Our FinOps experts typically save clients 30%+ on their cloud spend through Reserved Instances, rightsizing, and continuous optimisation
FAQs for software vendors
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FinOps (Financial Operations) is a cultural practice that brings financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud. It's the combination of people, processes, and technology to manage and optimize cloud costs, ensuring you get the maximum business value from every pound spent on cloud services.
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RIs (Reserved Instances) and Savings Plans are discount models offered by cloud providers like AWS and Azure. By committing to a specific amount of compute usage (e.g., for 1 or 3 years), you receive a significant discount (up to 70%) compared to on-demand pricing. Our FinOps team manages this complex commitment portfolio for you.
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We use a combination of tools and expertise. First, we provide a single pane of glass for visibility across all your clouds. Second, we are platform-agnostic, so we can identify if a database is cheaper to run on Azure SQL while your compute is cheaper on AWS. We manage RIs and Savings Plans on both platforms and recommend workload placements based on the best cost-performance ratio.
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Rightsizing is the process of analyzing the performance of your cloud resources (like virtual machines) and matching them to the actual demand. Often, resources are "over-provisioned" (e.g., a massive server is running a simple web app). We identify these and "rightsize" them to a smaller, cheaper instance, instantly saving money without impacting performance.
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You can see "quick wins" from eliminating waste (like unattached disks or idle test environments) within days. More significant savings from rightsizing are often realised within the first month. Major strategic savings from purchasing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans are implemented as soon as we have enough usage data (typically 30-60 days) to make an informed commitment.



