FinOps services
Maximize value through FinOps
FinOps services provide you with full visibility into your cloud usage and costs. We transform raw consumption data into strategic insights, fostering cross-departmental collaboration to drive accountability, reduce waste, and improve ROI on cloud investments.
Why should Skaylink be your FinOps partner?
Skaylink’s FinOps services can help your organization operate more cost-effectively in the cloud. We will assess your current cloud FinOps maturity and partner with you to design and implement market-leading FinOps capabilities, maximizing the value of your cloud investments.
Financial management for your cloud journey
Three phases of the FinOps framework
Inform
Understand the fully loaded costs:
- Visibility into IT spend
- Granular cost allocation
- Team-level budgets and tracking
Performance benchmarking:
- Trending and variance analysis
- Internal team benchmarking
- Industry peer-level benchmarking
Tooling:
- Evaluate and enhance cloud management tools to improve cost control.
Assess:
- Collect data, assess maturity, and onboard tools.
Optimize
Real-time decision-making:
- Remove underutilized services.
- Automate resource management.
- Understand if resources are under- or over-provisioned.
Predict, plan, and purchase capacity:
- Rightsize instances and services.
- Centralize the RI buying process.
- Compare pricing.
Landing zone optimization:
- Tag and label best practices.
- Set budgets.
- Optimize cost insights.
Cost insights, rate, and usage:
- Monitor cost trends and allocations, and optimize usage.
Plan:
- Evaluate capabilities, define the strategy, and train teams.
Operate
IT, finance, and line-of-business collaboration:
- Finance moves at the speed of IT.
- Continuously improve efficiency and innovation.
- Define governance and controls for cloud usage.
Strategy and framework:
- Establish a FinOps team, foster accountability and education.
Advanced workload optimization:
- Auto-scheduling, auto-scaling, serverless, etc.
Implement:
- Ouick wins and cost savings, prioritize recommendations.
Operate
- Execute strategy with internal or external support.
Control costs while delivering business value
Managing cloud expenses requires more than just monitoring budgets – it’s about developing financial discipline throughout your organization. FinOps implements a structured approach to bridge the gap between IT, finance, and business teams. This empowers each group to proactively manage coud costs that are directly aligned with strategic business goals.
FinOps creates a culture of ownership by transforming cost data into actionable insights accessible to everyone. Teams are equipped to identify savings, avoid wasteful spending, and clearly align their cloud strategies with measuable business outcomes.
FinOps foundations
FinOps is a cultural and operational framework that connects technology, finance, and business to ensure accountability and maximize the value of the cloud. It fosters collaboration across teams, enabling faster innovation with cost control and smarter, data-driven decisions regarding cloud resource investmens.
Our impact
53% savings achieved on cloud costs for Girteka
We reduced Girteka’s cloud costs by 53% through prioritized cost-saving initiatives and improved resource efficiency.
23% savings achieved on cloud infrastructure costs for Divitty
With our help, Divitty was able to save 23% on cloud infrastructure costs in one year by optimizing instance reservations and implementing other cost-saving measures.
52% savings achieved on cloud costs for Javad
We stepped in after Javad’s IT specialist left, offering fresh perspectives and innovative approaches. Ultimately, we saved 52% on their cloud costs through strategic infrastructure changes.
Learn more about our AWS FinOps services
Lower your AWS costs by up to 53% without sacrificing performance, stability, or security. Our experts will analyze your cloud environment and create a detailed cost report with specific, scalable optimization recommendations.
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Fine-tune your cloud spending with FinOps
Make your cloud investment go further with FinOps. Track spending, optimize costs, and unlock savings to increase efficiency and finance future innovation. It’s a cultural shift with incredible potential.
Reach out to our specialists to discover how FinOps could transform your organization.
