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How much of your cloud bill
is recoverable waste?

Sixty seconds, five inputs, and a defensible range. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing is sent or stored. Share the result by copying the URL.

estimate your recoverable waste

A worked example for a team spending $50K/month on cloud:

recoverable waste (conservative → client avg*)$10K – $22.5K/mo
annualized$120K – $270K/yr
downtime gap vs 99.99% at 99.9% uptime, $25K/hr revenue$197K/yr at risk

Enable JavaScript to plug in your own spend, cloud and uptime. The interactive version runs entirely in your browser; nothing is sent or stored.

*45% is the average across InfraZen FinOps engagements 2021–2025 (case studies); your result depends on how much has already been optimized.

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What to do with the number

The range is a conversation starter, not an invoice. If it's big enough to matter, the next step is replacing the estimate with evidence: a read-only bill audit that maps exactly where the waste sits (commitments, rightsizing, storage tiers, NAT, Kubernetes bin-packing and seven other line items) and ranks the fixes by ROI. Written findings land within 48 hours of access.

If you'd rather understand the discipline before talking to anyone: What is FinOps? explains the operating model, and the Cloud Billing & FinOps engagement page shows how the 90-day optimization actually runs. The methodology and the 45% figure carry the site-wide disclaimer on case studies.

Replace the estimate with evidence.

Free bill audit: read-only access, written gap map within 48 hours, savings quantified from your actual billing data.

last updated: 2026-07-07

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Frequently asked questions

How does the cloud waste calculator work?

It multiplies your monthly spend by a conservative 20% waste floor and by 45%, InfraZen's published client average across FinOps engagements 2021 to 2025, to give a recoverable-waste range. If you enter revenue per hour and current uptime, it also prices your downtime gap versus 99.99% using 8,766 hours per year times unavailability. The method is printed next to the result; estimates are replaced by actual numbers in a free bill audit.

Is my data stored when I use the calculator?

No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type is sent to a server or stored. The only thing that changes is your page URL, which encodes your inputs so you can share or bookmark the result. There is no signup and no email gate.

How accurate is a cloud waste estimate?

It is a calibrated range, not a quote. Industry analyses consistently put identifiable waste at around a third of enterprise cloud spend, and the calculator brackets your number between a deliberately conservative floor and a published client average. Where your stack actually falls depends on how much has already been optimized, which is exactly what a read-only bill audit establishes with your real billing data.