Is your cloud spend increasing without delivering proportional business value?
Due to increased usage and rising unit rates, cloud infrastructure costs are continuing to climb—a trend that is unlikely to reverse any time soon. Therefore, businesses need to ensure that every dollar spent on IT delivers maximum value.
The key to controlling these costs lies in two levers: reducing your rate or reducing your usage. However, blindly cutting usage could impact services, while reducing rates without a strategic approach may lead to long-term inefficiencies. That’s where FinOps and cloud cost optimisation come in, helping to strike the right balance between performance, efficiency, and value.
How AC3 can help
At AC3, we specialise in cloud cost optimisation, aligning business practices, fostering collaboration between engineering, finance, and leadership teams, and leveraging data-driven insights to enhance business value.
FinOps provides the framework to help businesses make informed decisions, and a certified FinOps Practitioner can guide your organisation in adopting best practices. It starts with a simple yet crucial question: “How can we make a positive change to our cloud expenditure?”
Our FinOps services include:
- Enhanced visibility: Creating transparency for those responsible for cloud spending or tracking costs.
- Proactive monitoring: Identifying and reporting cost anomalies.
- Budget & alerts: Setting up cloud budgets and real-time cost alerts.
- Usage analysis: Reviewing cloud consumption patterns to uncover optimisation opportunities.
- Cost optimisation strategies & implementation:
- Recommending reservations or savings plans.
- Rightsizing resources to match actual usage.
- Identifying and removing old, disconnected, or deprecated resources.
- Upgrading technologies to align with best practices.
- Tracking and measuring the effectiveness of cost-saving initiatives.
- Team education: Providing guidance on cloud cost management best practices.
Embedding cost optimisation into your cloud strategy
Optimising cloud costs isn’t a one-time fix—it’s an ongoing, collaborative process. Whether you're targeting specific cost reductions or taking a holistic approach, successful optimisation involves input from across the business, including engineering, finance, product owners, and management.
At AC3, we help you develop sustainable strategies for cost efficiency, reporting, and long-term optimisation. Our approach helps to embed a culture that recognises the value of cloud spend while maintaining stability, resilience, and scalability.
Unlock growth through optimisation
Effective cloud cost management does more than just cut expenses—it frees up resources to reinvest in innovation and business growth. The savings generated can help your company explore new technologies and services that were previously out of reach.
Ready to take control of your cloud costs?
AC3 has the expertise, technical specialists, and certified FinOps Practitioners to guide you on your cloud cost optimisation journey. Whether you have a clear vision or need help figuring out where to start, we’re here to help.
Get in touch with AC3 today and take the first step towards smarter cloud spending.