The path to success is not "one size fits all."
Take a comprehensive approach to reducing waste and creating value in the cloud.
Spend Visibility
Understand the real cost drivers across your business.
Create timely and accurate views into cloud spending for all levels of the organization.
A scalable reporting strategy will:
- Institute an end-to-end cost allocation approach that best aligns with your business.
- Design, assess, and remediate an appropriate resource tagging model.
- Curate cost reports for teams that incorporate usage trends and spending forecasts.
- Create budgets and anomaly notifications for cost owners.
- Model and share optimization opportunities to decision-makers on a regular cadence.
Optimization
Go beyond waste and identify workload inefficiencies
Workload efficiency continues to be overlooked in FinOps, yet yields the greatest savings and most valuable cost control levers for business stakeholders. There is no greater space for this right now than spend on ML and LLMs.
Workload optimization and tuning comes from:
- Visibility of total workload cost over shared platforms and resources.
- Focusing 80% of effort on the top 20% of workload spend.
- Taking a multi displined approach to de-bottlenecking inefficiencies and applying best practices.
- Evaluating cost of benefit from workloads and scaling as apropriate for your business.
- Take a comprensive strategy to data storage and retention based on true performance requirements.
Modernization
Reduce cost by adopting cloud-native services.
Workload modernization is key to unlocking the full value of the public cloud. Stop struggling with where to look and how to start.
Modernization-driven optimization enables your teams to:
- Assess application portfolio to identify and rank opportunities.
- Benchmark current-state architecture against industry-leading modernization practices.
- Evaluate observed costs relative to application architecture, requirements, and constraints.
- Consider alternative architectures ranging from light optimization to full-stack redesign.
- Rapidly implement modern architecture across the organization.
Full Cost Ownership
Empower your organization to think and operate differently.
Stop runaway costs and rising cloud bills through organizational mindset shifts, rather than excessive policies and procedures that slow innovation.
Advance cost ownership in your organization:
Present trends and progress to teams and stakeholders at regular cadences.
Provide thought leadership on cloud and tooling provider negotiations.
Assist in the creation and deployment of cloud operational policies.
Support project-level change, risk, and issue management.
Use shared learnings and iterate your approach to cost management.
