The Health Check deliverable is a tactical document, not a slide deck. Below is the real shape of one: executive summary, waste map, 30-60-90 plan, and implementation estimates. Read it before you spend a dollar.
Sample client profile: mid-market SaaS company, $84,000/month AWS spend across 14 accounts.
The audit identified $27,400/month in reduction opportunities (33% of current spend). Of that, $9,100/month is implementable inside 30 days with no architectural change and negligible risk. The remainder requires scheduled change windows or commitment purchases. No finding requires a platform migration or service rewrite.
Every finding is scored on monthly impact, implementation effort, and operational risk. The order below is the order we'd implement.
| Finding | Monthly impact | Effort | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| No commitment coverage on steady-state workloads | $8,300 | Low | Low |
| Oversized production compute (average utilization under 20%) | $7,200 | Medium | Low |
| Non-production environments running 24/7 | $6,800 | Low | Low |
| Over-provisioned database instances | $2,400 | Medium | Medium |
| Unattached storage volumes and aged snapshots | $2,100 | Low | Low |
| Idle load balancers, orphaned IPs, legacy NAT gateways | $600 | Low | Low |
| Total identified | $27,400/mo | $328,800 annualized | |
Findings are useless without sequencing. The plan orders the work so the savings fund the discipline.
The deliverable closes with effort and cost estimates for three paths: your internal team executes with the plan, Skyform's specialist bench executes alongside you, or the work becomes a fixed-price follow-on engagement scoped within 5 business days. You pick. A third of Health Check clients take the plan and run with it internally, and that's a win.
This is not a tool export. Cost tools surface line items; they don't know that the oversized cluster is load-bearing for quarter-end, or that the idle environment belongs to an audit requirement. Every finding in a Health Check is reviewed by the Principal Architect who signs the engagement, scored for risk, and sequenced so finance sees recurring savings, not a PDF.
A Health Check is $15K, takes two weeks, and ends with this deliverable plus a 60-minute walkthrough. If your environment is already clean, you'll have the evidence. It usually isn't.