Capability 03
FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimisation
Create visibility, accountability and repeatable optimisation practices that reduce waste and improve cloud economics — without slowing engineering down.
The challenge
Cloud spend grows faster than anyone can explain it.
- Cost reports that engineers don’t trust and finance can’t act on.
- Idle, unattached and oversized resources that quietly accumulate.
- Commitment purchases made without usage evidence behind them.
- One-off clean-ups that recur because nothing prevents them.
Our approach
Make cost visible, act safely, keep it that way.
- 01
Establish visibility
Build CUR/FOCUS-aligned cost datasets and dashboards both engineers and finance can use.
- 02
Find and prioritise
Analyse compute, storage and database usage to rank opportunities by value and risk.
- 03
Act safely
Rightsize, clean up and apply lifecycle policies through code and change control.
- 04
Sustain
Embed cost governance, an optimisation backlog and a regular reporting cadence.
Representative activities
- Cost and usage reporting
- CUR / FOCUS-aligned data
- Dashboards for engineering and finance
- Compute and database rightsizing
- Storage optimisation
- Idle and unattached resource remediation
- RDS and compute commitment analysis
- Lifecycle policies
- Cost governance
- Optimisation backlog
Technology
- AWS CUR
- FOCUS
- Athena
- QuickSight
- EC2
- RDS
- S3
- EBS
- Terraform
Expected outcomes
Decision-quality reporting
One view of cost that technical and financial stakeholders both trust.
A prioritised backlog
Opportunities ranked by value and effort, ready for delivery teams.
Clear accountability
Spend attributed to the teams and workloads that drive it.
Waste that stays gone
Guardrails and lifecycle policies that prevent recurrence.