Capability · FinOps & cost

Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)

Lower, governed cloud spend — without losing performance.

Find my recoverable cloud waste or view the fixed-scope entry

31%

lower monthly cloud spend

180+

resources assessed

43%

lower non-production compute spend

97%

cost-allocation coverage

Measured on one engagement — anonymised client, verified with the owner.

Sound familiar?

Two or more of these means this page is for you.

1Spend grows faster than usage — and nobody can say which part is growth and which is waste
2The bill arrives as one number; allocation by team or product is guesswork
3Non-production runs 24/7 because nobody owns turning it off
4Commitments feel risky because usage was never measured

The transformation

How this discipline behaves when it's done right

1
Baseline & allocation
Utilisation measured against provision, tagging enforced at the control plane, spend attributed to owners.
2
Optimisation levers
Right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiering, Spot and commitments — applied in the order that protects performance.
3
Governance that holds
Budgets, anomaly alerts routed to owners and a monthly cost review, so the bill stays governed after we leave.

Artifacts

What you hold at the end

Ledger
Cost baseline — utilisation vs provision, by owner
Plan
Prioritised savings roadmap with risk notes
Code
Tagging policy and scheduling automation
Report
Monthly governed-spend review

Evidence

What it did on a real system

Situation

A growing SaaS company whose Azure spend rose steadily, with no way to separate genuine growth from avoidable consumption.

Intervention

A utilisation review across 180+ resources — rightsizing, schedules, storage and commitments — plus tagging and an ownership model.

Measured result

Monthly cloud spend 31% lower with availability preserved; non-production compute down 43%; 97% of spend allocated to owners.

Verified with the engagement owner · client anonymised by agreement.

Read the full engagement

Start here

Starts as the fixed-scope Cloud Cost & FinOps Audit (~2 weeks); the roadmap it produces is executable by your team or ours.

View scope: Cloud Cost & FinOps Audit

Delivery & ongoing

Cost baseline and rightsizing
Reserved-capacity and Spot strategy
Autoscaling and tagging
Cost allocation and FinOps governance

Delivered as code with handover — or run ongoing as managed operations.

Will cost work hurt performance?

Not done in this order. The first levers — rightsizing against measured utilisation, scheduling idle environments — recover waste, not headroom. Performance-relevant changes are validated under load.