FinOps & efficiency

Cloud Cost Optimization

Structured spend reviews, rightsizing and governance so finance and engineering share the same picture of value and waste.

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Cloud Cost Optimization Coverage

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and cross-cloud FinOps — rightsizing, commitments and governance with clear outcomes per platform.

Cloud platform

Amazon Web Services

Problems solved

  • EC2 and RDS instances running oversized for months
  • Unused EBS volumes, snapshots and elastic IPs accumulating cost
  • Savings Plans and Reserved Instances misaligned to usage patterns
  • Data transfer and NAT gateway charges growing unchecked
  • Tagging gaps that prevent team-level accountability

Technologies

  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • Compute Optimizer
  • Savings Plans
  • Reserved Instances
  • AWS Budgets
  • Cost allocation tags

Outcomes

  • Lower AWS monthly spend
  • Right-sized compute and storage
  • Commitment coverage matched to usage
  • Team-visible cost ownership

Cloud platform

Microsoft Azure

Problems solved

  • Idle VMs and orphaned disks across subscriptions
  • Azure Hybrid Benefit and reservations underutilized
  • Spend spikes from ungoverned dev/test environments
  • Licensing and PaaS costs not tied to business owners
  • No regular review cadence between finance and engineering

Technologies

  • Azure Cost Management
  • Azure Advisor
  • Reservations
  • Hybrid Benefit
  • Budgets & alerts
  • Resource locks & policies

Outcomes

  • Reduced Azure waste
  • Better reservation utilization
  • Governed non-production spend
  • Shared FinOps visibility

Cloud platform

Google Cloud

Problems solved

  • Idle Compute Engine and GKE nodes left running continuously
  • Committed use discounts not aligned to steady-state workloads
  • Egress and inter-region traffic costs poorly understood
  • Project-level budgets without enforcement or alerts
  • BigQuery and storage costs scaling faster than product revenue

Technologies

  • Cloud Billing
  • Recommender
  • Committed use discounts
  • Budget alerts
  • Label-based chargeback
  • Storage lifecycle rules

Outcomes

  • Leaner GCP workloads
  • Predictable discount coverage
  • Controlled data egress spend
  • Project owners accountable for growth

Cross-cloud

FinOps & Governance

Problems solved

  • Cloud spend reviews that produce reports but not engineering actions
  • No shared KPIs between finance, engineering and leadership
  • Autoscaling and logging policies that inflate cost silently
  • Policy exceptions granted without expiry or review
  • Multi-cloud totals invisible until invoice reconciliation

Technologies

  • FinOps frameworks
  • Governance policies
  • Rightsizing workflows
  • Showback & chargeback
  • Anomaly detection
  • Executive dashboards

Outcomes

  • Engineering-backed cost reduction
  • Shared accountability for spend
  • Governance that prevents surprise growth
  • FinOps cadence teams can sustain

Focus metrics

  • Reduce cloud waste
  • Improve utilization
  • Optimize scaling policies
  • Control unexpected growth

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