CLOUD OVERHEAD CALCULATOR
What is cloud really costing you?
Based on Flexera 2025, CloudZero 2024, IAPP-EY 2025, DLA Piper 2025, EU DevOps salary benchmarks. Sources cited inline.
LIVE CALCULATION
01_SELECT YOUR STAGE
02_TEAM SIZE
HEADCOUNT
12
PEOPLE
150100200+
03_DATA TRANSFER / MONTH
EGRESS GB
500
GB/MO
02.5TB5TB10TB+
AWS egress: $0.09/GB · $0.045/GB NAT surcharge
04_GDPR COMPLIANCE OVERHEAD
Include GDPR cost?
DPO + legal + audits · IAPP-EY 2025
50-person SaaS: €20K–€50K/year · 200-person: €80K–€200K/year
BENCHMARK SOURCES
· Cloud spend: Spendark Benchmark 2026
· Waste 32%: Flexera State of Cloud 2025
· DevOps salary €78,535: EU avg 2024
· GDPR overhead: IAPP-EY 2025
· Egress: AWS pricing 2025
· Breach cost $4.88M: IBM 2024
TOTAL CLOUD OVERHEAD — YOUR ESTIMATE
Cloud infrastructure bill
Benchmark for your stage + team size
€2,500
per month
Cloud waste (32%)
Overprovisioned + idle · Flexera 2025
€800
wasted / month
Egress fees
AWS $0.09/GB + NAT surcharge
€67
per month
DevOps time overhead
~10% of team × €78.5K/yr EU salary
€655
per month
GDPR compliance overhead
DPO + legal + audits · IAPP-EY 2025
€2,917
per month
TOTAL CLOUD OVERHEAD
€6,939
per month
COST COMPARISON — VISUAL
CLOUD OVERHEAD€6,939/mo
COMPUDENSER€29/mo
€29
€6,910
Monthly savings
€82,920
Annual savings
239x
ROI multiplier
RISK EXPOSURE YOU CARRY ON CLOUD
Breach cost avg
$4.88M
IBM Cost of Data Breach 2024
Breach probability
80%
of companies hit in 2024 · CloudPSO
GDPR median fine
€185K
mid-size co · DLA Piper Jan 2025
Compudenser: no central server = no attack surface for misconfigurations. GDPR by architecture = no data transfer risk. Schrems II liability: €0.
Your cloud overhead: €6,939/month
Compudenser: €29/month flat. No egress. No waste. No Schrems II.
FULL BENCHMARK DATA — SOURCED
| METRIC | SEED | SERIES A | SME | ENTERPRISE | SOURCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud bill (monthly) | €500–5K | €5K–25K | €2K–10K | >€12M/yr | Spendark 2026 |
| Waste % | 35% overspend | 28–32% | 28–32% | 27% | Flexera 2025 |
| Egress $0.09/GB | $45–$90/mo | $270–$900/mo | $135–$450/mo | $9K+/mo | AWS pricing 2025 |
| DevOps overhead | ~1 eng FTE | 2–5 eng FTE | 1–3 eng FTE | 10+ eng FTE | DORA 2024 |
| GDPR overhead/yr | €20K–50K | €50K–120K | €35K–80K | €1.3M avg | IAPP-EY 2025 |
| Breach risk | 80%/yr | 80%/yr | 80%/yr | 80%/yr | CloudPSO 2025 |
| Compudenser | €29/mo FLAT | €99/mo FLAT | €99/mo FLAT | €299/mo FLAT | compudenser.eu |