Cloud, Security & Operations
Cloud Cost Optimization
Reducing cloud spend without reducing capability: rightsizing, commitment discounts, scheduling, storage tiering and FinOps practices that make teams accountable for what they run.
Capability overview
What cloud cost optimization involves
Cloud bills grow quietly: oversized instances chosen for safety, development environments running all weekend, snapshots nobody deletes and data transfer charges nobody predicted. Cost optimisation finds these savings and puts practices in place so the bill does not creep back up.
Our approach follows the FinOps Framework: first make costs visible by team and product through tagging and allocation, then optimise through rightsizing and commitment discounts such as AWS Savings Plans or Azure reservations, and finally operate with budgets, anomaly alerts and regular reviews.
What is included
Where savings come from
Rightsizing
Compute, database and container resources resized from measured utilisation, with performance checked after each change.
Commitment planning
Savings Plans, reserved instances or committed use discounts purchased against stable baseline usage, avoiding over-commitment.
Waste removal
Idle resources, unattached volumes, old snapshots and unused IP addresses identified and removed with owner sign-off.
Architecture savings
Storage lifecycle tiers, spot or preemptible capacity for suitable workloads, and reduced cross-zone and internet data transfer.
How we work
How we deliver cloud cost optimization
Cost visibility
Billing data exported and allocated to teams and products, with untagged spend reduced over time.
Savings analysis
Opportunities quantified, ranked by value and risk and shared with resource owners.
Quick wins
Low-risk savings such as deleting orphaned resources and shutting down non-production environments outside working hours applied first.
Structural changes
Rightsizing, commitments and architecture changes planned with application teams to avoid performance impact.
FinOps cadence
Monthly cost reviews, budgets and anomaly alerts established so owners see their spend, and any unexpected spike, before finance does.
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Questions & answers
Questions about Cloud Cost Optimization
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Ask a questionIt varies widely with how the estate was built. Environments that have never been optimised often have substantial waste. We quantify savings from your own billing data during the assessment rather than quoting a generic percentage.
It should not. Rightsizing is based on measured utilisation with headroom, applied gradually and monitored, and production changes follow your change control process.
Yes. Container costs are allocated by namespace or team, resource requests are tuned to actual use, and node pools are adjusted for better packing and spot capacity.
The assessment is a fixed fee. Ongoing FinOps support is a monthly retainer. Fees are not tied to a percentage of savings, which avoids incentives to cut too aggressively.
Next step
Discuss cloud cost optimization with Acmez
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