FinOps and cloud cost optimization
You regain control of your cloud bill: first visibility (what you spend and why), then optimization (rightsizing, reservations, shutting down idle resources) and finally governance (tagging, budgets and alerts) so the savings actually stick.
FinOps is a practice for managing cloud spend as a business decision, not as an end-of-month surprise.
We start by giving you real cost visibility —broken down by team, project and service— to understand where every dollar goes. On that basis we apply concrete optimizations (rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, shutting down idle resources) and leave governance in place (tagging, budgets and alerts) so the savings don't erode over time. All on your own infrastructure: savings are measured against your own baseline, not against a number we make up.
Why iTechDev
Fixed budget
Scope and price defined before we start. No hourly billing, no ambiguous scope.
Code 100% yours
All code and configuration are your property from the first commit. No vendor lock-in.
Progress every 2 weeks
Live functional demos each sprint. You see real progress, not a months-long black box.
Engineering with process
CMMI Level 2, 5.0★ on Clutch and 200+ projects. Nearshore team in Monterrey + Texas, in your time zone (CST).
When you need it
What it includes
Cost audit
Analysis of current spend broken down by service, team, project and environment, using Azure Cost Management and/or AWS Cost Explorer. We identify the main cost drivers and the obvious waste. This breakdown is your baseline: any later savings will be measured against it.
Prioritized optimization plan
A list of concrete opportunities ordered by impact and effort, with the estimated saving of each one calculated on your real numbers. You decide what to execute and in what order; nothing is applied without your sign-off.
Rightsizing
Resizing of machines, databases and services to the actual observed usage, removing oversized capacity without compromising the performance of your production workloads.
Reservations and savings plans
Analysis of your steady workloads to recommend reserved instances or savings plans where it pays off, plus shutting down or removing idle resources (unused VMs, orphaned disks, forgotten environments).
Tagging and governance (showback/chargeback)
A tagging scheme to attribute every cost to its team, project or cost center. It enables showback (seeing who spends) and chargeback (billing internally), so each area owns its consumption.
Budgets and alerts
Setup of budgets per account, team or project, with automatic alerts when spend deviates. That way you find out about an overrun when it happens, not when the bill arrives.
Anomaly detection and forecasting
We enable spend anomaly detection (unexpected spikes, newly created resources) and cost forecasting, so finance has a reliable cloud budget instead of a different surprise every month.
Storage and PaaS optimization
We review storage tiers (hot/cold), data transfer (egress) and the sizing of PaaS services and licenses, where spend often hides that VM rightsizing never touches.
How we work
Baseline
We connect your cloud cost tooling and capture the current spend picture. Together we define the real baseline against which we'll measure the result.
Diagnosis and plan
We identify idle resources, oversizing and reservation opportunities. We deliver the prioritized optimization plan, with the estimated saving of each action on your own numbers.
Optimization execution
We apply the approved actions (rightsizing, shutdowns, reservations/savings) in a controlled, reversible way, validating that your workloads keep their performance.
Governance and follow-up
We set up tagging, budgets and alerts, and leave monitoring dashboards. We measure post-optimization spend against the baseline so the savings are verifiable and sustained.
Recurring review (optional)
FinOps is an ongoing discipline: spend creeps back up if no one watches it. If you prefer, we run periodic reviews to catch new waste, renew reservations and adjust budgets. Deliverable: a report each cycle with the cumulative saving against the baseline.
Tech stack
The tools and platforms we build it with — chosen for your problem, not for hype.
Frequently asked questions
How much can I save?
We don't promise a percentage: anyone who quotes a figure before seeing your account is guessing. The real saving depends on how much waste exists in your infrastructure today. That's why we start with the audit: we establish your baseline, identify the concrete opportunities and show you the estimated saving of each one calculated on your own numbers, before executing anything.
Will optimization hurt the performance of my systems?
That's not the goal. Rightsizing adjusts capacity to the actual observed usage, leaving headroom for peaks; we don't cut below what your workloads need. Actions are applied in a controlled, reversible way, and we validate performance after each change. If an optimization carries any risk, we tell you beforehand and you decide.
Do you work with Azure and AWS?
Yes. We use Azure Cost Management for Azure and AWS Cost Explorer for AWS, and if you have both we give you a unified view of cost. The FinOps principles —visibility, optimization and governance— are the same on any cloud; the tool changes, not the method.
Is this a one-off project or something continuous?
It can be both. The audit and the first round of optimization are a scoped project with a measurable result. But FinOps is an ongoing discipline: cloud spend creeps back up if no one watches it. That's why we leave governance in place (tagging, budgets, alerts) for your team to sustain, and if you prefer we can support you on a recurring basis with periodic reviews.
Do you need full access to my cloud?
We work on your infrastructure with the minimum permissions needed. For the diagnosis, read access to costs and resource configuration is usually enough. To execute optimizations we agree the scope and specific access with you, ideally over version-controlled changes with Terraform so everything stays traceable and reversible.
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