Weekly Change Tracking

Catch Cost Creep
Before It Gets Expensive

Cloud costs don't spike overnight - they creep up gradually through small changes. Track every resource change and see your cost trajectory.

+15-25%
Annual Cost Creep
Weekly
Automated Reports

"How Did We Get to $42K/Month?"

"Two years ago, our AWS bill was $18K/month. Last month it hit $42,000. Nobody could explain why."

"It wasn't one big change. It was a thousand small ones:"

  • • Dev team spun up 8 new staging environments (never shut them down)
  • • Upgraded database tier 'temporarily' for load test (forgot to downgrade)
  • • Added Premium support ($3K/month) for one project (kept it forever)
  • • Each team created their own S3 buckets (200+ buckets, most empty)
  • • Test environments running 24/7 with production-sized instances

"If we'd been tracking changes weekly, we would have caught this at $22K/month. Instead we bled $20,000/month for 18 months - $360,000 total waste."

— VP Engineering, 500-employee Tech Company

Cost creep is silent. Each change is small enough to ignore. But over months, it compounds.

Weekly change tracking catches the creep early - when it's still reversible.

How Weekly Change Tracking Works

Automated infrastructure monitoring that catches changes before they become expensive

1

Snapshot Your Infrastructure

We take a complete snapshot of your cloud every week:

  • All resources: VMs, databases, storage, networks
  • Configurations: SKUs, tiers, regions, tags
  • Cost estimates: Projected monthly cost for each resource
  • Metadata: Who created it, when, why
# This week's snapshot
Resources: 847 total
Monthly cost: $38,420
+12 new resources
-3 deleted
~18 configurations changed
Cost delta: +$2,140/mo
(+5.9% vs last week)
2

Compare Week-Over-Week

New Resources Added This Week

prod-db-replica-west
Azure SQL Database | Standard S3 | West US 2
+$146/mo
Created by: @john
staging-env-teamB
6x VMs (Standard_D4s_v3) | East US
+$1,248/mo
Created by: @sarah

Configuration Changes

dev-sql-main
+$355/mo
Tier upgraded: Basic ($5/mo) → Standard S3 ($360/mo)
Changed by: @mike | Reason: "temp load test"

Resources Deleted

old-test-environment
3x VMs | Storage account
-$420/mo saved
3

Get Weekly Summary Report

Every Monday morning, receive a detailed change report:

Cost Trajectory
Where you're headed if changes continue
High-Impact Changes
Changes that added $500+ monthly cost
Optimization Opportunities
Resources that can be rightsized or deleted
Team Attribution
Who made changes and their cost impact

This Week's Summary

Total Monthly Cost
$38,420
+$2,140 vs last week (+5.9%)
12-Week Trajectory
$47,900/mo
If current trend continues
Quick Wins Available
$1,850/mo
5 resources to downgrade/delete

Every Change is Tracked

Compute

  • • New VMs created
  • • VM size changes
  • • Kubernetes scale-ups
  • • Serverless function additions

Databases

  • • New databases provisioned
  • • Tier upgrades/downgrades
  • • Storage increases
  • • Backup policy changes

Storage

  • • New storage accounts
  • • Storage tier changes
  • • Disk size increases
  • • Snapshot policies

Networking

  • • New load balancers
  • • Public IP allocations
  • • VPN gateways added
  • • Bandwidth usage patterns

Security

  • • Firewall rule changes
  • • Security tier upgrades
  • • WAF configurations
  • • Certificate renewals

Services

  • • New service activations
  • • Support plan changes
  • • Reserved instances
  • • Third-party integrations

How Change Tracking Saves Money

Real examples of cost creep caught early

$18K/year
FinTech Startup
Caught: Dev team creating new staging environments weekly
Impact: 12 environments running 24/7 unnecessarily
Stopped the creep at week 8
$34K/year
E-commerce Platform
Caught: Database tier upgraded for Black Friday, never downgraded
Impact: Running Premium tier for 9 months post-event
Downgraded after week 2 alert
$52K/year
SaaS Company
Caught: Each team creating own monitoring/logging infrastructure
Impact: 5 duplicate monitoring stacks running in parallel
Consolidated to shared infrastructure

Track Changes Across All Clouds

Azure

  • • Resource Graph queries
  • • Activity Log tracking
  • • Cost Management API
  • • Tag-based attribution

AWS

  • • CloudTrail event history
  • • Config change tracking
  • • Cost Explorer API
  • • Resource tagging

Google Cloud

  • • Cloud Asset Inventory
  • • Audit Logs analysis
  • • Billing Export data
  • • Label-based grouping

Related Features

Cost Spike Detection

Real-time alerts for sudden cost increases - perfect complement to weekly tracking.

Database Optimization

Catch database tier upgrades that were "temporary" but never reverted.

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