Managed FinOps

Take control of your cloud spend. Get the visibility, governance, and expert guidance you need to make every pound of cloud investment count.

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Challenges we solve

Cloud costs have a habit of creeping up. These are the problems we hear most often from organisations wrestling with their cloud bill.

No visibility into what you're actually spending

Your cloud bill lands each month and nobody can tell you where the money went. Cost data is fragmented across accounts, teams, and providers — making informed decisions almost impossible.

Waste you know exists but can't pin down

Idle resources, oversized instances, orphaned storage — you suspect they're there, but without the right tooling and expertise, identifying and eliminating waste is a full-time job nobody has capacity for.

Optimisation models you're not leveraging

Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot pricing, start-stop policies — the options are powerful but complex. Getting them wrong can cost more than doing nothing at all.

No one owns cloud cost accountability

Finance wants reporting. Engineering wants freedom. The board wants forecasts. Without a dedicated FinOps function bridging these worlds, cloud governance falls between the cracks.

What is Managed FinOps?

Claranet's Managed FinOps service gives you a dedicated team of cloud financial specialists working alongside your organisation to bring clarity, control, and continuous improvement to your cloud spend. Built on CloudHealth by VMware — a Gartner-recognised leader in cloud management — we don't just hand you a dashboard and walk away.

The service operates across three iterative phases. First, we Inform — giving you full visibility into where your money goes, with cost allocation, tagging governance, and clear reporting. Then we Optimise — identifying waste, rightsizing resources, and leveraging commercial models like Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. Finally, we Operate — embedding continuous cost governance so your organisation stays on top of spend as your cloud estate evolves.

Whether you're running workloads on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, this service scales with you. It's designed for organisations that are past the experimentation phase and need their cloud investment to start delivering measurable value.

Key Benefits

Full cost visibility across all cloud accounts and providers
Expert-led rightsizing and waste elimination
Reserved Instance and Savings Plan management
Tagging governance and compliance enforcement
Regular reviews with a dedicated FinOps consultant
Automated alerts when spend exceeds defined thresholds

Credentials

10,000+ Customers across Europe

25+ Years managing cloud infrastructure

3 Hyperscaler platforms supported

65% Savings shared via Business Transformation Pot

Service tiers

Two tiers designed to match the maturity of your FinOps practice — from getting started to running a fully managed programme.

Standard

Ideal for organisations taking their first steps with cloud cost management.

CloudHealth platform access and dashboards
Quarterly business reviews
Rightsizing and waste analysis reports
Cost allocation and tagging recommendations
Email and Microsoft Teams support

Enhanced

A fully managed FinOps programme with a dedicated consultant and proactive governance.

Monthly reviews plus weekly touchpoints
Dedicated FinOps consultant
Power BI dashboards and custom reporting
Reservation and Savings Plan management
Tagging compliance and governance policies
Budget implementation and threshold alerting
Licensing reviews and ad-hoc reporting

Technical capabilities

Under the bonnet, here's what powers your Managed FinOps service.

CloudHealth by VMware

Your cost management platform — a Gartner-recognised leader. CloudHealth ingests billing data from AWS, Azure, and GCP, providing unified dashboards, automated policy enforcement, and deep analytics across your entire multi-cloud estate.
Rightsizing and waste analysis

We identify underutilised compute, oversized instances, idle load balancers, and orphaned storage volumes. Every recommendation comes with projected savings so you can prioritise what to act on first.
Reservation and commitment management

Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot pricing — we manage the full spectrum of commercial models to reduce your effective compute rate without locking you into rigid commitments.
Tagging governance and compliance

Untagged resources are invisible resources. We implement and enforce tagging policies that drive accurate cost allocation, enable showback and chargeback, and give business units ownership of their own spend.
Automated threshold alerting

Budget thresholds trigger automated alerts before you overshoot. We configure spend anomaly detection and escalation paths so the right people know about cost spikes before they become budget surprises.
Power BI and custom reporting

For Enhanced tier customers, we build bespoke Power BI dashboards tailored to your reporting requirements — from board-level summaries to team-level breakdowns — with data refreshed and maintained by our FinOps team.

How we work: three phases of FinOps maturity

Our iterative approach moves your organisation from reactive cost management to proactive cloud financial governance.

Phase 1: Inform

We start with visibility. Onboard your cloud accounts into CloudHealth, implement tagging standards, build cost allocation models, and create the dashboards your teams need to understand where every pound is going.

Phase 2: Optimise

With clear data in hand, we identify savings opportunities. Rightsizing, reservation management, waste elimination, start-stop scheduling — each recommendation is prioritised by impact and effort.

Phase 3: Operate

Cost governance becomes business as usual. Continuous monitoring, regular reviews, governance policies, and budget controls ensure your cloud spend stays optimised as your estate grows and evolves.