Cloud FinOps on Azure
Cloud spend becomes a line item each team owns and can defend. We set up cost allocation through tagging policy and account hierarchy across your Azure estate.
Nobody owns the invoice
Cloud invoices arrive as one aggregated figure per subscription, so a cost increase cannot be traced to the team, service or release that caused it. Untagged resources, idle capacity and oversized SKUs then accumulate quietly, because nobody owns the line they would have to defend.
You do not need another dashboard: you need a tagging taxonomy your engineers actually apply, Azure Policy rules that block untagged deployments, and a monthly forum where every anomaly gets an owner and a date. Cost control fails as an operating model long before it fails as a tool. Spend is a design decision.
Four levers, one sustained reduction
No single lever explains the number. The saving comes from four operational changes applied together across the cloud and AI workload lifecycle, and sustained rather than achieved once.
Sustainable cost reduction
Proven cloud cost reduction between 20% and 40% through continuous optimization. Your own baseline is captured during the assessment.
What the engagement includes
Four workstreams: allocation through tagging policy, optimisation of idle and oversized resources found with Azure Resource Graph queries, the FinOps operating model, and automation that enforces tags in Bicep templates. If your monthly cloud bill is under 30k, the operating model costs more than it saves; we say so on the first call.
Duration
Monthly cadence: allocation model and baseline first, then a recurring optimisation and forecast review
Team
FinOps lead, cloud architect and platform engineer, working alongside your cloud and finance owners
What we need from you
Reader access to the billing account and Azure Cost Management, your subscription hierarchy, and one named owner per business unit
What you take away
Tagging taxonomy, Azure Policy definitions, allocation model, waste backlog with owners, reservation and savings plan recommendations, and a monthly cost review pack
What you take away
- Cost allocation model and dashboards
- Optimization roadmap and quick wins
- FinOps operating model
- Automated cost controls
Start with a cost baseline
One 60-minute session on your billing export. You leave with your three largest sources of waste, quantified, and the tagging gaps behind them.
Request your cost baseline