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FinOps and Cost Control

Cloud spend under control. Every month.

Tagging strategies, budget alerts, and regular spend reviews that keep your cloud bill predictable and your team accountable. We typically reduce cloud spend by 20 to 35 percent within 90 days.

AWS Cost Management
Azure Cost Management
Reserved Instances
FinOps Certified
30%
Average cloud cost reduction
30d
Time to first savings
100%
Spend visibility achieved
Monthly
Spend reviews with your team
What Is Included

Full FinOps practice. Visibility to governance.

From tagging and cost visibility to right-sizing, commitment planning, and ongoing governance, every aspect of cloud financial management covered.

Tagging Strategy and Enforcement

Comprehensive tagging taxonomy designed for your organisation. Tags enforced via policy at resource creation. Untagged resources identified and remediated. Cost allocation by team, project, and environment.

Tagging TaxonomyPolicy EnforcementCost Allocation

Budget Alerts and Anomaly Detection

Budget thresholds set per account, team, and service. Anomaly detection configured to flag unexpected spend spikes. Alerts routed to finance and engineering teams with context.

Budget ThresholdsAnomaly DetectionSpend Alerts

Cost Visibility and Reporting

Unified cost dashboards across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Showback and chargeback reports for internal teams. Monthly spend reviews with trend analysis and forecast modelling.

Cost DashboardsShowback ReportsForecast Modelling

Right-Sizing and Waste Elimination

Idle and oversized resources identified and right-sized. Unattached volumes, unused load balancers, and orphaned snapshots removed. Savings tracked and reported monthly.

Right-SizingWaste EliminationSavings Tracking

Reserved Instances and Savings Plans

Commitment-based discount analysis for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. Purchase recommendations based on usage patterns. Commitment portfolio managed and optimised quarterly.

Reserved InstancesSavings PlansCommitment Analysis

FinOps Culture and Governance

FinOps practice established within your organisation. Cost ownership assigned to engineering teams. Regular spend reviews scheduled. FinOps maturity roadmap developed and tracked.

Cost OwnershipSpend ReviewsFinOps Maturity
How We Work

From uncontrolled spend to FinOps maturity in six steps.

A structured approach that delivers quick savings while building the long-term governance your organisation needs.

01

Spend Audit

Full analysis of your current cloud spend across all accounts and services. Waste, inefficiency, and optimisation opportunities identified and quantified.

02

Tagging Design

Tagging taxonomy designed for your organisation structure. Mandatory tags defined. Enforcement policy written. Existing resources audited for compliance.

03

Visibility Setup

Cost dashboards deployed. Budget alerts configured. Anomaly detection enabled. Showback reports created for each team and project.

04

Quick Wins

Idle resources terminated. Oversized instances right-sized. Unused services decommissioned. Immediate savings realised and documented within the first 30 days.

05

Commitment Planning

Reserved Instance and Savings Plan analysis completed. Purchase recommendations presented. Commitment portfolio optimised based on usage patterns and growth forecast.

06

Ongoing Governance

Monthly spend reviews with your team. Quarterly FinOps health checks. New services reviewed for cost efficiency before deployment. Annual commitment portfolio review.

Real Results

FinOps delivered for UK businesses.

Scale-Up, London

A scale-up was spending 40 percent more on AWS than budgeted. No tagging, no cost allocation, and no visibility into which teams or products were driving spend. Finance had no confidence in forecasts.

Full tagging strategy implemented. Cost dashboards deployed. 35 percent of spend identified as waste and eliminated. Finance now has accurate forecasts. Engineering teams own their cloud costs.

Media Company, Manchester

A media company had significant Azure spend but no Reserved Instance coverage. They were paying on-demand rates for workloads that had been running continuously for over a year.

Reserved Instance analysis completed. 3-year commitments purchased for stable workloads. Annual saving of 42 percent on compute costs. Commitment portfolio reviewed quarterly to maintain optimisation.

Retail Group, Birmingham

A retail group had 12 AWS accounts with no centralised cost visibility. Each team was spending independently with no accountability. Total cloud spend had grown 80 percent in 18 months with no corresponding revenue growth.

AWS Organizations consolidated billing implemented. Tagging enforced via Service Control Policies. Chargeback reports created per business unit. Cloud spend growth reduced to 15 percent year-on-year.

Ready to Cut Your Cloud Bill?

Cloud spend growing faster than revenue? We can fix that.

Our free cloud spend audit identifies waste, inefficiency, and quick wins across your entire cloud estate. Most clients see savings within 30 days.