FinOps and cloud compliance guides from Cloudreason, an independent UK cloud consultancy.https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/azure-cost-optimisation/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/azure-cost-optimisation/Where Azure estates overspend: unclaimed licensing benefits, lapsed commitments, unbounded log ingestion, and the architecture work underneath.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/google-cloud-cost-optimisation/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/google-cloud-cost-optimisation/Why Google Cloud bills are won and lost in data design: BigQuery pricing, committed use discounts, Spot VMs and the defaults worth changing early.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/nhs-dspt-cloud/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/nhs-dspt-cloud/What the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit asks of a cloud estate, how the CAF-aligned version changes it, and how suppliers evidence it each June.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/soc-2-aws/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/soc-2-aws/What SOC 2 asks of an AWS estate: the Trust Services Criteria, what a Type II observation window means, and how to keep evidence audit-ready all year.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/aws-cost-optimisation/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/aws-cost-optimisation/Why AWS cost optimisation stalls at the tooling layer, and how hygiene, pricing and architecture each contribute to what an estate really costs.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/cloud-cost-allocation-tagging/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/cloud-cost-allocation-tagging/A practical approach to tagging, showback and unit economics on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and why allocation is the foundation of FinOps.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/cloud-storage-costs/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/cloud-storage-costs/How storage tiers, lifecycle policies and retention discipline cut cloud storage costs on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and the retrieval traps to avoid.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/savings-plans-vs-reserved-instances/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/managed-finops/savings-plans-vs-reserved-instances/How AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances differ, what Azure reservations add, and how to size commitments without freezing waste into your estate.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/cyber-essentials-plus-cloud/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/cyber-essentials-plus-cloud/Cloud services are in scope for Cyber Essentials Plus. What the five controls mean for AWS, Azure and SaaS estates, and how to pass the audited assessment.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/iso-27001-aws/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/iso-27001-aws/How ISO 27001 Annex A controls map to AWS services, what you inherit from AWS and what remains yours, and how to keep evidence current between audits.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/ncsc-cloud-security-principles/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/ncsc-cloud-security-principles/What the 14 NCSC Cloud Security Principles ask of a cloud estate, why principle 14 is where estates fail, and how to evidence them for public sector work.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/pci-dss-aws/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/cloud-compliance/pci-dss-aws/Running PCI DSS v4 on AWS: what you inherit from a Level 1 provider, how to shrink the cardholder data environment, and how to hold compliance all year.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/digital-publishing-aws-cost-reduction/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/digital-publishing-aws-cost-reduction/An inherited AWS estate re-architected to cut monthly cost by 75%, a reduction sustained over several years rather than clawed back by drift.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/hospitality-aws-finops/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/hospitality-aws-finops/Six years from initial AWS build to an established FinOps practice: cost governance, reservation management and technical guidance for a UK hospitality group.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/media-aws-finops/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/media-aws-finops/FinOps at smaller scale: reservation management, technical change and continuous cost optimisation, proportionately scaled to a small AWS estate.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/music-technology-google-cloud-cost-reduction/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/music-technology-google-cloud-cost-reduction/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.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/national-campaign-kubernetes-finops/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/national-campaign-kubernetes-finops/Three years keeping a national consumer campaign's Kubernetes infrastructure reliable and on budget through extreme, time-bound traffic peaks.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/payments-aws-finops/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/payments-aws-finops/Eight years of continuous AWS cost optimisation on a point-of-sale payments platform where reliability and latency can never be compromised.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/public-sector-multi-cloud-finops/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/public-sector-multi-cloud-finops/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.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/social-housing-cloud-storage/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/social-housing-cloud-storage/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.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/technology-aws-cost-optimisation/https://www.cloudreason.co.uk/case-studies/technology-aws-cost-optimisation/£180,000 saved over two years through reservations and rightsizing, while training finance and engineering to run FinOps themselves.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT