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Cloud cost optimisation

Cut cloud spend without cutting performance

Cloud bills grow for predictable reasons: resources sized for a launch and never revisited, environments left running overnight, storage that is never tidied, data transfer nobody modelled, and on-demand pricing for workloads that have run steadily for two years. None of it is dramatic. All of it compounds.

Orbit3's cloud optimisation service finds the waste, removes it, and then puts the tagging, budgets, alerts and automation in place so the savings last. We apply FinOps practice at a scale that suits a growing business: enough discipline to own the number, without a committee. For clients on our managed service, cost review is part of every month.

Spend analysisWhere the money goes by service, team, environment and workload.
Right-sizing and clean-upCompute, databases, storage and idle resources aligned to real demand.
Commitment planningReserved capacity and savings plans sized on actual usage, not optimism.
Governance that lastsTagging, budgets, anomaly alerts and policy checks in the delivery pipeline.

At a glance

Starts withYour last three bills

First outputRanked savings plan

LeversRight-size · Schedule · Commit · Tidy

AfterwardsBudgets, alerts, monthly review

Who it's for

For companies whose bill grew faster than their revenue

Optimisation pays off fastest where nobody has owned the bill. That describes most growing companies at some point.

Leadership asking why the bill doubled

The number has become a board question and the honest answer is 'we're not sure'. You need a breakdown and a plan.

Product teams scaling infrastructure

Usage is growing, which is good, but unit costs are growing with it, which is not. You want margin to improve as you scale.

Estates that were migrated and never revisited

The lift-and-shift sized everything like the old servers. Two years on, the cloud is doing the same work at three times the price.

What's included

Savings that survive next quarter

A one-off cost review saves money once. We combine the analysis with the governance and automation that stop waste creeping back.

Cost and usage analysisBilling data broken down by service, account, environment and workload, with the trends and anomalies explained in plain English.
Tagging and cost allocationA tagging standard and enforcement so every pound can be attributed to a team, product or customer.
Right-sizingCompute instances, containers, databases and storage tiers matched to observed utilisation, with the evidence for each change.
Scheduling and idle clean-upNon-production environments shut down out of hours; orphaned volumes, snapshots, load balancers and addresses removed.
Commitment and discount planningReserved instances, savings plans and committed-use discounts sized to your stable baseline, with the break-even shown.
Architecture recommendationsWhere a design change, such as serverless, spot capacity or a different storage class, would change the cost curve rather than trim it.
Budgets, alerts and anomaly detectionGuardrails so an unexpected increase is a message on the day, not a surprise on the invoice.
Policy in the pipelineCost checks and tagging rules enforced in infrastructure code and CI, so waste is caught before it is deployed.
Monthly reviewSpend against forecast, savings realised, new recommendations and a short conversation about what to do next.

How we deliver it

Analyse, right-size, sustain

We start with the bill, not a tool. The first pass usually finds the obvious waste; the discipline afterwards is what keeps the number down.

Analyse

We start with your billing data and utilisation metrics to surface where spend goes and where the waste hides, and produce a savings plan ranked by value and effort.

Right-size

We correct the inefficiencies: resizing, scheduling, tidying and committing, each change evidenced and reversible.

Sustain

We bake governance into your pipeline and processes, so savings last and new waste is caught early.

Platforms

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Pricing models, commitment discounts and cost tooling differ by cloud. We know where the savings hide on each one.

Amazon Web Services

Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports, Compute Optimizer, Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, S3 storage classes and lifecycle policies, Budgets and Cost Anomaly Detection.

Microsoft Azure

Cost Management and Advisor, Reservations and Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows and SQL licensing, storage tiering and budget alerts.

Google Cloud

Billing exports to BigQuery, Recommender, committed-use discounts, sustained-use discounts, storage classes and budget alerts.

Questions we get asked

Frequently asked questions

How much can we realistically save?

It depends entirely on how the environment was built and how long since anyone reviewed it. Estates that have never been optimised usually have significant waste; well-run ones less. The analysis phase puts a specific, evidenced number on it for your environment before you commit to any changes.

Will optimisation slow anything down?

Not if it is done properly. Right-sizing is based on observed utilisation with headroom, changes are made one at a time with monitoring in place, and every change is reversible. Performance is a constraint, not a casualty.

Should we buy reserved capacity?

Only for the part of your usage that is genuinely stable, and only once the environment has been right-sized, otherwise you lock in the waste. We size commitments on actual usage history and show the break-even before you buy.

Do we need a FinOps tool?

Usually not to start. The cloud providers' native cost tools cover most needs for a growing business. We recommend third-party tooling only when the estate is large or multi-cloud enough to justify it.

How do you charge for this?

As a scoped engagement for the analysis and remediation, and as part of the monthly fee for managed-service clients. We are transparent about the savings we expect before you commit.

How do we stop the bill creeping back up?

Tagging, budgets, anomaly alerts and cost checks in the delivery pipeline, plus a monthly review. Waste creeps back when nobody is looking; the point of the governance is that someone always is.

Related services

Often combined with this

Cost, performance and reliability pull on each other. These services keep the balance once the savings are in.

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