FinOps · Cloud Cost Governance · Multi-Cloud
You Moved to the Cloud.You Are Still Paying
On-Premise Prices. The average enterprise wastes 32% of its cloud spend — on over-provisioned instances, orphaned resources, unoptimised storage tiers, and Reserved Instances purchased for workloads that have since changed. Symhas implements FinOps governance frameworks across OCI, AWS, Azure, and GCP — identifying and eliminating cloud waste as a continuous managed service, not a one-time exercise.
Cloud Infrastructure Platforms
Oracle Cloud (OCI)Best for Oracle ERP & database workloads
Amazon Web ServicesBroadest services · Global regions
Microsoft AzureBest for Microsoft workloads & hybrid
Google Cloud (GCP)Best for AI/ML & data analytics
FinOps & Cost GovernanceMulti-cloud cost optimisation
Where Your Cloud Budget Is Going
The Average Enterprise Wastes
32% of Its Cloud Spend. Cloud waste is not a technology problem. It is a governance problem — the absence of a continuous process for matching cloud resource consumption to actual workload requirements. Most enterprises do a cost optimisation exercise once, reduce spend by 20%, and then watch that 20% drift back over the next 18 months as teams provision resources and forget to deprovision them. Symhas implements FinOps as a continuous managed discipline — not a one-time engagement. Monthly governance reviews, automated rightsizing alerts, Reserved Instance portfolio management, and cross-team cost allocation that makes engineering teams accountable for the resources they consume.
32% of Its Cloud Spend. Cloud waste is not a technology problem. It is a governance problem — the absence of a continuous process for matching cloud resource consumption to actual workload requirements. Most enterprises do a cost optimisation exercise once, reduce spend by 20%, and then watch that 20% drift back over the next 18 months as teams provision resources and forget to deprovision them. Symhas implements FinOps as a continuous managed discipline — not a one-time engagement. Monthly governance reviews, automated rightsizing alerts, Reserved Instance portfolio management, and cross-team cost allocation that makes engineering teams accountable for the resources they consume.
38%
Oversized compute instancesInstances provisioned for peak load that never arrives — running at 15–30% utilisation at steady state. The average rightsizing exercise identifies 38% of compute spend as reducible without any performance impact.
24%
Orphaned resourcesSnapshots, unattached storage volumes, idle load balancers, and stopped instances still generating billing charges. Orphaned resources represent an average of 24% of cloud spend in environments without automated cleanup policies.
19%
Unoptimised Reserved Instance coverageReserved Instances purchased for workload profiles that have since changed — applied to the wrong instance family, wrong region, or wrong term. RI coverage analysis alone typically recovers 15–25% of committed spend.
18%
Data transfer and storage tier wasteData stored in hot tiers that has not been accessed in months. Data transfer charges between services and regions that were not visible at architecture design time. Object storage lifecycle policies eliminate the majority of this category.
Cloud Waste by Platform
Average waste % before FinOps governance — Symhas client baseline assessment data
AWS
Average waste before governance — driven by EC2 overprovisioning and RI misalignment
Microsoft Azure
Average waste — VM sizing and orphaned managed disks primary contributors
Google Cloud (GCP)
Average waste — BigQuery slot overallocation and GKE node oversizing
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Lowest average waste — OCI's flat network pricing eliminates transfer waste
What Symhas FinOps Delivers
Six FinOps Capabilities.Continuous. Not One-Off. Every Symhas FinOps engagement runs as a continuous managed service — monthly reviews, automated alerts, and a real number attached to every recommendation.
Cloud Cost AssessmentFree 2-week assessment across all cloud platforms — rightsizing opportunities, orphaned resource inventory, Reserved Instance gaps, and storage tier recommendations. Every finding comes with a specific dollar value and a remediation action.
Rightsizing & Resource OptimisationAutomated rightsizing analysis using CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OCI Monitoring, and Cloud Monitoring — identifying over-provisioned compute, memory, and storage with specific downsizing recommendations validated against actual utilisation data.
Reserved Instance & Savings PlansRI portfolio analysis and optimisation — coverage gap identification, convertible RI recommendations, Savings Plans modelling, and a purchase schedule that maximises discount coverage without overcommitting to instance types that may change.
Cost Allocation & ChargebackTagging policy design and enforcement, cost allocation reports by team, product, and environment — and a chargeback or showback model that gives engineering teams visibility of the cost impact of the resources they consume.
Budget Alerts & Anomaly DetectionBudget thresholds, cost anomaly detection, and Slack/email alerting — so unexpected spend is identified and acted on in hours, not discovered at month-end invoice review when the cost has already been incurred.
Monthly FinOps Governance ReviewsMonthly structured review with a Symhas FinOps analyst — covering spend vs budget by team and environment, top 10 cost reduction opportunities, cumulative savings achieved, and next month's optimisation plan with owner assignments.
How It Works
Four Phases.Assessment to Continuous Optimisation. FinOps is not a project. It is a continuous practice. The four phases below describe how we get from your first assessment to a self-sustaining cost governance programme.
01
Assessment
Weeks 1–2 · Free
Full inventory of cloud spend across all platforms — rightsizing gaps, orphaned resources, RI coverage, storage tier analysis. Every finding quantified in dollars. No obligation to proceed.
02
Quick Wins
Weeks 3–6
Implement the highest-value, lowest-risk recommendations first — rightsizing, orphaned resource cleanup, and storage lifecycle policies. Average 15–20% cost reduction in the first 6 weeks.
03
Governance Framework
Weeks 7–12
Tagging policy, cost allocation model, budget alerts, anomaly detection, and Reserved Instance portfolio optimisation. The governance framework that prevents waste from re-accumulating.
04
Continuous Optimisation
Month 4 onwards
Monthly governance reviews, quarterly RI portfolio analysis, and continuous rightsizing alerts. Cumulative savings tracked and reported every month — so the business case is always visible.
Verified Client Outcome
$25B AUM Financial Institution.
33% Cloud Cost Reduction. Month 1. "We were paying for Oracle Database licences twice — once on the licence and once to AWS for the compute to run them on. The Symhas FinOps assessment took two weeks and identified $1.4M in annual savings before we had signed any ongoing engagement. We moved the Oracle workloads to OCI and kept everything else on Azure. The cost reduction was visible in month one." VP of Infrastructure · US Financial Services Institution · $25B+ AUM Download Full Case Study PDF →
33% Cloud Cost Reduction. Month 1. "We were paying for Oracle Database licences twice — once on the licence and once to AWS for the compute to run them on. The Symhas FinOps assessment took two weeks and identified $1.4M in annual savings before we had signed any ongoing engagement. We moved the Oracle workloads to OCI and kept everything else on Azure. The cost reduction was visible in month one." VP of Infrastructure · US Financial Services Institution · $25B+ AUM Download Full Case Study PDF →
↓33%Cloud cost reduction year 1
$1.4MAnnual savings identified in assessment
2wkAssessment to first recommendation
Month 1Savings visible in billing
Start with the Free Assessment
Find Out How MuchYour Cloud Bill Should Be. Symhas runs a free 2-week FinOps assessment across all your cloud platforms. Every finding comes with a dollar value. No obligation to proceed. The number speaks for itself.