Capability · FinOps & cost
Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)
Lower, governed cloud spend — without losing performance.
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 engagementStart here
Starts as the fixed-scope Cloud Cost & FinOps Audit (~2 weeks); the roadmap it produces is executable by your team or ours.
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.
How we think about this problem
All field notesFinOps for DevOps teams: cost accountability without the blame
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Treat spend as a real-time engineering signal, not a month-end finance surprise.
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FinOpsSpot instances in production: 60% off without the 3 a.m. pages
60–90% off on-demand without the 3 a.m. pages — engineering, not luck.
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Find your recoverable cloud waste
Bring last month's bill. We'll tell you which part of it is structure and which part is habit.