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Cloud Cost Optimization

Continuously reduce cloud spend through rightsizing, commitment optimisation, workload governance, automation and AI-powered visibility — without disrupting engineering velocity.

20 – 35 %

Average optimisation opportunity identified across cloud estates.

92 %+

Commitment utilisation target — RI, Savings Plans, CUDs.

Monthly

AI-powered optimisation dashboards, narrative reporting, executive view.

The problem we solve

Most cloud waste isn't hidden. It's ignored.

Organisations already have billing dashboards, CSP recommendations and optimisation reports. The findings sit there.

Zombie resources stay live. Oversized workloads persist. RI and Savings Plan portfolios drift. Environments run 24/7 for no reason. Engineering doesn’t own cost. Optimisation backlogs never get executed.

Cloud optimisation fails when it becomes a reporting exercise instead of an operational discipline.

The four optimisation principles

A continuous optimisation engine. Not a quarterly clean-up.

Four principles, run continuously — not a six-month project that ends.

Eliminate waste

idle compute

unattached storage

zombie resources

duplicate environments

orphaned snapshots

unused licenses

"The fastest savings come from resources nobody realised still existed."

Buy smarter

RI optimisation

Savings Plans

portfolio balancing

BYOL strategy

rate negotiation

"Commitment strategy should reduce cost exposure — not create it."

Engineer efficiently

rightsizing

autoscaling

Kubernetes optimisation

storage tiering

architecture efficiency

workload scheduling

"Sustainable optimisation happens inside engineering decisions — not outside them."

Automate continuously

scheduled shutdowns

policy enforcement

auto-remediation

anomaly detection

budget alerts

automated governance

"Optimisation should continue even when nobody is watching the dashboard."

IBM

IBM Software

IBM audits involving ILMT/BigFix, ECM, and Passport Advantage can create significant exposure. We challenge sub-capacity calculations, PVU measurements, product classifications, and contract interpretations.

ILMT deployment gaps and sub-capacity reconciliation
ECM product and metric classification
Passport Advantage contract interpretation
Authorised User vs. PVU disputes

ORC

Oracle

Oracle audits often involve complex virtualisation, ULA, processor, Java, and indirect-access licensing rules. We challenge methodology and help reduce inflated opening claims.

VMware and cloud virtualisation
Oracle Java SE licensing
ULA certification scope
Indirect access claims

MSFT

Microsoft

Microsoft audits and true-ups can involve complex user, device, cloud, and licensing-tier rules. We review the contractual position and challenge unsupported claims.

M365 / EMS licensing
Azure Hybrid Benefit
SQL Server virtualisation
True-Up and MPSA reconciliation

SAP

SAP audits can create significant exposure through indirect access, named-user licensing, and complex product metrics. We analyse the claims and build an evidence-based defence.

Indirect and digital access claims
Named-user classification
S/4HANA licensing
BTP and cloud licensing scope

FinOps Lifecycle

Detect

Continuous spend analysis across cloud environments. Anomalies surfaced, savings backlog built.

Prioritise

Rank opportunities by savings potential, engineering effort and operational risk. Remediation lifecycle managed.

Execute

Coordinate with platform and engineering teams. Implementation owned, not handed off as a recommendation.

Govern

Track realised savings, optimisation velocity, compliance. Monthly cadence. Feeds back into Detect.

Ready to talk

Want to know how much cloud waste is operationally recoverable?

A consultation focused on current optimisation maturity, commitment strategy, engineering accountability, automation readiness and waste visibility — with an indicative savings range, optimisation priorities and an implementation complexity estimate.