Optimisation
FinOps Cloud Services
Cut cloud waste, see exactly where your money goes and make spending decisions on real data, with FinOps practices set up by the founders and senior engineers who build and run cloud systems.
Talk to the foundersWhat you get with Authect's cloud FinOps services
Cloud bills have a habit of growing faster than the business behind them. Our FinOps service gives you a structured way to reduce cloud costs and use resources better, with clear reporting that shows who spends what, on which services and why.
Senior engineers work with your team to find unused resources, resize what's oversized and use cheaper pricing options where they fit, so you stop overpaying without slowing anyone down. Just as important, we help engineering, finance and leadership share one view of cloud spending, so good cost decisions become part of how you build.
What we do
Our three-stage FinOps process
We start with a clear picture of where your money goes, act on the biggest savings first and then make cost-aware engineering a habit for every new project.
Book a FinOps call with the founders and find out where your cloud budget is going.
Contact usHow FinOps helps
How our FinOps services make cloud costs manageable
FinOps is part engineering, part finance and part culture. These are the problems we help you solve.
Managing cloud investment well
As cloud use grows, so do monthly budgets. We help you spend deliberately, with optimisation strategies and FinOps practices that tie spending to the value it creates for the business.
Seeing where the money goes
We set up tagging, cost allocation and dashboards across services, regions and accounts, so every team can see its own costs and spot savings for itself.
Meeting governance requirements
We help you put cost policies, budgets, approval rules and reporting in place that satisfy finance and compliance, without blocking engineers from doing their work.
Rightsizing your infrastructure
Drawing on cloud architecture and operations experience, we find the right size and type for each resource, so you pay for the capacity you use, not the capacity you guessed you'd need.
Keeping systems current while controlling cost
Newer instance types, managed services and storage tiers are often cheaper as well as better. We keep your infrastructure up to date and scaling on demand, with costs watched at every step.
Aligning the cloud with changing priorities
When your business plans change, your cloud should follow. We help you match infrastructure and commitments to your short- and long-term goals, so you're never locked into capacity you no longer need.
Tools
Cloud cost tools we work with
We start with the native tools your cloud provider already offers, then add reporting your finance team can use. Nothing here locks you in: the dashboards and rules are yours.
AWS Cost Explorer
Spending trends and breakdowns by service, account and tag.
AWS Budgets
Budgets and alerts that warn teams before spending runs over.
AWS Cost and Usage Reports
Detailed billing data for precise allocation and analysis.
AWS Compute Optimizer
Rightsizing recommendations based on actual usage.
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
Early warnings when spending suddenly changes.
Azure Cost Management and Advisor
Cost analysis, budgets and optimisation advice for Azure.
Azure Reservations
Lower prices in exchange for committed, steady usage.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Reuse of existing Windows Server and SQL Server licences in Azure.
Google Cloud Billing reports
Billing exports and reports for Google Cloud spending.
Kubernetes cost allocation
Costs split by cluster, namespace and workload with tools such as OpenCost.
Power BI reports
Cost dashboards for finance and leadership, combining every cloud.
Infrastructure as code
Cost checks and tagging rules built into Terraform reviews.
Pricing options
Choosing the right way to pay for the cloud
A large part of every FinOps engagement is matching each workload to the right pricing option. Here's how the main options compare, and how we use them.
| On-demand | Savings plans and reservations | Spot and preemptible capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How it works | Pay by the second or hour for what you run, with no commitment. | Commit to a level of usage for a fixed term in return for a lower price. | Use the provider's spare capacity at a deep discount, which can be reclaimed at short notice. |
| Best for | New, unpredictable or short-lived workloads. | Steady, predictable workloads such as production databases and core services. | Batch jobs, data processing, CI runners and workloads that can restart safely. |
| Trade-off | The most flexible, but the highest price. | Cheaper, but you pay for the commitment even if usage drops. | The cheapest, but interruptions have to be designed for. |
| How we use it | As the default while we learn how a workload behaves. | Sized carefully from real usage data, covering the stable baseline only. | With automatic fallback, so an interruption slows work down instead of stopping it. |
Why Authect
Why manage cloud costs with Authect
- 01
Engineers who build what they optimise
We design and run cloud systems every day, so our savings come from real architectural changes, not just a spreadsheet of discounts.
- 02
Savings that don't cost reliability
Every change is reviewed by a senior engineer and rolled out carefully, so a cheaper setup never comes at the price of an outage.
- 03
No lock-in, no hidden agenda
Dashboards, rules and infrastructure code are yours from day one. We're not paid by any cloud provider, so our only incentive is your bill.
FAQs
Cloud FinOps FAQs
How does FinOps differ from traditional IT financial management?
Traditional IT finance plans spending in yearly budgets for hardware and licences. FinOps is built for the cloud, where costs change daily with usage. It brings engineering, finance and business teams together around shared, near real-time cost data, so the people who create costs can see and control them.
FinOps or DevOps: what's the difference?
DevOps brings development and operations together to ship software faster and more reliably. FinOps brings engineering and finance together to spend on the cloud wisely. They complement each other: the automation and infrastructure as code that DevOps introduces make many FinOps practices, such as tagging and scheduling, much easier.
What are the three phases of FinOps?
Inform, optimise and operate. Inform means making costs visible and allocating them to teams and products. Optimise means acting on the opportunities, such as rightsizing and better pricing options. Operate means building the habits, policies and reviews that keep costs under control as you grow. Our process follows the same cycle.
What is cloud cost optimisation and how does it benefit my business?
It's the ongoing work of matching your cloud resources and pricing to what you actually need. Done well, it lowers your bill, makes costs predictable and frees budget for new work, without hurting performance or reliability.
What are the most effective cloud cost optimisation strategies?
The biggest wins usually come from removing unused resources, rightsizing oversized ones, switching off non-production environments out of hours, using savings plans or reservations for steady workloads, using spot capacity for flexible jobs and choosing cheaper storage tiers for data you rarely touch. Tagging and budgets keep those gains from slipping.
Will optimising costs affect our system's performance?
It shouldn't, and we make sure it doesn't. Every change is based on real usage data, reviewed by a senior engineer and rolled out gradually with monitoring in place, so we can confirm performance holds before moving on.