Unused resources remain
Test environments, disks, snapshots, and IP addresses continue to incur charges after use has ended.
Turn Cloud Spending Data into Action
We analyze AWS and Microsoft Azure billing and usage to review unused resources, oversized configurations, and purchasing options. Beyond identifying opportunities, we assess the business impact and support implementation and continuous improvement.
AWSAnalyze billing and resources
Microsoft AzureManage across platforms using consistent criteria
Monthly ReviewReview changes, budgets, and improvements
Analysis to ActionSupport from recommendations to implementation
COMMON CHALLENGES
Growing usage is not the only reason your cloud bill rises.
Cloud environments change quickly. As environments, owners, and business requirements change, the original configuration may no longer match actual use. FinOps goes beyond cost reduction by enabling technology, business, and finance teams to make decisions from consistent data.
Sizing assumptions are outdated
Configurations selected during migration or deployment no longer match current workloads or usage hours.
Purchasing options are hard to reassess
Teams cannot evaluate the balance between pay-as-you-go pricing and discount commitments while accounting for future change risks.
Billing and technology are disconnected
Finance understands the costs and IT understands the configuration, but the information needed for joint decisions is not consolidated.
OUR APPROACH
Start with low-risk cleanup and optimize in stages.
Clean up unused resources: Confirm ownership and usage, then stop or delete unneeded environments, disks, snapshots, and other resources.
Review sizing and operating hours: Measure performance and usage hours, then plan rightsizing and shutdown periods for development and test environments.
Optimize purchasing options: Identify stable usage and evaluate the duration, coverage, utilization, and change risks of discount commitments.
SERVICE SCOPE
From billing visibility to changes and ongoing improvement.
We tailor the scope to your current team, from an initial assessment or help implementing identified opportunities to monthly FinOps operations.
Billing and usage visibility
Organize spending and changes by account, department, environment, service, and tag.
Unused resource cleanup
Identify resources left running, unattached resources, and long-unused resources, then confirm ownership and impact.
Sizing and operating hours
Review performance and usage hours to plan configuration changes, shutdown schedules, and operating conditions.
Purchasing review
Consider discount commitment coverage and duration based on usage stability and future plans.
Tags, budgets, and alerts
Clarify ownership and cost responsibility, and enable early detection of budget overruns and spending spikes.
Monthly reviews and improvement
Share spending changes, implementation results, new opportunities, budget risks, and next actions.
IMPLEMENTATION
Turn analysis into an actionable improvement plan.
Define ownership, business impact, timing, rollback, and verification methods, as well as potential savings.
Data collection and visibility
Review billing, usage, configurations, tags, budgets, and contracts.
Candidate identification and prioritization
Classify opportunities based on impact, risk, implementation difficulty, and future plans.
Impact assessment and implementation
Confirm ownership and impact, then stop, delete, or modify resources and review purchasing options after approval.
Measurement and adoption
Compare before and after results and embed improvements in tags, budgets, alerts, and monthly reviews.
Why Advange
One team evaluates costs and cloud configurations.
Common standards for AWS and Azure
Review each cloud billing model and establish common categories, priorities, and review methods.
Assess infrastructure impacts
Consider performance, availability, backups, dependencies, and future changes alongside costs.
Support through implementation
Manage ownership confirmation, approval, execution, rollback, and result verification, and connect them to monthly improvements.
AWSAnalyze billing and technology
AzureCross-environment spending management
FinOpsConnect technology, business, and finance
MonthlyOngoing review and improvement
FAQ
Answers to common questions about cloud cost optimization and FinOps support.
We support AWS and Microsoft Azure. We organize billing data, usage, and resource configurations using a common perspective to review spending and improvement opportunities across multiple clouds.
Learn more→Yes. We go beyond identifying opportunities to review performance, availability, dependencies, and business impact, then support configuration changes for approved measures and verify the results.
We analyze billing, utilization, operating hours, resource configurations, tags, and other data to identify and prioritize resources left running, long-unused resources, and sizing that does not match current workloads.
Yes. We compare pay-as-you-go pricing with discount commitments based on current utilization, planned configuration changes, and business forecasts, while avoiding commitments that exceed expected demand.
Yes. Beyond initial assessments and individual measures, we can provide ongoing support for budget, alert, tag, and cost accountability rules, monthly reviews, results measurement, and identification of new improvement opportunities.
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Can You Explain Last Month's Cloud Bill?
Developing the Right Solution Together
Tell us about your current cloud platforms, spending levels, management units, and cost concerns.
We will define the scope of visibility you need and the approach to optimization.