AI & Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps

Manage your cloud operations with clear cost control, from landing zone and IaC through to per-team showback and steady-state optimisation.

For teams whose cloud bill has outgrown the spreadsheet meant to explain it, and whose landing zone is one person's memory.

AWS Azure GCP Terraform Kubernetes FinOps
Engagement overview

Manage your cloud operations with clear cost control, from landing zone and IaC through to per-team showback and steady-state optimisation.

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Our Approach

Cloud Foundations Before Cloud Optimisation

Most cloud cost problems started long before the invoice did. We fix the structure first, so the savings are not spent again next quarter.

  • 01

    Landing Zone Before Workloads

    Accounts, identity, network boundaries and guardrails come first, so teams build inside a structure that already answers the audit questions.

    • Multi-account structure with identity and guardrails as policy
    • Guardrails applied by default to every new account
  • 02

    Infrastructure as Source, Not State

    Every environment is rebuilt from versioned code, and drift is caught before it becomes an incident someone explains at 2am.

    • Reviewed modules for the resources you deploy most
    • Drift detection and plan output in the same pull request
  • 03

    A Bill You Can Explain

    Tagging, allocation and showback turn a total into a line item with a cause and an owner, so the conversation is about the change, not the number.

    • Cost attributed to the team that caused the change
    • Budget and variance alerts before the month closes
  • 04

    Paved Roads, Not Blank Pages

    A curated platform layer means a developer starts on a known-good path, and the choices that should be made once are made once.

    • One supported path to a production deployment
    • Self-service environments inside the guardrails
  • Overview

    What Cloud and FinOps Delivery Covers

    The four areas we build and run, from the first account to the optimisation cycle.

    Landing Zone & Cloud Foundation

    Multi-account structure, identity, guardrails and guardrail policies that make the right thing the easy thing from day one.

    Infrastructure as Code

    Terraform and cloud-native modules with review, drift detection and environments that can be recreated from source.

    Cost Visibility & Optimisation

    Tagging, allocation and per-team showback so a bill increase has a cause you can name and an owner who can act on it.

    Kubernetes & Container Platform

    Cluster autoscaling, workload scheduling and a paved-road platform that removes the choices a developer should not have to make.

    Services

    Cloud and FinOps Services Include

    Modular capabilities you can adopt as a full foundation or phase in by priority.

    01

    Landing Zone Build

    Multi-account structure, identity, network segmentation and guardrail policies applied as code, not convention.

    Foundation
    02

    Terraform Module Library

    Reviewed, versioned modules for the resources you deploy most, with drift detection in the same pull request.

    IaC
    03

    Kubernetes Platform

    Cluster autoscaling, workload scheduling, ingress and a paved road that keeps platform choices out of app teams.

    Containers
    04

    Cost Allocation & Showback

    Tagging policy, allocation model and per-team showback so a bill increase has a named cause and an owner.

    FinOps
    05

    Rightsizing & Commitments

    Instance, storage and reserved-capacity analysis against measured usage, with the savings tracked to a line item.

    Optimisation
    06

    Budgets, Alerts & Anomalies

    Budgets, variance alerts and anomaly detection that flag a runaway resource before it reaches the invoice.

    Controls
    07

    Observability & SLO Plumbing

    Metrics, logs, traces and dashboards wired once, so capacity and reliability are argued with data.

    Observability
    08

    Platform Engineering

    Self-service environments, golden paths and paved roads that make the safe option the fastest one to take.

    Platform
    Outcomes

    What FinOps Engagements Commit To

    The commitments we hold ourselves to on cost, allocation and predictability.

    100%

    Cloud spend mapped to a named team or service

    One

    Source of truth for cost, ownership and trends

    Per team

    Showback reports your teams can read without help

    Weekly

    Trend and variance reporting from week one

    Deliverables

    What You Get

    Artifacts your platform, engineering and finance owners can run without us.

    Landing Zone as Code

    Accounts, identity, guardrails and modules in source control.

    Module Library & Standards

    Reviewed patterns and the rules for when to use them.

    Cost Dashboard

    Spend by team, service, environment and month.

    Tagging & Allocation Policy

    Which tags are required and how spend is split.

    Optimisation Backlog

    Ranked savings with effort, risk and owner.

    Operations Runbook

    Restore, scale, budget and escalation steps.

    Process

    How We Deliver

    Six steps from a foundation review to a bill your teams can explain.

    1. 01

      Cloud Foundation Review

      Accounts, usage and spend reviewed for structure and waste.

    2. 02

      Landing Zone Design

      Target structure, identity and guardrails agreed and documented.

    3. 03

      IaC & Platform Build

      Modules, pipelines and paved roads built in version control.

    4. 04

      Cost Baseline & Showback

      Tagging, allocation and the first showback report issued.

    5. 05

      Optimisation Cycle

      Rightsizing and commitments run against measured usage.

    6. 06

      Operate & Improve

      Budgets, reviews and backlog refreshed every cycle.

    Engagement Models

    Ways to Work With Us

    Pick the model that matches your scope, timeline and internal capacity.

    Dedicated Team

    For multi-quarter cloud transformation programs.

    • Engineers embedded on your platform roadmap
    • Shared ceremonies and infrastructure reviews
    • Scale the team up or down
    Hire a Team

    Advisory & Hourly

    Expert help exactly when you need it.

    • Architecture and cost reviews
    • Showback and allocation design
    • Pay only for the hours you use
    Book Advisory
    Fit Check

    Is This Service Right for You?

    A quick check on whether a cloud and FinOps engagement makes sense right now.

    A good fit if

    • You run on AWS, Azure or GCP and want a repeatable structure
    • Your cloud bill has grown and nobody can explain the increase
    • Infrastructure is still created by hand in the console
    • You want every team to see the spend it causes

    The wrong start if

    • You have a handful of workloads and no growth planned
    • Nobody owns the cloud environment day to day
    • You are looking for hosting quotes rather than engineering
    FAQs

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Quick answers on scope, cost and timelines. Cannot find yours? Ask our team directly.

    Still have a question?

    Ask an engineer, not a call centre. You get a straight answer within one business day.

    Ask our team

    Yes. We have delivered foundations on all three, and we keep the platform concepts consistent so your engineers learn one way of working rather than three. We work in whichever cloud holds your systems today, and we will tell you plainly if a workload belongs somewhere else.

    It gives you a bill that can be explained line by line and charged back to the team that caused the spend. That means a cost increase is a conversation about a decision, not an argument with an invoice, and it means the optimisation work is prioritised by what it actually returns.

    No. We work around what you already run, bring it under source control and improve it in place where that is safer. Anything we cannot explain from code we document, so your engineers inherit an estate they can reason about rather than inherit a mystery.

    Modules, pipelines and policy live in your repositories and your cloud accounts, and the work is done through documented provider interfaces rather than a proprietary wrapper. If you later bring another team in, they can operate what we built without us in the room.

    A foundation review usually runs within the first two weeks and needs read access, current billing data and a session with the teams that own spend. The first written output is a cost and structure assessment, which is often enough to decide the next step without committing to a build.

    You keep the code, the dashboards, the allocation model and the runbook, and your teams keep the ability to run them. We can stay on as a monthly FinOps cycle, or step back once the backlog, the reporting and the review rhythm are running on their own.

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