FinOps: A cloud bill every team can explain
Every line of your bill gets an owner, and each month an engineer reads it with you and proposes changes your team approves.
Right-size first, then commit
What you pay for today
A discount bought before the clean-up locks the waste in for one or three years.
Every line of the bill has an owner
This month’s bill
- Checkout
- Search
- Data platform
- Staging and test
- Shared cluster
- Orders
- Payments
- Reports
- AI models
- Support assistant
- Recommendations
- No owner yet
- A tag policy on every new resource
- Shared clusters split by what each team requests or uses
- AI usage split by model and application, where the cloud records it
Split by team in the monthly cost report, through tags you agree with us.
One month, read with you
- The bill closes
- The report, read with your engineer
- Changes sent to your team for a yes
- Budget check
An anomaly, on any day: the owner is told
The clouds’ own agents can draft part of it: AWS FinOps Agent, Azure Copilot Optimization Agent and Gemini Cloud Assist in Cloud Billing, each a preview. An engineer checks every line, and your team approves every change.
The tools, on each cloud
- See and split
- AWS Cost Explorer, cost allocation tags and AWS Cost Categories
- Watch
- AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
- Find
- AWS Compute Optimizer and Cost Optimization Hub
- Commit
- Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
Where you run more than one cloud, FOCUS, an open format all three can export, puts the bills side by side (Google Cloud’s export is a preview).
Customer work
- Audit & Compliance
Under-used instances consolidated, Savings Plans applied and billing alerts added.
$12,000 to $6,000 a monthAfter phase oneSheba.xyzOnline service marketplace, BangladeshRead the story: Sheba.xyz (opens in a new tab) - Audit & Compliance
A tagging strategy for who spends what, and resources right-sized to real use.
25% lower cloud costLarge e-commerce companyE-commerceRead the story: Large e-commerce company (opens in a new tab) - Audit & Compliance
A capacity plan from six months of operating data, with budgets and forecasts.
Up to 8% lower costAcross several customersSmall and medium businessesE-commerce, retail, art and culture, fashion and tourismRead the story: Small and medium businesses (opens in a new tab)
Questions
Will you change anything without asking?
No. We propose each change with its owner, and your team approves it. A commitment is bought only on your written yes.
Can you work on an account you do not bill?
Yes. FinOps works on any account on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Paying AWS through us is a separate service, Cloud Billing.
Does FinOps mean cutting capacity?
No. We match capacity to measured use and keep headroom where the load needs it.
Do we need to buy a FinOps tool?
Not to start. The clouds’ own tools cover most of the work.