Cloud FinOps as a Service

Organisations continue to struggle with cloud costs with optimisation of existing cloud continuing to top the priority list for the fifth year running (Flexera State of the Cloud Report) with more than 35% estimated wastage on average.

Our FinOps Certified Practitioners become an extension of your team, working side by side with application owners, providing advisory services relating to funding programs, cost saving initiatives and years of experience to identify ongoing cost savings across your cloud environments, developing relationships with key stakeholders in each team with the aim of ensuring prompt implementation of cost saving initiatives based on the most substantial impact and least effort.

Deliverables

• Team augmentation
• Practice establishment
• Framework implementation
• Showback / Chargeback
• Cloud billing support assistance including ticket submission
• Savings Plan utilisation monitoring and alerting
• Reserved Instance utilisation monitoring and alerting
• Proactive rightsizing and modernisation recommendations
• Health Check (unused EBS volumes, tagging strategy, security)
• Strategic procurement review (projects and new workload funding)
• Asset visibility and tagging assistance
• Identification of all optimisation opportunities
• Grouping of opportunities by impact and potential saving opportunity (intrusive / non-intrusive)
• Wastage identification and recommendations