Cloud cost optimization & FinOps consulting
Reduce Your Cloud Bill.
We find the unnecessary spending in your AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud bill, and implement the changes that remove it.
Measurable savings
Every finding carries an estimated annual dollar impact.
Senior-level expertise
The person reviewing your architecture is the person who writes the findings.
Low-risk engagement
Read-only access, fixed scope, and no obligation to implement anything.
The problem
Cloud spend grows faster than the business does.
Nothing in a cloud environment naturally pushes cost down.
Bills go up with every deploy, and almost never come back down
Provisioning is a two-minute decision. Deprovisioning is nobody's ticket.
Engineering optimizes for delivery and uptime. Nobody owns the bill
Velocity and reliability both point toward more capacity, and a cost that belongs to everyone belongs to no one.
Finance sees the total. Nobody can explain the line items
Untagged resources and shared clusters make the invoice impossible to allocate, so the only lever left is a blanket cut.
The easy wins are gone. What is left needs architecture knowledge
What remains sits in commitment strategy, Kubernetes efficiency, data transfer, and architecture — where a rightsizing tool will not follow.
Unnecessary spend is charged again next month, and the month after that.
What we analyze
Every place a cloud bill leaks.
Area by area, separating spend that tracks the business from spend that is simply unmanaged.
Compute & rightsizing
Instance sizing, autoscaling, and off-hours schedules.
Commitments & reserved capacity
Coverage, utilization, term mix, and expiries.
Kubernetes efficiency
Requests against real consumption, bin packing, autoscaling.
Storage
Tiering, lifecycle policy, and snapshot sprawl.
Databases
Instance sizing, IOPS, replicas, and service tiers.
Networking & data transfer
Cross-zone traffic, NAT processing, and egress.
Logging & observability
Ingestion volume, retention, and metric cardinality.
Idle & orphaned resources
Unattached disks, stale environments, abandoned accounts.
Architecture inefficiency
Patterns that make spend scale faster than usage.
Governance & FinOps practice
Tagging, allocation, budgets, and who owns the bill.
AI & GPU infrastructure
GPU utilization, inference sizing, and model spend.
How it works
A short, fixed-scope engagement with a defined end date.
The assessment typically runs two to four weeks and stops when it is done. Steps four and five happen only if you want them to.
Discovery
60 minutesA short call to understand your environment, what is driving spend growth, and what you need the outcome to be.
Assessment
Read-only accessWe analyze billing data, commitment coverage, and the architecture behind the largest line items.
Findings
Your deliverablePrioritized recommendations with estimated annual impact, effort, and risk for each — plus a stakeholder readout.
Optimization
OptionalWe implement the recommendations alongside your team, through your change process.
Continuous FinOps
OptionalWe stay on to run the ongoing practice — optimization cycles, commitments, forecasting, and reporting.
What you get
A costed, prioritized plan you can execute.
The assessment ends with something an engineering team can execute and a finance team can budget against.
Prioritized findings register
Every opportunity, with annual impact, effort, risk, and owner — sorted so the sequence is obvious.
Quantified savings opportunity
The total reduction available, split into configuration changes and architectural work.
Implementation plan
What to execute in what order, how to validate it, and how to roll it back.
Executive readout
A working session on the findings, the trade-offs, and the decisions that need a person.
Example opportunities
The kinds of savings an assessment looks for.
Which apply, and what each is worth, is what the assessment establishes.
Environments that run when nobody is using them
Capacity provisioned for a peak that never arrives
Commitment coverage that no longer matches the workload
Kubernetes requests set far above real consumption
Storage left in the tier it was created in
Snapshots and volumes that outlived their workload
Data taking the expensive path
Observability billed at full fidelity forever
Managed service tiers chosen once and inherited
Spend no team recognizes as theirs
Engagements
Find it, capture it, keep it.
Most engagements start with the assessment and stop there. The two that follow exist because implementing findings and holding the line afterwards are real work, and most teams would rather not add them to an existing roadmap.
Who you work with
Every engagement is led personally by a tech executive with experience leading FinOps in Big Tech.
Cambia is led by senior technology executives whose backgrounds are cloud platforms, architecture, and engineering leadership — the disciplines that decide what an environment costs.
Engagements are not sold by one person and delivered by another. The person who reviews your architecture is the person who writes the findings and sits in the readout with your engineering and finance teams.
How we engage
- Vendor-neutral — we do not resell cloud capacity or take vendor commissions
- Read-only, scoped, and time-bound access, under your NDA
- Fixed-scope assessment with no obligation to implement anything
- Findings you own, whether or not we do the work
Reviews the architecture behind the bill
Billing data tells you what a resource cost, not why the system was built to need it.
Recommendations that survive contact with production
Advice that ignores headroom, failure domains, and compliance is not cheaper — it is someone else's incident.
Speaks to both sides of the table
The findings have to hold up in a staff engineer's review and in a CFO's budget conversation.
Objections, answered
The questions worth asking before a first call.
If something here is a dealbreaker, better to know now than after a meeting.
Next step
Find out what your cloud bill should cost.
Book a Cloud Cost Assessment and get a prioritized, costed view of the savings available in your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment — and exactly what it takes to capture them.
No obligation, no cloud reselling, no commission from any vendor.