We help companies using the public cloud understand and control growing or unpredictable costs – so that spending matches real business needs.
Starting pointFreeCloud Cost Assessment
- Cost structure broken down by service and area
- List of optimisation actions with estimated impact and effort
- Recommendations on processes and budget control
Challenges
Problems companies bring to us
The bill grows faster than the business
Cloud costs rise month after month, and the cause is hard to pin down.
No visibility
It is unclear which teams, products or environments drive the costs.
Forgotten resources
Unused and oversized resources keep running for months because nobody owns switching them off.
Budget without control
You only find out about overspending from the invoice.
What we deliver
Costs you understand and control
We analyse spending, identify specific optimisation actions and introduce FinOps processes that keep costs under control after the project ends. We estimate savings potential only after analysing your infrastructure – we do not promise it upfront.
- A transparent cost structure
- Specific actions instead of general advice
- Ongoing budget control
- A process that keeps working
Starting point
Cloud Cost Assessment
We analyse spending and resource utilisation in your cloud environment.
What you get
- Cost structure broken down by service and area
- List of optimisation actions with estimated impact and effort
- Recommendations on processes and budget control
Example
How costs and savings can add up over time
The first months are mostly analysis and implementing changes. The financial effect grows with each further optimisation.
| Cumulative | Month 1 | Month 4 | Month 8 | Month 12 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engagement cost | €5k | €17k | €25k | €33k | €57k | €81k |
| Savings | €0k | €10k | €34k | €59k | €134k | €209k |
| Net | −€5k | −€7k | +€9k | +€26k | +€77k | +€128k |
Illustrative example for a cloud estate of about €500k per year. Assumptions: engagement cost of €5k per month for the first 3 months, then €2k per month; savings grow gradually to 15% of monthly spend. This is not a forecast or a price quote – a free Cloud Cost Assessment produces the figures for your environment.
Service scope
What the service covers
Cloud spending analysis
A review of costs by service, account, project and environment, and how they change over time.
Unused and oversized resources
Identifying resources that sit idle or are larger than the workload requires.
Rightsizing
Recommendations to match resource sizes to actual utilisation.
Cost allocation and visibility
Tagging and splitting costs by team, product and customer.
Budget monitoring
Budgets and alerts that flag deviations before they show up on the invoice.
Continuous optimisation
Regular reviews and ongoing improvements.
FinOps processes and governance
Roles, responsibilities and decision rules for cloud costs across the organisation.
Service scope
Optimisation areas
Examples of areas we analyse during a Cloud Cost Assessment.
| Area | What we check | Example actions |
|---|---|---|
| Compute | Instance and VM utilisation, environment schedules | Rightsizing, switching off test environments outside working hours, newer instance generations |
| Purchasing models | Share of on-demand pricing, workload stability | Savings Plans, reservations, Spot instances where safe |
| Storage | Volumes, snapshots, storage classes, retention | Removing unused volumes and snapshots, data lifecycle policies |
| Databases | Size, configuration and utilisation of managed databases | Rightsizing and pricing model choice, reducing redundant replicas |
| Network and data transfer | Transfer between zones, regions and to the internet | Traffic architecture changes, CDN, removing unnecessary flows |
| Containers and Kubernetes | Cluster and node utilisation, resource limits | Autoscaling, tuning requests and limits, node consolidation |
| Logs and monitoring | Log and metric volume and retention | Retention policies, filtering, archiving |
| Licences and services | Cloud licences and managed services | Reviewing licensing models, dropping unused services |
Actual savings potential depends on your architecture and how you use the cloud. We estimate it only after analysing your environment.
How we work
How the engagement works
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Cloud Cost Assessment
Analysis of spending, resource utilisation and cost management practices.
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Quick wins
We implement low-risk changes with fast impact.
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Structural changes
We optimise architecture, purchasing models and cost allocation.
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Continuous control
We introduce reporting, budgets and regular FinOps reviews.
Outcomes
What you get
- You know what each product, team or environment costs
- A prioritised list of optimisation actions
- Budget alerts instead of invoice surprises
- A FinOps process that keeps working after the project
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
It depends on your architecture and how you use the cloud. We give an estimate after the Cloud Cost Assessment, based on data from your environment.
We assess every change for its impact on performance and reliability. We do not recommend savings at the expense of stability.
Mainly AWS and Microsoft Azure. We discuss other public clouds case by case.
Start with: Cloud Cost Assessment
Tell us what your project is about – we will get back to you to agree the scope and timing. The assessment is free of charge.
