Cloud Cost Savings Calculator
Where the savings typically come from
Illustrative estimate at a conservative 24% benchmark recovery rate — not a quote. The CloudFinOpsKit tool reports figures priced from your own Azure Cost Management / AWS Cost Explorer data.
How the estimate works
Independent FinOps benchmarks consistently find that organizations recover 20–30% of cloud spend once they remove waste systematically. This calculator uses a conservative 24% and splits it across the five sources a real cost review works through, so you can see where the money is — not just a single headline number:
- Idle & orphaned resources (~6%) — unattached disks/EBS volumes, idle IPs, empty gateways. Near-zero-risk deletes.
- Rightsizing (~8%) — over-provisioned VMs/EC2, databases and PaaS moved to the SKU they actually need.
- Commitments & licensing (~7%) — Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and (Azure) Hybrid Benefit applied to the steady-state baseline.
- Storage tiering & lifecycle (~2%) — cool/archive tiers, S3 lifecycle rules, and cleaning up old snapshots.
- Non-prod scheduling (~1%) — shutting down dev/test out of hours.
Your real numbers depend on how optimized you already are — the point of this tool is to size the opportunity and show which lever to pull first. For exact, billed-cost figures, run the assessment; to go deeper on any lever, see the FinOps insights library or the remediation playbook.
FAQ
Is this an exact quote?
No — it's an illustrative estimate based on standard benchmark recovery rates. Actual savings vary with your architecture and how optimized you already are. The tool gives exact figures from your own billing data.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing you type leaves the page.
Related: How to reduce your Azure bill · AWS cost optimization checklist · The remediation playbook