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Infrastructure Cost Report Template

Infrastructure cost breakdown, optimization opportunities, team allocation, and spend forecast.

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Field	Details
Report Period	Month / Quarter
Author	Name
Total Spend	$XX,XXX
vs. Last Period	+X%
vs. Budget	On Budget

Cost Summary

Category	This Period	Last Period	Change	% of Total
Compute (EC2, GKE, containers)	$X,XXX	$X,XXX	+$XXX	XX%
Database (RDS, Cloud SQL)	$X,XXX	$X,XXX		XX%
Storage (S3, GCS, disks)	$XXX	$XXX		XX%
Network (data transfer, CDN, LB)	$XXX	$XXX		XX%
Third-party SaaS	$XXX	$XXX		XX%
Other	$XXX	$XXX		XX%
Total	$XX,XXX	$XX,XXX		100%

Top Cost Drivers

What is costing the most, and is it justified? Highlight anything that grew unexpectedly.

Top cost item — why it costs this much and whether it's expected
Unexpected increase — what changed (traffic growth, new feature, misconfiguration, forgotten resource)

Optimization Opportunities

Opportunity	Estimated Savings	Effort	Risk	Status
Right-size over-provisioned instances	$XXX/month	Low	Low	Not Started
Reserved instances / savings plans	$X,XXX/month	Low	Commitment lock-in	Evaluating
Clean up unused resources	$XXX/month	Low	None	Not Started
Optimize expensive queries / reduce DB load	$XXX/month	Medium	Low	Not Started

Cost by Team / Product

If you tag resources by team or product, break down who is spending what. This drives accountability.

Team / Product	Spend	Change	Notes
Team A	$X,XXX	+XX%
Team B	$X,XXX	-X%
Shared / untagged	$X,XXX		Goal: reduce untagged spend to < 10%

Forecast

Scenario	Next Month	Next Quarter	Assumption
Current trajectory	$XX,XXX	$XX,XXX	No changes to infra or traffic
With optimizations	$XX,XXX	$XX,XXX	All optimization items implemented
Growth scenario	$XX,XXX	$XX,XXX	+XX% traffic growth

Action Items

Action	Owner	Deadline	Savings
Specific cost action	Name	YYYY-MM-DD	$XXX/month
		YYYY-MM-DD

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