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Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)

Find and remove the waste in your AWS or Azure bill, then put the practice in place that stops it coming back.

  • Audit, then optional implementation or retainer
  • From USD 6,500
  • Updated

The short answer

Cloud cost optimisation, or FinOps, reduces cloud spend without reducing capability. LDelight audits your AWS or Azure account, identifies waste from over-provisioning, idle resources and unattached storage, then implements right-sizing, commitment purchasing and governance. The audit is fixed-fee and read-only, so you see the costed findings before committing to any implementation.

Key takeaways

  • Five-day audit produces a costed, prioritised savings list
  • Quick wins typically recover 15–20% within the first month
  • Commitment strategy built on measured baselines, not guesses
  • Showback by team and product so cost stops being invisible
Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)

Cloud bills grow for structural reasons, not careless ones. Nobody is incentivised to delete anything, over-provisioning is invisible until someone reads a utilisation graph, and instances provisioned for a launch stay at launch size for years.

The audit

Five working days against read-only access. We pull utilisation across compute, storage, database and networking, and produce a ranked list of findings with the annual saving and the implementation risk attached to each. You get the list whether or not you engage us to implement it.

What we usually find

  • Compute provisioned 3–5× above measured peak
  • Non-production environments running 24/7 for a team that works 40 hours a week
  • Unattached volumes and old snapshots nobody owns
  • Inter-AZ and NAT gateway traffic that a routing change removes
  • Storage sitting on the wrong tier for its access pattern
  • Zero or badly-shaped commitment coverage on a stable baseline

Making it stick

Savings evaporate without practice. We implement tagging enforcement, per-team budgets and anomaly alerting, and set up a monthly review with the engineers who actually provision resources — because cost is an engineering decision, not a finance one.

How we deliver

  1. 1

    Read-only access and data collection

    We take read-only access to billing and utilisation data. No changes are made during the audit.

  2. 2

    Analysis

    Utilisation against provisioning across compute, storage, database and network, plus commitment coverage and tagging quality.

  3. 3

    Findings report

    A ranked list of findings, each with annual saving, implementation effort and risk. Yours to keep regardless of what happens next.

  4. 4

    Implementation

    Quick wins first, then structural changes. Every change is reversible and applied outside business hours where relevant.

  5. 5

    Governance

    Tagging enforcement, budgets, anomaly alerting and a monthly review with the engineering team.

What you get out of it

  • A costed, ranked list of what can be saved and what it takes to do it
  • Cost visible per team and per product, not as one number
  • Anomalies caught within a day instead of at month-end
  • Engineers who understand the cost of their own decisions

Talk to an engineer about Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)

A 30-minute scoping call. No slide deck, no obligation — you leave with a written recommendation.

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What's included

  • Five-day cost audit with ranked, costed findings
  • Right-sizing recommendations from 30 days of utilisation data
  • Commitment (Savings Plan / RI / reservation) strategy
  • Non-production scheduling automation
  • Storage lifecycle policies
  • Tagging standard and enforcement policy
  • Showback dashboards by team and product
  • Monthly FinOps review cadence

Technology we use

  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • Compute Optimizer
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Azure Cost Management
  • Azure Advisor
  • Terraform
  • Kubecost
  • Grafana

FAQs about Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)

It depends entirely on how the estate was built. An environment that has never been reviewed usually has a great deal of headroom; one with an established FinOps practice has much less. The audit is fixed-fee and read-only precisely so you find out which you are before committing to anything further.

Right-sizing is done against measured utilisation with headroom retained for real peaks, and changes are applied incrementally with monitoring. If a workload genuinely needs the capacity, it keeps it — the savings come from the resources that demonstrably do not.

No. The audit is a fixed fee and implementation is priced on scope. Percentage-of-savings pricing creates an incentive to defer the structural fixes that would reduce the vendor’s own revenue, and we would rather not have that conversation with ourselves.

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