Cloud Cost Management

We treat cloud cost management as a continuous FinOps discipline, not a one-time cleanup. Most engagements begin with an inventory of every running resource across AWS, Azure, and GCP, followed by a tagging audit using AWS Cost Allocation Tags, Azure Resource Tags, and GCP Labels. Because our team's roots are in cloud audit and compliance work, the tag taxonomy is built to double as audit evidence -- the same labels that drive cost reports also map to SOC 2 and HIPAA scope decisions. Within the first two weeks you see a per-team, per-product, per-environment cost breakdown that maps engineering decisions to invoice lines.

Our optimization playbook draws from FinOps Foundation principles. Right-sizing EC2, RDS, and EKS workloads through Compute Optimizer and Trusted Advisor recommendations. Committing to Savings Plans and Reserved Instances with 1-3 year horizons aligned to your funding runway. Shutting idle staging environments on schedule. Customers typically realize 30-40% reduction in monthly spend within 90 days while maintaining latency and uptime SLAs.

Long-term controls are encoded as guardrails, not as Slack reminders. AWS Budgets with machine-learning anomaly detection. Service Control Policies that block over-provisioned instance families. Spend alerts routed to the team that owns the resource via tag-based ownership. You receive a weekly dashboard, a quarterly business review, and the option to layer a third-party FinOps platform on top if you prefer the extra UI -- though many of our customers run with our team alone and capture the same outcomes without the platform license.