Stop paying for cloud you don't use.
Cloud bills go up. Reserved instances expire. Engineers spin up oversized servers and forget about them. Nobody owns the bill, so nobody cleans it up. We bring in a structured FinOps practice — tagging, budgets, alerts, monthly cleanup — and most clients see 20–40% reduction in the first six months.
Why cloud bills get out of control.
Bill goes up every month. Nobody knows why.
No one's looking at it line by line. By the time finance asks, it's already 60% higher than last year.
We're paying for instances that aren't doing anything.
Spun up for a test, forgotten about. Running 24/7 at full size. Nobody owns it.
Reserved discounts expired.
Bought 1-year RIs, forgot to renew. Now on full pay-as-you-go pricing, 60% more expensive.
No tagging, no budgets.
Can't tell which team or project is spending what. Can't set spending guardrails.
The FinOps program.
- 01
Tagging + cost allocation
Every resource tagged with team, project, environment. Now you know who spends what.
- 02
Right-sizing
Find the oversized instances, the idle ones, the orphaned disks. Resize or kill. Monthly.
- 03
Reserved + savings plans
Commit to baseline usage with 1- or 3-year discounts. 30–60% off list price for steady workloads.
- 04
Budget alerts
Spending hits 50%/75%/90% of monthly budget → email + Slack ping. No surprise invoices.
- 05
Storage cleanup
Old snapshots, orphaned volumes, untiered cold storage. Cleaning these alone often pays for the engagement.
- 06
Monthly cost report
Where money went, what changed, what to do next. Plain English, board-ready.
Real example: 40-engineer SaaS firm.
First 90 days of FinOps engagement. AWS bill, monthly.
| Month 1 (before) | Month 4 (after) | |
|---|---|---|
| EC2 compute (right-sized) | $24,600 | $11,800 |
| EBS volumes + snapshots | $3,400 | $1,200 |
| S3 storage (tiered) | $2,100 | $640 |
| RDS databases | $5,200 | $3,100 |
| Reserved + savings plans | $0 | -$4,800 |
| Data transfer | $1,800 | $1,800 |
| Other services | $2,400 | $2,100 |
| Total monthly AWS bill | $39,500 | $15,840 |
How we run a FinOps practice.
Same rhythm every month. No big-bang cleanup that immediately drifts back.
- 01
Inform
Baseline cost report. Where's the money going right now. Who owns what.
- 02
Optimize
Hit the easy wins: idle instances, oversized disks, unused snapshots, missing tags. Quick savings in the first 30 days.
- 03
Commit
Buy reserved instances or savings plans for the steady baseline. Locks in 30–60% off.
- 04
Operate
Monthly review. New resources tagged. New spend explained. Budgets adjusted.
- 05
Govern
Engineering teams get budgets. Auto-alerts when projects approach limits. Culture of cost-awareness.
FinOps toolset.
What clients typically see.
In the first 6 months. Higher for firms that have never optimized.
Every resource tagged with team + project + environment within 60 days.
Monthly spend stays within 5% of forecast.
Average return — engagement cost vs. savings — in the first year.
“Our AWS bill was $40k a month and growing. After 6 months of Senator running our FinOps, we're at $18k for the same workloads. The CFO stopped asking nervous questions in the board meeting.”
Who needs this.
- Any firm spending $20k+/month on cloud with growing bills.
- Firms whose finance team can't explain the cloud bill to the board.
- Engineering-led shops where cost ownership is unclear.
- Firms post-acquisition with inherited cloud accounts they don't fully understand.
Q01Do you get a cut of the savings?
Do you get a cut of the savings?
Optional — we offer flat-fee or shared-savings models. Shared-savings (we keep 20–30% of measured first-year savings) is popular because it aligns incentives.
Q02Will you slow down our engineers?
Will you slow down our engineers?
No. The point is faster decisions with cost in mind, not approval gates. We give engineers budgets and visibility, not bureaucracy.
Q03What about Azure or GCP?
What about Azure or GCP?
Same approach. Most of our largest savings to date have been AWS, but the methodology applies cross-cloud.
Q04How long until we see results?
How long until we see results?
First quick wins in week 2. Material monthly savings by month 2. Big reserved-instance commits by month 3.
Free cloud bill audit.
Send us your last three months of AWS or Azure invoices. We'll send back a written 'here's where the easy savings are' report within 5 business days.