🛠️ DevOps & SRE · Sankey
Monthly Cloud Cost Breakdown
Where a company's monthly cloud bill goes, by team and by service type, to spot the biggest savings opportunities.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Compute is the largest share of the bill
- Idle non-production environments are a clear saving
- Data transfer is often missed in estimates
Prompt used
Sankey of a monthly cloud bill of $100,000: $45,000 compute, $20,000 databases, $15,000 storage, $10,000 data transfer, $10,000 other. Compute splits into production $28,000, staging $9,000 and idle dev environments $8,000. Databases split into production $15,000 and non-production $5,000.
Mermaid code
sankey-beta Cloud bill,Compute,45000 Cloud bill,Databases,20000 Cloud bill,Storage,15000 Cloud bill,Data transfer,10000 Cloud bill,Other services,10000 Compute,Production compute,28000 Compute,Staging compute,9000 Compute,Idle dev environments,8000 Databases,Production databases,15000 Databases,Non-production databases,5000 Storage,Backups,9000 Storage,Application data,6000
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