FinOps & Cost Optimisation
FinOps & Cost Optimisation
Ongoing management of your cloud spend, with monthly reporting on consumption, utilisation and savings, and a named contact who talks you through what changed and why.
Our FinOps and Cost Optimisation Service
Cloud costs can quickly become disconnected from business value. Applications grow, requirements change and resources are often left running long after they are needed.
FinOps helps organisations regain control through continuous visibility, analysis and optimisation. Rather than treating cloud spend as a monthly surprise, it becomes an active part of infrastructure strategy.
Within Synapse Adaptive Cloud, workload placement decisions are based on cost, performance, sovereignty and compliance. This ensures cloud investment remains aligned to business objectives, delivering greater transparency, improved efficiency and fewer unexpected costs.
How we can help
FinOps is about more than reducing cloud costs. It gives you the visibility, insight and accountability needed to make better infrastructure decisions over time. By continuously monitoring consumption, identifying optimisation opportunities and aligning spend to business priorities, you gain greater control over your cloud estate and confidence in where every pound is being invested.
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Ongoing, month by month
Cloud spend moves weekly. This is a standing service with monthly reporting and continuous review, so decisions are made against what your environment is doing now.
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Reporting you can act on
Every month you receive reporting on consumption, utilisation and savings achieved. A dashboard is available where you want live visibility, and the monthly report is the deliverable your finance team can work from.
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A conversation, not just a number
Reporting is reviewed with a named contact who can explain what moved, what it cost and what we did about it. The same person who owns the rest of your relationship with us.
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Right-sizing and reserved capacity
Environments are reviewed for over-provisioning, unused resources and reserved commitments that no longer match consumption, with recommendations you can approve or decline.
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Cost as part of placement
Within Adaptive Cloud, where a workload runs is a commercial decision as much as a technical one. FinOps gives that decision real numbers, so if a workload would cost less or perform better on private or sovereign infrastructure, the evidence is there.
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Standalone or bundled
FinOps can be bought on its own, alongside Azure resale, or bundled with other managed services.
Synapse have provided exceptional support, demonstrating strong technical expertise, proactive problem-solving, and a genuine commitment to achieving positive customer outcomes.
The Synapse Way
The Synapse Way
The Synapse Way is our commitment to ownership. It defines how we work with customers, taking responsibility for outcomes, driving continuous improvement and building long-term partnerships, not just delivering a service.
For FinOps, that means going beyond reporting and recommendations. We work alongside you to understand how your environment is evolving, identify opportunities to improve efficiency and help you make informed decisions that deliver measurable value over time.
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Customer Success at the core
A dedicated Customer Success Manager for every customer who reviews the numbers with you rather than emailing a report
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Proactive improvement
We identify opportunities to reduce waste and improve efficiency before they become a problem.
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Data-driven
Every recommendation is backed by evidence from your environment.
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Full accountability
One team is responsible for cost, performance and the platform itself.
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Long-term partnership
Customers benefit from regular reviews and continuous optimisation as your business, technology and priorities evolve.
Frequently asked questions
Straight Answers
The ongoing practice of managing and forecasting cloud spend — reviewing what is driving cost, acting on it, and reporting the effect month by month.
Yes. FinOps is available standalone, alongside Azure resale, or bundled with other managed services.
No. We run the review, the optimisation work and the reporting as a service.
FinOps covers public cloud spend. Private and sovereign infrastructure run on a predictable monthly commitment agreed upfront, so the cost conversation there is a different one.
Licence footprint is reviewed at renewal, when the commitment is being set, rather than as part of the ongoing FinOps service. Once a licence count is locked in for a term, it stays fixed.
Monthly reporting covering consumption, utilisation and savings achieved, reviewed with your named contact. A dashboard is available on request.
Our FinOps service is primarily delivered for Microsoft Azure, where our expertise is deepest and where most customers engage with us. However, we can also support organisations operating across other public cloud platforms, helping provide visibility, governance and cost optimisation across a broader multi-cloud estate.
Usually a combination of capacity that was sized at go-live and never revisited, resources nobody owns, and reserved commitments that no longer match how you consume.
Our thinking
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Cloud costs shouldn’t be a surprise. With continuous optimisation, clear accountability and actionable reporting, FinOps helps you make better decisions and get more value from every cloud investment.
