Whether you’re at the adoption, transformation, or on-going operation phase of your cloud journey, you will know the benefits of cloud far outweigh the challenges it creates – but only if these challenges are managed well.

This is where the practise of FinOps provides new value to your organisation, particularly if you’re suffering from certain symptoms.

The symptoms

  • You’re experiencing cloud cost overruns and your cloud costs are often unpredictable
  • Unexplained cloud costs exist and are unresolved without additional analysis
  • There’s a lack of clarity around cloud cost accountabilities, including third party service providers
  • Adherence to good cloud cost management and policies is not visible or measured
  • Negative impacts/risks for the organisation are created by policy breaches or failures that are detected late or remain undetected
  • Visibility of your cloud estate’s health is incomplete or inconsistent.

The cure

GovFinOps will show you cost and cloud usage efficiency levels, and provide actionable opportunities to improve. You can see where you’re paying too much and where you can make improvements to your cloud configuration.

How this service is used is up to you. You may decide to carry out GovFinOps on-demand as needed, on a regular basis (6 monthly or annually), or you may decide to use the service as an on-going function of your cloud management. And you have the freedom to decide what and how to address the actionable insights provided by the GovFinOps service.

The long-term health benefits for your business

In addition to the time you’ll save manually poring through your cloud environment to find fixes, you and your team will also enjoy reduced cloud spend, improved cost predictability, faster optimisation, and derisked skills retention.