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Cloud Cost
Optimization

FinOps turns the cloud bill from a mystery into a lever. We give you visibility into every dollar, cut the waste, and put commitment and accountability in place, so you spend less without slowing engineering down.

See The Levers
Across
AWS
Azure
GCP
cloud spend · this month
Trending DownTrending Down iconTrending Down icon31% vs forecast
Cloud spend breakdownA donut chart splitting monthly cloud spend across compute, storage, data transfer, and waste.A donut chart splitting monthly cloud spend across compute, storage, data transfer, and waste.
$248k/ mo
Compute46%
Storage22%
Data transfer14%
Idle / waste18%
RecycleRecycle iconRecycle iconReclaimable waste identified: $44k / mo
$528k
annual saving
78%
coverage
18%
waste
The FinOps Lifecycle

Not A Project. A Practice.

Cost optimization is not a one-time cleanup that erodes in a quarter. We run it as a continuous loop, so savings compound instead of drifting back up.

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01

Inform

See every dollar and who spends it.

  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconTagging & cost allocation
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconDashboards & showback
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconForecasting & budgets
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02

Optimize

Cut waste and commit smartly.

  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconRightsizing & idle cleanup
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconReserved & savings plans
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconArchitecture-level savings
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03

Operate

Make savings stick, continuously.

  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconAnomaly & budget alerts
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconAccountability & KPIs
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconOngoing review cadence
Refresh CwRefresh Cw iconRefresh Cw iconRepeat every cycle, maturing from crawl to walk to run.
Where The Money Goes

A Map Of Spend, And Its Leaks.

Before we cut anything, we make spend legible. This is a real shape of a cloud bill, sized by cost, with the waste we routinely reclaim flagged in amber.

EC2 / compute46%
$114k
RDS databases14%
$34k
Idle instances7%
$18k
S3 storage9%
$22k
Old snapshots4%
$9k
Data transfer8%
$20k
Unattached EBS5%
$11k
Over-provisioned7%
$16k
needed spend reclaimable waste
RecycleRecycle iconRecycle icon≈ $54k / mo flagged as waste
The Optimization Levers

Six Ways We Cut The Bill, Safely.

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up to 40%

Rightsizing

Match instance and container sizes to real usage from metrics, not the generous guess someone made on day one.

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20–70% off-peak

Autoscaling & Scheduling

Scale with demand and power down non-production environments nights and weekends, when nobody is using them.

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up to 60% on storage

Storage Tiering

Move cold and archival data to cheaper tiers automatically with lifecycle policies, without losing access.

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up to 72%

Commitment Planning

Cover your steady-state baseline with reserved instances and savings plans, sized so you never over-commit.

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up to 90%

Spot & Preemptible

Run fault-tolerant and batch workloads on spare capacity with graceful fallback, for a fraction of on-demand.

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quick wins

Idle & Orphan Cleanup

Find and remove unattached disks, idle load balancers, and forgotten environments that quietly bill every hour.

The Discount Ladder

Pay Less For What Never Changes.

The cloud rewards commitment. We map your workloads to the right pricing model, covering the stable base with commitments and bursting on spot, so you climb the ladder without over-committing.

0%
~66%
~72%
~90%
more flexible
deeper discount

On-Demand

0%
no commitment

Spiky, unpredictable, or short-lived workloads.

Savings Plans

~66%
1–3 yr spend

A steady baseline you can commit spend to.

Reserved

~72%
1–3 yr instance

Very stable, long-running workloads.

Spot

~90%
reclaimable

Fault-tolerant, batch, and stateless jobs.

Accountability & Showback

Every Team Sees Its Own Bill.

Savings stick when the people spending see the cost. We tag and allocate spend to teams and features, set budgets, and track unit economics, so cost becomes a shared metric, not finance's problem alone.

Trending DownTrending Down iconTrending Down iconCost per active customer
$0.42$0.68Trending DownTrending Down iconTrending Down icon 38%

Unit cost, not just total spend. The number that proves efficiency as you scale.

cost allocation · this monthbudget usage
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$82k
74%on track
Data / MLTagTag iconTag iconcc-1002
$61k
96%watch
PaymentsTagTag iconTag iconcc-1003
$38k
61%on track
GrowthTagTag iconTag iconcc-1004
$27k
108%over budget
Internal toolsTagTag iconTag iconcc-1005
$12k
44%on track
Anomalies & Guardrails

Catch The Spike On Day One.

A runaway job or a wrong instance type can burn thousands before the invoice arrives. We watch spend in real time and put guardrails in the pipeline, so surprises get caught in minutes, not at month-end.

daily spend · 14d anomaly
Daily spend anomaly chartA line chart of daily cloud spend over 14 days with a highlighted spike.A line chart of daily cloud spend over 14 days with a highlighted spike.
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EC2 spend +240% on Jul 14
$6.2k above baseline · owner paged in 4 min · rightsized same day
Shield CheckShield Check iconShield Check iconbudget guardrails · active
Monthly forecast$248k / $270k
092% of budget
CheckCheck iconCheck iconAlert when spend anomaly > 20%on
CheckCheck iconCheck iconNotify the resource owner in Slackon
CheckCheck iconCheck iconBlock non-prod deploys above budgeton
CheckCheck iconCheck iconRequire cost-allocation tags to shipon
Why Plaxonic

Savings That Survive The Quarter.

Anyone can downsize a few instances. Making savings hold, without slowing teams or risking reliability, is the hard part, and it is what we do.

  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconEngineers in the loop, so we cut cost without breaking production.
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconVendor-neutral advice, with no kickbacks steering your commitments.
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconWe build a cost-aware culture, not just a one-off savings report.
  • CheckCheck iconCheck iconSavings are tracked and defended every month, so they do not erode.
ReceiptReceipt iconReceipt iconmonthly savings ledger
Waste reclaimed+$54k
Commitment savings+$31k
Rightsizing & scaling+$22k
Storage & lifecycle+$9k
Subtotal saved+$116k
FinOps engagement-$18k
Net monthly savings
$98k
6.4× ROI

Illustrative figures based on typical engagements. Your baseline and targets are modeled up front, never promised blind.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions.

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Still have questions?

Our FinOps practitioners are happy to talk specifics.

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No, that is the whole point of doing it properly. We optimize from real usage data with engineers in the loop, change one thing at a time, and keep headroom for spikes. Rightsizing and commitments are validated against your metrics and SLOs, so you spend less while performance and reliability stay exactly where they are.

See What You Could Save

Give us read-only access and a week. We will return a line-by-line breakdown of your reclaimable waste and a savings plan, with no obligation to go further.