Know what your cloud estate actually costs, and who is spending it.
A full inventory of your cloud spend, allocated to teams and products, with savings ranked by annual value against the effort to realise them.
from £12,500 · 4 weeks · fixed fee, scope set by the size of your estate
Who this is for
Organisations spending materially on cloud with no dedicated FinOps function, where cost sits with a CTO or finance director alongside a great deal else. Any sector, anywhere. If you already run Cloudability, Vantage or CloudZero with a team behind them, you probably do not need this.
How it runs
Nothing to install, nobody to second, no steering group.
Inventory
Billing exports pulled, resources inventoried across every account and provider, tagging coverage measured. Card and expense statements searched before anyone is interviewed.
Allocation
Spend attributed to teams and products. Where tagging is incomplete, allocation is reconstructed and every figure labelled high, medium or low confidence with the method shown.
Quantify
Savings identified and valued. Reserved and provisioned capacity checked against actual utilisation. Commitment coverage modelled.
Land
Unit economics for your top workloads, 90-day plan written, and a 90-minute readout with finance and technology in the same room.
What we look for
Not an exhaustive list. These are the findings that recur.
Common findings
- Reserved instances and committed capacity bought for workloads since resized, decommissioned or migrated
- Storage volumes and snapshots orphaned by instances that were terminated
- Non-production environments running around the clock for a team that works office hours
- Instances sized for a load test that production traffic never reached
- NAT gateway charges on traffic that private endpoints would carry for nothing
- Debug-level logging left on in production, billed per gigabyte ingested
- Support plans at enterprise tier on accounts with negligible spend
- Untagged spend that cannot be attributed to any team or product
What you get
Written so your own team can execute it. There is no phase two you have to buy.
What it costs you in time
Your organisation's total involvement. Four conversations and one data request.
What we need
- Read access to billing and usage exports
- One hour with your executive sponsor
- One hour with finance
- One hour with your platform or cloud lead
- One hour with an engineer close to the workloads
- Two weeks of application or usage logs
What we do not need
- Production system access
- Customer, member or personal data
- Software to buy, install or integrate
- An agent or collector in your estate
- A procurement exercise
- An internal project team or steering group
Questions
"Our managed service provider already does this."+
Keep them doing it. But a partner whose revenue scales with the size of your estate has no commercial reason to shrink it. That is not a criticism, it is how the contract works. The strongest outcome is taking our plan back to them as the work order, with savings targets written into the next contract cycle.
"The native cloud tools are free. Why pay?"+
Use them, and the report will say so. They are sufficient at most organisations at your scale. But free tools generate recommendations, and roughly half of recommendations are never actioned. The gap is not visibility, it is the process between detection and someone doing something.
"Can you guarantee savings?"+
No, and be wary of anyone who does before seeing your data. Every figure in the report traces to a resource, a utilisation profile or a commitment record your own team can open up and check.
More at the questions page.
Independent means independent. Nivaan sells no cloud, no tooling, no licences and no managed services, and takes no commission from any vendor. What that means. A recommendation to keep doing exactly what you are doing is an outcome we are paid the same for.
Start with a question, not a contract.
Twenty minutes, no deck. Bring your last cloud invoice if you have it to hand.
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