Cost Optimisation

Cloud costs should reflect what you actually need, not simply what has accumulated over time.

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Cost Optimisation

Optimise More Than Spend

Cloud costs have a habit of growing. The question is whether you’re still getting what you need.

 

You may be paying for resources you no longer need, infrastructure that no longer fits your requirements, or cloud services that aren’t being used as efficiently as they could be.

 

That’s why Cost Optimisation is one of five core principles in our approach to managed cloud. We consider cost alongside the security, availability, resilience and support your business-critical systems need.

The Problem

Where cloud costs get out of control

Our Approach

How we optimise around what you need

  • You're paying for resources you're not fully using
  • We review your resource usage and tune it accordingly
  • It isn't always clear what you're paying for or why costs increase
  • We make cloud spend easier to understand and identify what's driving it
  • Your current infrastructure may no longer be the right fit
  • We let you know if there's a better way to run what you need
  • Costs increase as usage and requirements change
  • We review and optimise as your requirements change

What Good Looks Like

Effective cost optimisation isn't simply about spending less. It's about making sure your infrastructure spend reflects what you actually need.

Visibility

Understand where infrastructure spend is going, what’s driving it and where opportunities to improve value may exist.

Resources

Review resource usage against actual requirements, identifying where changes could reduce unnecessary spend without compromising what you need.

Efficiency

Use infrastructure and cloud services more efficiently, reducing unnecessary spend without compromising what you need.

Infrastructure

Review whether your current infrastructure is still the right fit as your applications, usage and business requirements change.

FinOps

Bring technical and financial considerations together to support better-informed decisions about your cloud infrastructure, usage and spend.

Ongoing Optimisation

Continually review infrastructure, usage and costs to identify opportunities for optimisation as your business requirements change.

The Right Infrastructure at the Best Possible Cost

The cheapest infrastructure isn’t always the right infrastructure.

 

Sometimes optimisation means adjusting the resources you already have. Other times, it means rethinking how your infrastructure is designed or where it runs.

 

We look at what your business-critical systems need from security, availability, performance and resilience before deciding where costs can be optimised.

 

The right infrastructure shouldn’t cost more than it needs to.

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