Cloud Services // Cost Optimization & FinOps
Best for firms spending $20k+/month on cloud

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.

20–40%
Typical reduction in cloud spend after the first 6 months of FinOps
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Why cloud bills get out of control.

pain 01

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.

pain 02

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.

pain 03

Reserved discounts expired.

Bought 1-year RIs, forgot to renew. Now on full pay-as-you-go pricing, 60% more expensive.

pain 04

No tagging, no budgets.

Can't tell which team or project is spending what. Can't set spending guardrails.

What you get

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.

The math

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 it works

How we run a FinOps practice.

Same rhythm every month. No big-bang cleanup that immediately drifts back.

  1. 01

    Inform

    Baseline cost report. Where's the money going right now. Who owns what.

  2. 02

    Optimize

    Hit the easy wins: idle instances, oversized disks, unused snapshots, missing tags. Quick savings in the first 30 days.

  3. 03

    Commit

    Buy reserved instances or savings plans for the steady baseline. Locks in 30–60% off.

  4. 04

    Operate

    Monthly review. New resources tagged. New spend explained. Budgets adjusted.

  5. 05

    Govern

    Engineering teams get budgets. Auto-alerts when projects approach limits. Culture of cost-awareness.

Built on

FinOps toolset.

Cloud cost tools
AWS Cost ExplorerAzure Cost ManagementGCP BillingAWS Compute Optimizer
Third-party FinOps
CloudHealthCloudabilityVantageSpot by NetApp
Tagging + governance
AWS Organizations + SCPsAzure PolicyTerraform Cloud governance modules
By the numbers

What clients typically see.

20–40
%
Cost reduction

In the first 6 months. Higher for firms that have never optimized.

100
%
Tagging coverage

Every resource tagged with team + project + environment within 60 days.

<5
%
Variance to budget

Monthly spend stays within 5% of forecast.

3–7
x
ROI on engagement

Average return — engagement cost vs. savings — in the first year.

From a client
“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.”
Head of Engineering · 60-engineer fintech · King West, Toronto
Who needs this

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.
FAQ
Q01

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.

Q02

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.

Q03

What about Azure or GCP?

Same approach. Most of our largest savings to date have been AWS, but the methodology applies cross-cloud.

Q04

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.

Next step

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.

Send the bills