SixPivot FinOps Consulting – Cloud Cost Health Check

Business Challenge: Organisations struggle with cloud financial management challenges that erode value and create governance gaps: • Unpredictable cloud costs – Spending exceeding budgets with limited visibility into drivers • Wasted resources – Under-utilised and over-provisioned cloud resources draining budgets • Cross-team friction – Engineering, finance, and technology teams are lacking collaboration on spending decisions • Poor visibility – Inability to track costs by project, team, or business unit • Missed optimisation opportunities – Failure to leverage reserved instances, rightsizing, and other cost-saving strategies • Lack of financial governance – No framework for data-driven cloud spending decisions • Environmental impact – Unclear understanding of cloud resource emissions and energy footprint

As organisational cloud adoption accelerates, these challenges compound, preventing maximum business value from cloud investments.

Our Solution: The SixPivot Cloud FinOps consulting practice helps organisations optimise cloud spend and increase the value of their cloud investment. With a deep understanding of cloud technologies and cost optimisation, we work with clients to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and ROI from cloud infrastructure.

Optimising Azure Investments: This consulting service helps organisations get started with Azure, establish cost management practices from the beginning, or extend existing Azure usage by optimising spend and building internal FinOps capabilities. We provide the cloud financial management expertise and Azure cost optimisation knowledge that organisations either lack in-house or need to augment during their cloud adoption journey.

Guided by Industry Frameworks: Our FinOps consulting services are heavily guided by the FinOps Foundation framework and Microsoft Well-Architected Framework (WAF). The FinOps Foundation framework recommends a "Crawl, Walk, Run" approach to continuously improve an organisation's FinOps capability, ideally leading to organisational self-sufficiency.

Key Benefits • Cloud cost management – Identify opportunities for cost optimisation and increased efficiencies • Cloud resource optimisation – Optimise use of cloud resources to improve efficiency • Cloud financial management – Data-driven insights and recommendations for informed cloud strategy decisions, including spend optimisation and cost forecasting • Cloud process improvement – Streamlined cloud operations resulting in faster, more accurate decision-making

FinOps Guiding Principles • Teams need to collaborate • Everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage • A centralised team drives FinOps • Reports should be accessible and timely • Decisions are driven by the business value of the cloud • Take advantage of the variable-cost model of cloud

Cloud Cost Health Check (Entry Point): We recommend that new adopters of FinOps practices start with a Cloud Cost Health Check. This assessment provides immediate, tangible results and serves as the foundation for ongoing FinOps maturity.

What We Analyse: • Cloud resource usage, environmental emissions, and energy impact • Under-utilised and over-provisioned cloud resources • Cost optimisation opportunities including reserved instances, rightsizing, and decommissioning • Cloud vendor-specific recommendations for the most appropriate commercial arrangements

Deliverables: • Written report identifying current usage and projects • Prioritised list of potential cost-saving measures and implementation actions • Overall health check rating for the organisation's FinOps position • Presentation of priority findings to customer stakeholders • Roadmap of recommended remediation activities • Recommended next steps for FinOps adoption

Ideal For: Organisations experiencing unpredictable cloud costs, those seeking to optimise existing cloud spend, or teams needing to establish financial governance and cross-functional collaboration around cloud investments. Suitable for organisations at any stage of cloud adoption seeking to maximise business value.