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Is Your Cloud Bill a Black Box of Surprises?
You embraced the cloud for its agility and scale, but now you're facing unpredictable, spiraling costs. Engineering teams are spending more time on budget spreadsheets than building products, and the C-suite is demanding answers. You're not alone. Without a dedicated FinOps strategy, most companies overspend on cloud by at least 30%. It's time to trade confusion for clarity and transform your cloud spend from a liability into a strategic advantage.
Why CIS for Cloud FinOps? We Turn Data into Dollars.
Choosing a partner to optimize your cloud spend is a matter of trust and expertise. We go beyond simple reports and dashboards. We embed AI-driven intelligence and decades of cloud architecture experience into your operations to deliver sustainable, long-term savings and efficiency.
AI-Powered Insights
Our proprietary AI models analyze your usage patterns to uncover hidden savings opportunities that native tools and human analysis often miss, from rightsizing recommendations to anomaly detection.
Multi-Cloud Experts
We are certified experts across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We provide a unified optimization strategy, eliminating silos and maximizing savings regardless of your cloud mix.
Guaranteed ROI
Our engagements are structured to be self-funding. We guarantee savings that far exceed our fees, typically delivering a 3-5x ROI within the first year.
Security-First Approach
As a SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified company, we perform all optimizations with a rigorous, security-first mindset, using read-only access and the principle of least privilege.
Automation & Tooling
We don't just recommend; we help you implement. We build automation scripts and integrate with tools like Terraform and CloudFormation to make cost optimization a continuous, automated process.
Cultural Enablement
We help you build a durable FinOps culture. We train your teams, establish governance, and create cost-accountability frameworks that empower engineers to make cost-conscious decisions.
Predictable Forecasting
Move beyond reactive budget management. Our AI-driven forecasting models help you predict future spend with high accuracy, enabling better strategic planning and eliminating budget overruns.
Vendor Negotiation
Leverage our expertise and partner status with major cloud providers. We assist in negotiating Enterprise Discount Programs (EDPs) and private pricing to secure the best possible rates for your scale.
Performance-Aware
Cost optimization should never come at the expense of performance. Our architects ensure every recommendation is balanced against your application's performance, reliability, and SLOs.
Our Comprehensive Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps Services
We offer a full spectrum of services designed to address every aspect of your cloud financial management lifecycle. From initial discovery to continuous, automated governance, we provide the expertise and tools to put you in complete control of your cloud spend.
Cloud Spend Visibility & Analysis
You can't control what you can't see. We start by creating a single pane of glass for your multi-cloud costs, providing granular visibility and accurate cost allocation.
- Implement robust tagging strategies and cost allocation models.
- Develop customized dashboards in tools like CloudHealth, Apptio, or native consoles.
- Identify top cost drivers and initial "quick win" savings opportunities.
Rightsizing & Idle Resource Management
The most common source of waste is oversized and unused resources. We systematically identify and eliminate this waste without impacting performance.
- Analyze CPU, memory, and network utilization to recommend optimal instance sizes.
- Automate the identification and termination of idle resources like unattached EBS volumes and idle RDS instances.
- Implement "sleep" schedules for non-production environments to save up to 70%.
Commitment & Discount Management
Effectively managing Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans is key to unlocking significant savings. We provide the data-driven strategy to maximize your commitment-based discounts.
- Analyze historical usage to recommend the optimal mix of RIs, Savings Plans, and Spot instances.
- Manage the lifecycle of commitments, including purchases, conversions, and sales on the RI marketplace.
- Provide forecasting to ensure your commitments align with future growth.
Storage Tier Optimization
Don't pay premium prices for infrequently accessed data. We analyze your data access patterns and implement automated policies to move data to the most cost-effective storage tiers.
- Implement lifecycle policies for object storage (S3, Azure Blob, GCS).
- Analyze and optimize database and block storage performance vs. cost (e.g., gp2 vs. gp3).
- Identify and eliminate orphaned snapshots and redundant backups.
Cloud Data Transfer (Egress) Cost Reduction
Data egress fees are often a hidden and significant cost. We analyze your network architecture to minimize these charges and optimize data flow.
- Architect solutions to leverage cloud provider networks and minimize inter-region or internet egress.
- Implement Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to reduce data transfer costs.
- Optimize application logic to reduce unnecessary data movement.
Kubernetes & Container Cost Optimization
Containers add a layer of complexity to cost management. We provide specialized expertise to give you visibility into your K8s spend and optimize resource allocation at the pod and node level.
- Implement tools like Kubecost or OpenCost for granular container cost visibility.
- Optimize pod resource requests and limits to improve bin packing and reduce node waste.
- Leverage cluster auto-scalers and Spot instances for container workloads effectively.
Serverless & PaaS Cost Optimization
While serverless architectures can be cost-effective, they require specific optimization strategies. We help you fine-tune your functions and managed services for peak efficiency.
- Optimize Lambda/Function memory allocation and timeout settings.
- Analyze and refactor code to reduce execution time and invocation counts.
- Choose the right pricing and provisioning models for PaaS services like RDS, DynamoDB, and BigQuery.
Anomaly Detection & Alerting
Prevent bill shock before it happens. We implement AI-driven anomaly detection systems that monitor your spend and alert you to unexpected spikes in real-time.
- Configure custom alerting based on budgets, tags, or specific service usage.
- Integrate cost alerts into your existing communication channels like Slack or Teams.
- Provide root cause analysis for cost anomalies to prevent recurrence.
Architectural Cost Optimization Reviews
The most significant savings often come from architectural changes. Our cloud architects review your applications and recommend design patterns that are inherently more cost-efficient.
- Identify opportunities to switch to more cost-effective managed services.
- Recommend event-driven and serverless patterns to replace idle, provisioned resources.
- Advise on multi-region strategies that balance latency, resiliency, and cost.
CI/CD Cost Governance
Embed cost awareness directly into your development lifecycle. We help you integrate cost estimation and governance checks into your CI/CD pipelines.
- Use tools like Infracost to show developers the cost impact of their infrastructure-as-code changes.
- Implement policy-as-code (e.g., Open Policy Agent) to prevent the deployment of overly expensive resources.
- Create a feedback loop that makes cost a key metric in the development process.
FinOps Cultural Transformation & Training
Technology is only half the battle. We help you build a sustainable, company-wide FinOps culture where everyone feels ownership over cloud costs.
- Conduct workshops and training for engineering, finance, and product teams.
- Establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) with a clear FinOps charter.
- Develop role-based KPIs and incentives that encourage cost-conscious behavior.
Showback & Chargeback Modeling
Drive accountability by attributing cloud costs back to the teams, products, or business units that incurred them. We help you design and implement fair and accurate allocation models.
- Develop sophisticated showback reports that give teams clear visibility into their spend.
- Implement formal chargeback mechanisms to integrate cloud costs into departmental budgets.
- Calculate unit economics (e.g., cost per customer, cost per transaction) to link cloud spend to business value.
AI-Driven Cloud Spend Forecasting
Go beyond simple linear projections. Our machine learning models analyze your usage trends, seasonality, and growth plans to create highly accurate budget forecasts.
- Provide monthly and quarterly forecasts with confidence intervals.
- Model the cost impact of new feature launches or customer onboarding.
- Integrate forecasts with your corporate financial planning tools.
Cloud Vendor Negotiation & EDP Strategy
Don't leave money on the table. We arm you with the data and strategy needed to negotiate the best possible terms with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Benchmark your spending and discount levels against industry peers.
- Build the business case for an Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) or private pricing agreement.
- Provide expert guidance during the negotiation process to maximize your savings.
GreenOps & Sustainability Reporting
Align your cost optimization efforts with your corporate sustainability goals. We help you measure, report, and reduce the carbon footprint of your cloud usage.
- Utilize tools like the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool to establish a baseline.
- Identify opportunities to move workloads to more energy-efficient regions.
- Optimize resource utilization to directly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Real-World Results: Our FinOps Success Stories
We deliver tangible results that impact the bottom line. Explore how we've helped companies like yours transform their cloud financial operations and achieve significant, sustainable savings.
The Problem: Unchecked Growth Leads to Bill Shock
ScaleUp SaaS was experiencing rapid customer growth, but their AWS bill was growing even faster. With a complex microservices architecture on EKS, they had zero visibility into which features or customers were driving costs. Their monthly bill had become a dreaded surprise, hindering their ability to forecast and plan effectively.
Key Challenges:
- No granular cost visibility for their Kubernetes environment.
- Engineers were overprovisioning resources "just in case," leading to massive waste.
- A manual, spreadsheet-based approach to cost tracking was inaccurate and time-consuming.
- Finance and Engineering departments were operating in silos with conflicting goals.
Our AI-Enabled Solution:
We deployed our AI-Enabled FinOps POD, which acted as an extension of their team. The solution was a blend of technology implementation and cultural change.
- Implemented Kubecost to provide granular, real-time cost visibility down to the namespace and pod level.
- Used our AI-driven rightsizing engine to analyze workload patterns and provide precise CPU/memory recommendations, which were then automated.
- Established a "FinOps Guild" with members from Engineering, Finance, and Product to create shared accountability.
- Automated the management of Savings Plans and leveraged Spot instances for stateless workloads, maximizing discount coverage.
The Problem: Seasonal Spikes and Pervasive Waste
RetailRight's Azure spend would skyrocket during the Q4 holiday season, but it wouldn't return to baseline afterward. They were paying for peak capacity year-round. Their sprawling infrastructure had years of accumulated waste, including thousands of orphaned disks and snapshots, and a poorly managed Reserved Instance portfolio.
Key Challenges:
- Massive overprovisioning to handle peak traffic, leading to low average utilization.
- Lack of automation for identifying and cleaning up unused resources.
- Highly unpredictable data egress costs from their media assets.
- Difficulty forecasting demand and aligning infrastructure spend accordingly.
Our AI-Enabled Solution:
We performed an intensive Cloud Cost Optimization Audit, followed by an ongoing managed service to ensure continuous efficiency.
- Developed custom automation scripts that identified and safely deleted terabytes of orphaned storage and snapshots.
- Re-architected their autoscaling strategy for their web and application tiers to be more responsive and cost-effective.
- Implemented Azure CDN and optimized image delivery to slash data egress costs by over 60%.
- Created a comprehensive RI and Savings Plan strategy, increasing their commitment coverage from 40% to over 85% for predictable workloads.
The Problem: Multi-Cloud Complexity and Compliance Overhead
InnovatePay used AWS for its core application and GCP for its data analytics and machine learning workloads. This multi-cloud strategy created massive operational overhead. They had separate, inconsistent cost management practices for each provider and struggled to get a unified view of their total cloud spend, making it impossible to calculate the true cost of their products.
Key Challenges:
- Lack of a unified platform for multi-cloud cost visibility and management.
- Redundant and expensive data transfers between AWS and GCP.
- Ensuring any cost optimization changes did not violate strict financial compliance requirements (e.g., data residency).
- Difficulty attributing shared data platform costs (on GCP) back to specific product lines (on AWS).
Our AI-Enabled Solution:
We implemented a holistic multi-cloud FinOps framework, focusing on unified governance and intelligent workload placement.
- Deployed a third-party Cloud Management Platform (CMP) to act as a single source of truth for all cloud costs.
- Developed a sophisticated chargeback model to accurately allocate GCP data costs to the AWS-based services that consumed them.
- Re-architected data pipelines to minimize costly inter-cloud data egress, leveraging direct interconnects where possible.
- Embedded compliance checks into our optimization recommendations, ensuring all changes adhered to their security and regulatory policies.
Our Proven 4-Step FinOps Methodology
We follow a structured, iterative approach to embed FinOps into your organization, ensuring you not only achieve immediate savings but also build a long-term capability for financial governance in the cloud.
1. Discover & Analyze
We begin with a deep dive into your environment to establish a comprehensive baseline. This involves instrumenting your accounts for full visibility, implementing tagging, and identifying initial low-hanging fruit.
2. Recommend & Optimize
Using our AI-powered platform and expert analysis, we generate a prioritized list of optimization initiatives. We work with your teams to validate and implement these changes, focusing on the highest-impact items first.
3. Govern & Automate
We help you move from one-off fixes to continuous optimization. This includes setting up budgets and alerts, automating cleanup tasks, and integrating cost checks into your CI/CD pipeline to prevent future waste.
4. Evolve & Empower
The final step is to empower your organization. We provide training, establish governance frameworks like a CCoE, and create feedback loops that foster a culture of cost accountability and continuous improvement.
Platforms & Tools We Master
Our expertise spans the entire cloud and FinOps ecosystem. We are proficient with all major cloud providers and the leading third-party cost management platforms.
What Our Clients Say
Trust is earned through results. Hear directly from leaders who have partnered with us to transform their cloud financial management.
"CIS delivered on their promise, cutting our AWS bill by over 30% in the first quarter. Their team felt like a true extension of our own, providing insights we never would have found ourselves."
"The level of detail in their analysis was astounding. They didn't just point out savings; they provided the exact code and configuration changes needed to achieve them. It made implementation fast and easy for my team."
"Finally, we have predictable cloud spending. Their AI-powered forecasting is incredibly accurate and has been a game-changer for our financial planning process. I can now go to the board with confidence in my numbers."
"We were struggling with our Kubernetes costs. CIS's container optimization expertise was exactly what we needed. They helped us right-size our cluster and implement Kubecost, giving us the visibility we'd been missing."
"Their security-first approach gave us peace of mind. They identified significant savings opportunities while also highlighting and helping us remediate several security misconfigurations in our GCP environment."
"The FinOps cultural training was invaluable. It helped bridge the gap between our finance and engineering teams, creating a shared language and a collaborative approach to managing cloud spend. The impact goes far beyond just the dollar savings."
Flexible Engagement Models to Fit Your Needs
We understand that every organization is at a different stage of its FinOps journey. We offer a range of engagement models, from one-time projects to ongoing partnerships, to provide the right level of support for you.
Cloud Cost Optimization Audit
A one-time, intensive deep-dive into your cloud environment to identify and quantify all major savings opportunities. Ideal for organizations looking for a quick-win assessment and a strategic roadmap.
- Comprehensive analysis of your entire cloud estate.
- A detailed report with prioritized, actionable recommendations.
- Projected savings and implementation plan.
Continuous FinOps-as-a-Service
Our most popular model. We provide ongoing management and optimization of your cloud spend, acting as your dedicated FinOps team. Ideal for ensuring savings are sustained and a FinOps culture is embedded.
- Monthly health checks and optimization cycles.
- Management of commitments (RIs/SPs).
- Regular reporting and governance meetings.
AI-Enabled FinOps POD
A dedicated, cross-functional team (POD) of FinOps experts, cloud architects, and automation engineers to accelerate your FinOps maturity. Ideal for large enterprises or complex environments requiring deep, hands-on integration.
- Dedicated team integrated with your workflows.
- Focus on automation and architectural optimization.
- Hands-on support for cultural transformation.
Frequently Asked Questions
While results vary based on your current environment, most of our clients see a 20-40% reduction in their monthly cloud spend. Our initial audit will provide a more precise, data-backed savings projection for your specific situation.
We adhere to the principle of least privilege. For the initial analysis, we typically only require read-only access to your billing and utilization data (e.g., an IAM role with specific read-only permissions). We will never ask for root access, and any implementation work is done collaboratively with your team.
Success is measured by tangible, realized savings against a pre-engagement baseline. We track this meticulously and provide monthly reports detailing the optimizations implemented and the resulting cost reductions. The ROI is a simple calculation: the total savings achieved minus the cost of our service.
Native tools are excellent for providing data, but they often lack the context and actionable insights needed for deep optimization. They tell you *what* you're spending, but not always *why* or *how* to fix it efficiently. Our service combines our AI-powered analysis platform with deep human expertise to turn that data into an actionable, automated optimization strategy.
You will start seeing results quickly. Our initial audit typically identifies "quick win" savings from idle and oversized resources that can be realized within the first 30 days. More substantial, architectural savings are implemented over a 3-6 month period, with continuous optimization thereafter.
We act as partners and enablers, not gatekeepers. Our goal is to empower your engineers, not burden them. We provide clear, prioritized recommendations with all the necessary context, and we integrate into your existing workflows (e.g., Jira, Slack). We handle the heavy lifting of analysis so your team can focus on implementation and innovation.
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