FinOps Review
Free Cloud Cost Audit & FinOps Maturity Score
An end-to-end FinOps review of your AWS, Azure, and GCP spend. We combine automated analysis of your billing and utilisation data with senior-engineer verification to deliver a FinOps Maturity Score, prioritised savings actions with quantified $/month impact, and a phased optimisation roadmap - using read-only access to cost APIs only.
- Analyses AWS, Azure, and GCP spend through cost APIs only - no workload access
- Senior FinOps engineer verifies every finding and quantifies $/month savings
- FinOps Maturity Score and 30/60/90 day roadmap delivered within 1-2 business days
- Read-only billing access
- No infrastructure access
- Senior-engineer verified
- NDA on request
Supported Platforms
What We Analyse Across Your Cloud Bill
Aligned with the FinOps Foundation framework - Inform, Optimise, and Operate - covering every major cost lever in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Multi-Cloud Cost Coverage
Unified analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP - covering linked accounts, subscriptions, projects, and landing zones - using AWS Cost Explorer, the Cost and Usage Report (CUR), Azure Cost Management, and GCP Billing Export with FOCUS-aligned categorisation (the FinOps Foundation's open billing standard) so spend is directly comparable across providers.
Waste & Idle Resource Detection
Surfaces unattached EBS volumes, Azure managed disks and GCP persistent disks, idle EC2 / VMs / Compute Engine, unused ELBs, Application Gateways and Cloud Load Balancers, old snapshots, orphaned NAT gateways and Cloud NAT, and unused public IPs - cross-checked against Trusted Advisor and S3 Storage Lens with quantified $/month impact for each finding.
Rightsizing & Modernisation
CPU and memory utilisation analysis with specific instance-family recommendations - combining AWS Compute Optimizer, Azure Advisor, and GCP Recommender / Active Assist signals - plus Graviton and ARM modernisation paths and quantified monthly savings per change.
Commitment Coverage Strategy
Coverage-gap analysis across Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans, SageMaker Savings Plans, Azure Reservations, and GCP standard and Flex Committed Use Discounts - with a phased adoption plan tuned to your usage stability and risk tolerance.
Tagging & Allocation Hygiene
Quantifies untagged and unallocated spend, audits tag policy coverage and consistency across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and shows showback and chargeback by team, product, and environment - the foundation of the FinOps Inform phase and any cost-aware engineering culture.
Kubernetes & Container Cost Visibility
Node-pool right-sizing for EKS, AKS, and GKE, idle namespace and orphaned PersistentVolume detection, request-vs-limit waste, and OpenCost-style attribution by namespace, workload, or label so platform spend can be allocated back to the teams that drive it.
Cost Anomaly & Trend Analysis
Detects unusual spend against a 30-day rolling baseline with seasonality awareness, correlated with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection and Azure Cost alerts, and surfaces the top services driving month-over-month growth - attributed down to account, subscription, project, or tag.
Actionable Savings Matrix
Every recommendation gets an estimated $/month saving and an effort/impact score, so leadership can prioritise quick wins from structural changes immediately - and engineering teams know exactly what to ticket next.
How It Works
Register & Grant Read-Only Billing Access
Provide a read-only IAM role, service account, or EA reader credential scoped to cost APIs only. We supply step-by-step setup guides for AWS, Azure, and GCP - no infrastructure access required.
Automated Cost Collection & Analysis
We pull 30-90 days of CUR, GCP Billing Export, and Azure Cost Management data, then run waste, rightsizing, commitment-coverage, and anomaly checks and benchmark against FinOps Foundation maturity levels.
Senior FinOps Engineer Verification
A senior FinOps practitioner reviews every finding, removes false positives (e.g. legitimately idle DR resources), validates savings estimates against your context, and adds tailored remediation steps.
Receive Your FinOps Report
Get your FinOps Maturity Score, ranked savings list with quantified $/month impact, top-5 quick wins, and a 30/60/90 day optimisation roadmap - typically within 1-2 business days.
What You Get
Your report will include the following deliverables.
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Get My FinOps ReportHow We Handle Your Billing Data
A cost audit should never expose your infrastructure. Here is exactly what we read - and what we never touch.
Read-Only Billing Access
IAM roles, service accounts, and EA reader credentials are scoped to cost APIs (Cost Explorer, Cost Management, Billing Export) and a small set of read-only utilisation metrics. We can never modify, terminate, or scale anything.
No Infrastructure Access
We never read application data, secrets, source code, databases, or production traffic. Only resource IDs, tags, utilisation metrics, and cost line items - never the contents of any workload.
Auto-Revoked After Audit
As soon as your report is delivered, every credential is revoked, the analysis sandbox is destroyed, and your cost exports are deleted. Only aggregate, anonymised findings are retained for QA.
Frequently Asked Questions
The most common questions we hear from teams running this assessment.
What permissions do you actually need on AWS, Azure, and GCP?
Read-only access to cost and utilisation APIs only. On AWS that means a role with access to Cost Explorer, the Cost and Usage Report (CUR), Compute Optimizer, and CloudWatch metrics. On Azure, an EA / billing reader plus Cost Management Reader and Reader on the subscriptions in scope. On GCP, Billing Account Viewer plus the Recommender Viewer role on the projects in scope. We provide step-by-step setup guides for each.
Do you need access to my workloads, applications, or production data?
No. We never need access to your VPCs, clusters, databases, application logs, source code, or any production traffic. The audit runs entirely against billing exports and a small set of read-only utilisation metrics (CPU, memory, network, disk). Resource IDs and tags are seen - the contents of those resources are not.
How do you estimate the monthly savings?
Each recommendation is modelled against your last 30-90 days of actual spend using on-demand, RI/SP, and committed-use pricing where applicable. A senior FinOps engineer then validates the estimate against your context - for example, removing DR or batch workloads that look idle but are intentional - so the final $/month figure is realistic, not theoretical.
Can I run this monthly or only once?
Both. The free FinOps Review is typically run as a one-off baseline, but you can also opt for monthly cadence or per-infrastructure-change reviews so the FinOps Maturity Score and savings list track real progress over time.
How is the FinOps Maturity Score calculated?
We score across the FinOps Foundation phases - Inform, Optimise, Operate - covering visibility, allocation, anomaly detection, rightsizing discipline, commitment coverage, and operating cadence. The output is a 0-100 score plus a maturity level (Crawl / Walk / Run) per capability so you can see exactly where to invest next.
How long until I receive the report?
Typical turnaround is 1-2 business days from the moment read-only access is granted. Larger estates spanning many accounts or subscriptions can take a little longer; we confirm the timeline as soon as we see the scope.
Will the audit affect performance or trigger any unexpected costs?
No. Pulling Cost Explorer, CUR, Cost Management, and Billing Export data is read-only and runs against billing endpoints, not your workloads. The only cost on your side is the standard data-export charge already configured for CUR or Billing Export - no new infrastructure is provisioned.
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