Cloud Cost Optimization
A structured accelerator to identify, reduce, and govern cloud spend — from initial assessment through to implemented controls and ongoing visibility.
Assessment
Before optimising spend, you need to understand it. The assessment gives you a complete picture of where money is going, what is being wasted, and where the highest-impact opportunities lie.
Spend Analysis
Break down cloud spend by service, team, environment, and time period to surface patterns and anomalies.
Tagging Review
Audit the coverage and consistency of resource tags — the foundation for accurate cost allocation.
Compute Sizing Analysis
Identify over-provisioned instances and containers using historical utilisation data to right-size without impacting performance.
Waste Analysis
Detect idle resources, orphaned volumes, unused reserved capacity, and other sources of direct waste.
Design
Using assessment findings, we design the governance structures, visibility tooling, and savings strategies needed to bring spend under control and keep it there.
Budgets & Alerts
Define budget boundaries per team, project, or environment with automated alerts before thresholds are breached.
Tagging Strategy
Design a consistent, enforceable tagging taxonomy that enables accurate cost allocation across the organisation.
Cost Dashboard
Design real-time visibility dashboards that surface spend trends, anomalies, and per-team breakdowns in one place.
Savings & Reservation Strategy
Model the optimal mix of on-demand, reserved, and spot capacity to maximise savings without compromising availability.
Implementation
Designs are only valuable when executed. The accelerator delivers hands-on implementation of every agreed initiative — with the controls, dashboards, and automations needed to sustain savings beyond the engagement.
Cleanup Support
Safely decommission idle resources, orphaned storage, and unused reserved capacity identified during the waste analysis.
Tagging Implementation
Roll out the agreed tagging strategy across all resources with policy enforcement to prevent untagged resources going forward.
Cost Dashboard
Deploy and configure the designed dashboards with live data connections, per-team views, and anomaly detection enabled.
Savings & Reservation Implementation
Purchase and configure the agreed reserved instances, savings plans, or spot strategies — and set up ongoing utilisation tracking.