Storage tiers left on defaults
- Commitments and reservations that no longer match real usage
The fix is rarely a migration. It is visibility, ownership, and a recurring review rhythm that finance and engineering both trust.