Cloud Operations & FinOps
Keep your cloud secure, reliable and affordable — with clear ownership of spend, guardrails that enforce your policies and routine operations automated.
Is this for you?
You might need this if…
The monthly cloud bill keeps growing, and nobody can explain which teams, products or customers are driving it.
Each team configures cloud resources its own way, and audits keep finding open storage, missing tags or excessive permissions.
Alerts come from many different tools, yet users are still often the first to report a problem.
The migration is done, but day-to-day operations still depend on manual work and a few key people.
What we deliver
What it covers
Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)
We make cloud spend visible per team and product, then reduce it through right-sizing, scheduling, commitment discounts and removing idle resources. We also set up the routines that keep costs in check after the first savings.
Cloud governance and policy
We define who can do what in your cloud and turn rules on security, tagging, regions and spend into automated policies. Teams keep their speed, and compliance is checked continuously instead of at audit time.
Cloud monitoring and management
We set up monitoring, alerting and dashboards across your cloud platforms, and can take over day-to-day management. You see problems before users do, with clear responsibilities when something breaks.
Cloud-native operations and automation
We automate routine operations such as patching, scaling, backups and environment provisioning with infrastructure as code. Operations become repeatable and far less dependent on individuals.
Our approach
How we work
01
Baseline
A review of your cloud estate, billing data, policies and operating routines to see where money, risk and manual effort go.
02
Optimise
Quick wins such as idle resources, oversized instances and missing discounts are addressed first, with every saving tracked.
03
Govern
Tagging, budgets, policies and roles are put in place so the improvements stick and new resources follow the rules.
04
Operate
Monitoring, automation and a regular FinOps cadence keep the environment healthy — run by your team, by us or together.
Best practices
What we bring to every engagement
Make cost a shared responsibility
In line with the FinOps Foundation framework, engineers, finance and product owners work from the same cost data and make trade-offs together.
Tag from day one
Consistent tagging and account structure are the basis of cost allocation, so we enforce them through policy rather than guidelines.
Commit only after right-sizing
Reservations and savings plans are bought once waste is removed, so you don’t lock in capacity you don’t need.
Policy as code
Guardrails are written as code with tools such as Azure Policy and AWS service control policies, so they are versioned, tested and applied consistently.
Alert on what users feel
Monitoring focuses on service health and user impact rather than every metric, which keeps alert fatigue down.
Automate the repetitive
Any task done more than a few times a month — scaling, patching, shutting down test environments — is a candidate for automation.
Outcomes
What you get
- Cost visibility per team, product and environment
- Implemented savings, recorded in a tracked savings log
- A tagging standard and automated cloud policies
- Dashboards and alerting across your cloud platforms
- Automated runbooks for routine operations
- A FinOps operating rhythm with clear roles and KPIs
AI-powered
Unleash the power of AI
We offer the possibility of using AI throughout this work: ready-to-use AI tools, or a customised version built for your organisation that can run inside your own infrastructure. In cloud operations, AI detects cost anomalies as they happen, forecasts spend and recommends right-sizing and commitment purchases. It also correlates alerts across tools to point engineers to the likely cause, so waste and incidents are caught early rather than when the invoice or the complaint arrives.
Starter offer
FinOps Quick Scan
A fixed-scope, three-week review of your cloud spend and governance that identifies concrete savings and the controls needed to keep them.
Days 1–3
Connect
Kick-off, read-only access to billing and configuration data, and interviews with engineering and finance.
Days 4–8
Analyse
Spend broken down by service, team and environment, with waste, discount coverage and policy gaps identified.
Days 9–12
Prioritise
Savings and governance improvements ranked by impact and effort, and validated with your engineers.
Days 13–15
Present
Findings, quick wins and a FinOps roadmap presented to IT and finance, with clear next steps.
You receive
- A breakdown of cloud spend by service, team and environment
- A prioritised list of savings with estimated impact and effort
- A governance gap analysis covering tagging, policies and access
- A FinOps roadmap with roles, routines and KPIs
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How quickly will we see savings?
Quick wins such as removing idle resources and right-sizing can usually be implemented within weeks of the review. Structural savings from architecture changes and commitment discounts typically follow over the next few months.
Do you need access to our cloud environments?
We usually need read-only access to billing data and resource configuration. No changes are made without your approval, and access can be removed as soon as the review is finished.
Can you run our cloud operations for us?
Yes. Through our partner network we can take on monitoring and day-to-day management, with Altechy as your single point of contact. Many clients prefer a shared model, where their own team keeps ownership and we cover specialist skills and out-of-hours support.
Which tools do you use?
We start with the native cost and governance tools in Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, which are often underused. Where a third-party platform adds real value we recommend it openly, and we build on tools you already have.
Related services
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