Unexplained Cloud Spend Growth
AWS / Azure spend growing 4× faster than workload demand without a defensible explanation.
Performance & Cost Advisory
FinOps governance, cloud cost optimization, right-sizing, technology health checks, and spend analytics.
Service Overview
Performance & Cost Advisory makes the technology estate defensible economically. FinOps governance, cloud cost optimisation, technology health checks, and licensing rationalisation that flatten the cost curve as workloads scale — and surface inefficiencies before the CFO does.
Common Challenges We Solve
Where buyers ask for our help.
Licence Sprawl
Multi-vendor licence estate with overlapping coverage and no single visibility.
Underutilised Resources
Provisioned compute and storage running at 10-20% utilisation while still billed at full capacity.
No FinOps Governance
Cost decisions made by individual engineers without visibility, chargeback, or policy.
Configuration Drift Causing Cost Surprises
Estates that have drifted from optimal configuration with quiet cost impact.
Performance Degradation Going Unnoticed
Health metrics declining slowly until customers complain.
Business Outcomes
Outcomes this service delivers.
Reduced Cloud Spend 25-40% TCO reduction sustained through governance Improved Resource Utilisation From <20% to 60-70% utilisation Eliminated Licence Waste 20-30% saving through rationalisation Improved Performance Posture Configuration drift detected and remediated FinOps Maturity Crawl → Walk → Run within 12 months
Service Capabilities
What we optimise.
FinOps & Cloud Cost Governance
Cloud spend visibility, right-sizing recommendations, commitment planning, waste elimination, and chargeback frameworks.
Technology Health Assessment
Periodic health checks across infrastructure, security, and networking that catch configuration drift and capacity risks.
Licensing Optimization
Software license audit, true-up analysis, and vendor negotiation support to eliminate overspend.
Process / Methodology
How we deliver this service.
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Visibility
Cloud spend, licence usage, and resource-utilisation transparency.
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Diagnose
Inefficiency identification, waste analysis, and rightsize candidates.
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Optimise
Right-sizing, commitment planning, and licence rationalisation.
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Govern
FinOps controls, chargeback frameworks, and cost-policy enforcement.
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Improve
Quarterly health checks, anomaly detection, and continuous optimisation.
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Report
Unit economics, dashboards, and board-level cost narratives.
Technology Stack
Platforms and tools we operate across.
Vendor-neutral by design — we hold active certifications across competing platforms so the recommendation follows your workload, not our partner tier.
- AWS Cost Explorer
- Azure Cost Management
- Apptio Cloudability
- CloudHealth
- Spot.io
- Datadog
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Kubernetes
- AWS Trusted Advisor
Industry Relevance
How this service adapts by sector.
Technology
Technology
FinOps maturity for SaaS platforms with unit-economics dashboards by team.
BFSI
Banking & Finance
Cost transparency across mainframe, cloud, and DevOps with regulatory defensibility.
Retail
Retail
Peak-event cost optimisation — scale aggressively for events, right-size for off-peak.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Multi-site cost transparency across plants, hybrid cloud, and OT.
Case Studies
Programmes we have delivered.
SaaS Platform Reduced AWS Spend by 37%
Challenge
Rapid customer growth pushed monthly AWS spend up 4× in 18 months without proportional revenue growth, putting margin targets at risk.
Solution
Implemented FinOps governance, Kubernetes right-sizing, Reserved Instance / Savings Plan strategy, and unit-economics dashboards across 14 product teams.
Outcome
Cut monthly AWS spend by 37% within 6 months while improving p99 latency 22%. Cost-per-customer now tracked at the team level.
SLAs & Engagement Models
How we structure the engagement.
Engagement Models
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FinOps Assessment
4-6 week diagnostic with cost reduction recommendations.
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Optimisation Programme
Multi-month execution with measured savings and governance rollout.
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FinOps Retainer
Ongoing FinOps advisory with quarterly health checks.
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Licence Audit & Rationalisation
Independent licence assessment with vendor-negotiation support.
SLA Examples
- Documented savings within first 90 days
- Quarterly health checks with measured improvements
- Cost anomaly alerts within 24 hours
- Transparent unit economics by team or product
- FinOps maturity benchmarked against industry baseline
Insights & perspectives
Perspectives from the practice.
Briefs, case studies, and points of view from the people doing the work — written for practitioners, not pitch decks.
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