Ten years of independent cloud cost optimisation across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Real engagements and real numbers, from seven-figure multi-cloud estates to small single-account AWS environments.
25%
average reduction in annual cloud spend
Millions
of pounds saved across client estates
10 years
in cloud cost management
0%
of revenue from vendor commission
Every case study on this page is a real engagement, and the numbers are real. We publish them without names for one reason: our clients didn't sign up to have their inboxes filled with sales calls because they appeared on our website. We'd rather protect them from that than borrow their logos.
We're not hiding anything. If you'd like to talk through any of these engagements in more detail, get in touch and, where the client is happy, we'll arrange a direct conversation or reference.
Public sector · Azure + AWS
A large UK public sector organisation
How coordinated FinOps across Azure and AWS saved a UK public sector organisation £2.3m over four years, including a £900k annual run-rate reduction.
Read the full case study →Technology · AWS
A scaling UK technology business
£180,000 saved over two years through reservations and rightsizing, while training finance and engineering to run FinOps themselves.
Read the full case study →Payments · AWS
A European payments business
Eight years of continuous AWS cost optimisation on a point-of-sale payments platform where reliability and latency can never be compromised.
Read the full case study →Hospitality · AWS
A UK hospitality group
Six years from initial AWS build to an established FinOps practice: cost governance, reservation management and technical guidance for a UK hospitality group.
Read the full case study →Music technology · Google Cloud
A European music technology startup
A projected €1m annual Google Cloud bill cut by more than 90% by re-architecting BigQuery and storage, an hour a week with the development team.
Read the full case study →Social housing · AWS
A UK housing association
Asked to approve £1m of storage hardware, we advised against it and delivered an AWS S3 backup solution the client runs themselves at a fraction of the cost.
Read the full case study →Digital publishing · AWS
A consumer publishing platform, delivered through a digital agency
An inherited AWS estate re-architected to cut monthly cost by 75%, a reduction sustained over several years rather than clawed back by drift.
Read the full case study →National campaign · Kubernetes
Delivered through a global marketing agency
Three years keeping a national consumer campaign's Kubernetes infrastructure reliable and on budget through extreme, time-bound traffic peaks.
Read the full case study →Media · AWS
A UK media business
FinOps at smaller scale: reservation management, technical change and continuous cost optimisation, proportionately scaled to a small AWS estate.
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