FinOps on Azure

NashTech is a global technology, consulting and outsourcing company. Services include digital strategy consulting, delivering software solutions and business process solutions. Global operations in the UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and India enable us to go where our clients are, ensuring they have the technology services they need to support strategic business growth.

Our FinOps on Azure offers:

Cloud Cost Visibility & Allocation:

• Provide real-time cost data segmented by business unit, team, environment, application, etc.
• The cost of cloud resources is reported to each team or department.
• Examples
• Use AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or GCP Billing Reports.
• Tag-based allocation for environments (Project=AppX, Env=Prod)

Budgeting & Forecasting:

• Set budgets and track spend against forecasts.
• Predict future spend using AI/ML or trend analysis.
• Examples
• Define monthly budget for each product line.
• Use anomaly detection (e.g., AWS Budgets with alerts).

Cost Optimisation:

• Identify and reduce waste (e.g., idle resources, overprovisioned instances).
• Leverage Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, or Spot Instances..
• Examples
• Auto-scaling based on usage.
• Schedule dev/test environments to shut down after hours.

Governance & Policy Enforcement

• Define policies for resource provisioning, tagging, and budget controls.
• Enforce best practices via guardrails.
• Examples
• Tag enforcement using AWS Config Rules.
• Policy-as-Code using Open Policy Agent (OPA), Kyverno or Azure Policy.

Multi-Cloud Cost Management:

• Aggregate, analyse, and govern cloud cost across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Examples
• Central dashboard for AWS and Azure workloads
• Apply consistent tagging policy across all platforms

Anomaly Detection & Alerting:

• Automatically detect unusual spikes in cloud usage or cost and alert relevant teams in real time
• Examples
• Integrate anomaly detection in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection or Azure Advisor.
• Alert if a dev environment suddenly incurs 5x its typical cost.

Automation & Tooling:

• Automate tagging, cleanup of unused resources, and cost reporting.
• Integrate FinOps tooling into CI/CD and IAC pipelines..
• Examples
• Use IaC (Terraform , Crossplane or Pulumi..) to enforce cost tags..
• Use Infracost, Terratag, Checkov .. to scan IaC templates for cost impact before merge.

Machine Learning-Driven Recommendations

• Use AI/ML models to generate optimisation strategies (resize, shutdown, RI purchase) based on usage patterns.
• Examples
• Auto-recommend converting on-demand instances into Savings Plans.
• Predict monthly spend by workload pattern.