What is Cloud FinOps?

Cloud FinOps is a framework for managing cloud costs, facilitating financial accountability, and increasing operational alignment. Cloud FinOps solves the business pain of overpaying for cloud resources, unpredictable bills that don’t match budget and forecast, and inability to show chargeback/showbacks to business units or projects.

Benefits for Finance Teams

Regain the control and predictability that was lost when infrastructure shifted to a variable cost model. Get accurate forecasts and data to drive cost-conscious decision-making and accountability.

Benefits for Technology Teams

Get back to tackling your backlog and driving business value. Rest assured that your Exstratus Cloud FinOps Lead will guard against surprise bills and act as an intermediary between you and the Finance team.

Exstratus “speaks” both IT and Finance — making us uniquely positioned to align your teams so you can get back the task at hand.

Scott Chamberlain
CFO, Civitas Learning

“Our AWS costs were a black hole before Exstratus—we couldn’t predict what the bill would be from one month to the next, which is the kind of thing that keeps a CFO up at night. Exstratus paid for itself and much more.”

The Exstratus Cloud FinOps Solution

Our team embeds within your organization to become your internal FinOps team. We bring the people, processes, and platform necessary to immediately put a disciplined FinOps practice into place.

Optimize and audit for continuous cost efficiency

  • Detailed auditing of infrastructure for waste
  • Continuous right-sizing balancing cost & delivery
  • Anomaly detection (“catch and kill”)
  • Commitments management (RIs/SPs/CUDs)
  • Negotiation against cloud vendors (PPAs/EDPs/EAs)

Architect and solve for improved unit economics

  • Architectural changes for cost scaling improvements
  • Architectural planning for new development
  • Standardization of tools that drive cost-conscious behaviors
  • Strategic decision inputs for migrations and new builds

Allocate and illuminate costs for accountability

  • Reporting on domain-relevant dimensions
  • Cost attribution models, incl. chargeback & showback
  • Scorecards, KPI’s, progress against goals
  • Measurement of unit economics (cost/unit, margin/unit)

Budget and forecast to drive predictability

  • Budgets and real-time variances
  • Reliable forecasts with advanced models of variable cost drivers
  • What-if scenarios (customer growth, new revenue streams, rearchitecture)
  • Projecting unit economics over 1/2/4 years

Our Customers

We’ve helped some of the best operators in the world.

They are ambitious, fast-growing companies who spend over $1M year on cloud computing services.

Truong-An Thai
Director of Engineering, FloSports

“It was incredible what Exstratus was able to accomplish in such a short time. The ROI was massive and immediate. I wish every engineering project could go like this.”

Data-driven cloud engineers you can trust

As cloud native engineers, we deeply understand all three public cloud providers. Let us get costs under control and align your Technology and Finance teams so everyone can get back to the work they love.

Here are just a handful of the cloud services we’ve streamlined:

  • EC2

  • EBS

  • Autoscaling

  • ECS

  • ELB

  • Elastic Beanstalk

  • Lambda

  • S3 & Glacier

  • RDS

  • ElastiCache

  • DynamoDB

  • EMR

  • CloudWatch

  • CloudFormation

  • CloudTrail

  • Config

  • OpsWorks

  • IAM

Ready to Start Your Cloud FinOps Journey?

The Exstratus team and platform are well-versed in the intricacies of all of the major public cloud providers. We “speak” both Tech and Finance — making us uniquely positioned to align your Technology and Finance teams so you can get back the task at hand.

To start, we offer every client a completely free analysis of their environment before we submit a customized statement of work.

You grant us read-only access to your account* for just 1 week. We’ll then present you with a high-confidence estimate of our services and a program timeline.

*protected under your standard NDA
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#### Align Finance and Technology

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#### No More Cloud Bill Surprises

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#### Create a Cost Conscious Culture