Managed Services · Cloud FinOps
Most organisations have a cloud cost gap. Few can see it.
Cloud has turned technology spending from a planned purchase into a running meter that anyone with access can turn up. We help you find the gap between what you spend and what you need, close it, and keep it closed.
Across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, on their own or together.
Every cloud you use
3 separate bills
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
With FinOps
One clear view of your cloud spend
- ✓Visible
- ✓Owned
- ✓Under control
Mind the gap
The cloud cost gap is the difference between what your organisation spends on cloud and what it actually needs to spend.
It rarely appears overnight. It grows quietly, a few forgotten resources here and an oversized server there, until the bill is rising faster than the value it delivers and nobody can quite explain why.
FinOps is how you find that gap, close it, and stop it opening up again.
Monthly cloud spend
Gap wideningWhy the gap exists
Cloud breaks the way IT spending used to be controlled.
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The bill is only the tip
An uncontrolled cloud bill costs more than the money on the invoice.
- Wasted moneyPaying for capacity nobody is using.
- Budget surprisesOverruns found after the money has already gone.
- Squeezed marginsFor digital services, cloud is a direct cost of sale.
- Lost investmentEvery pound wasted is a pound not spent on growth.
- Poor decisionsWithout knowing what each product, team or customer costs, you cannot price or prioritise properly.
- And the gap keeps growing
Why a one-off review is not enough
A cost review saves money once. Then the gap opens up again, because new services and projects are added all the time, usage grows with the business, providers keep changing their prices and products, and teams change and old habits return.
FinOps is not a project. It is an ongoing way of working that keeps cloud costs in line with the value they deliver.
How we close the gap, and keep it closed
FinOps runs as a continuous cycle: Inform, Optimise, Operate. Our service follows it, and you can start with one stage or all three.
Continuous cycle
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What we look at
- Billing and usage visibility
- Cost allocation and tagging
- Rightsizing over-provisioned resources
- Idle and forgotten resources
- Reserved capacity, savings plans and commitment discounts
- Storage, backup and data transfer costs
- Software licensing in the cloud
- Budgets, forecasting and alerts
Why Verity Digital?
- Time-served practitioners, not junior analysts
- We work inside your finance and cloud teams
- We implement the recommendations, not just write them
- Independent advice, free from vendor bias
- AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, on their own or together
- Ongoing managed service to keep savings in place
Start with a conversation
How big is your cloud cost gap?
Tell us a little about your cloud estate. We will talk you through where the gap usually hides, what an assessment would look like for you, and where we would expect to find savings first. No obligation, and no jargon.
- Which clouds and services you use
- Roughly what you spend each month
- Who looks after the bill today
- What is worrying you about it