Template guide
Overview
Use this cost optimization review to turn raw infrastructure spend into a prioritized action plan across compute, storage, traffic, and scaling controls.
Who should use this template
- FinOps and platform teams
- Engineering managers
- CTOs focused on margin
What this template covers
Spend baseline
- Hosting, compute, storage
- Database footprint and replication
- Monthly cost profile
Traffic and scaling efficiency
- CDN and bandwidth
- Autoscaling policy quality
- Idle resource detection
Optimization roadmap
- Top cost drivers
- Savings opportunities
- Constraints and sequencing
From responses to AI summary
FormGenyus is built for workflows where raw answers are long. Here is an illustrative example of how a summary differs from raw text (not from a live submission).
Sample raw response
Monthly infra spend $78k; top costs are managed DB and egress; staging clusters often idle nights/weekends…
Cost optimization brief
- Primary cost drivers: database and network egress
- Quick wins: right-size idle non-prod capacity and improve CDN hit rates
- Estimated savings: meaningful within 1–2 quarters if policy changes are enforced
FAQ
- Is this only for AWS?
- No. It is provider-agnostic and works for AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid environments.
- Can AI estimate savings?
- It can surface likely savings ranges from provided inputs; finance and engineering should validate final estimates.