FinOps Services & Training

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We help organizations cut cloud costs, build FinOps maturity, and upskill their teams — from on-demand support to fully managed FinOps and industry-recognized certification training.

FinOps Services

From a free maturity check to fully managed FinOps, pick the engagement that matches your stage and cloud spend. Five offerings — all designed to deliver measurable savings.

Assessment · FREE

FinOps Maturity Assessment

FREE · 7 minutes · Instant report

Where does your organization sit on the FinOps maturity curve? Take our 30-question, cloud-agnostic assessment across 6 domains and get a personalized maturity score, radar chart, and 30-day quick-win plan — all instantly, all free.

Ideal for: Anyone curious about their FinOps maturity · No commitment

  • 30 questions across 6 domains (Governance, Visibility, Allocation, Optimization, Commitments, Culture)
  • Weighted maturity score (Crawl / Walk / Run / Fly)
  • Per-domain radar chart visualization
  • Top 8 prioritized 30-day quick wins with $-impact estimates
  • Cloud-agnostic — AWS, Azure, GCP, multi-cloud
  • No credit card · Results in your browser instantly
Backed by: CloudAIP's TechStar FinOps framework — based on industry-recognized maturity models
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AI-FinOps · $1,000

AI Workload Cost Assessment

$1,000 USD · one-time · 48-hour delivery

Cut your AI & LLM cloud bill — Bedrock, SageMaker, GPU EC2, Inferentia. We audit your AI workloads, attribute spend to the right model / feature / team, and ship ranked recommendations to reduce $/token, $/inference, and $/user-query.

Ideal for: Teams running Bedrock, SageMaker, or GPU workloads with $5K+/mo AI spend

  • Per-model cost breakdown — Claude Haiku/Sonnet/Opus, Llama, Titan, Mistral
  • Model selection audit — where you're using Sonnet but Haiku would do (often 10–20× cheaper)
  • $/token & $/inference attribution by feature, team, or product line
  • Bedrock provisioned-throughput vs on-demand ROI analysis
  • GPU rightsizing — utilization, idle detection, spot/Inferentia migration candidates
  • Prompt optimization — caching, batching, context compression savings
  • RAG vs fine-tune cost trade-off review for your top use cases
  • SageMaker endpoint rightsizing & multi-model packing
  • 30-page report · Excel attribution model · 1-hour live debrief · 30-day support
🎉 Launch Special: $750 for the first 10 customers
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Ongoing FinOps Engagements

Recurring partnerships for continuous savings, governance, and managed practice — three flexible engagement models.

Support · Entry tier

FinOps Support Lite

Starts at $1,500 / month · 10 hrs

On-demand FinOps expertise for teams that need expert guidance without the overhead of a full engagement. We become an extension of your team — available when you need us.

Ideal for: Cloud spend $10K–$50K/month · Lean engineering teams

  • 10 hours of certified FinOps expert time monthly
  • Monthly cost review meeting (1 hour)
  • Anomaly & waste alerts configured on your account
  • Priority Slack / email support (24-hour response)
  • Monthly savings report with quick-win recommendations
  • Ad-hoc architecture & commitment advice
  • Tagging strategy review & compliance check
  • No long-term contract · Cancel anytime
Typical outcome: 10–20% cost reduction in the first 90 days
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Optimize · Most popular

FinOps Cost Optimizer

From $12,000 · 4–8 week project

Deep-dive engagement to identify, quantify, and implement cost savings across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We audit your entire cloud estate and leave behind a roadmap your team can execute.

Ideal for: Cloud spend $50K–$500K/month · One-time savings push

  • Full cloud cost audit across all accounts/subscriptions
  • Rightsizing analysis for compute, storage, databases
  • Reserved Instance & Savings Plan purchase strategy
  • Tagging taxonomy & cost-allocation fixes
  • Storage-tier & lifecycle-policy optimization
  • Data-transfer & network cost reduction
  • Idle / orphaned resource cleanup plan
  • 90-day implementation roadmap with effort estimates
  • Executive presentation of findings & ROI
Typical outcome: 20–35% savings identified, 15–25% realized within 90 days
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Managed · Enterprise

FinOps as a Service

From $6,500 / month retainer

Fully managed FinOps practice — we run the cost governance, anomaly response, commitment strategy, and reporting so your engineering teams can focus on building.

Ideal for: Cloud spend $100K+/month · Growing platforms · Pre-IPO / post-Series B

  • Dedicated FinOps engineer assigned to your account
  • Weekly sync with engineering leads
  • Showback & chargeback setup (cost attribution to teams)
  • KPI dashboards (unit economics, waste %, forecast accuracy)
  • Executive monthly review + board-ready reports
  • Commitment portfolio managed end-to-end (RI/SP renewals, exchanges)
  • Real-time anomaly detection & incident response
  • Tagging governance & policy enforcement (AWS Config / Azure Policy)
  • Quarterly architecture cost reviews
  • FinOps training for your engineers included
Typical outcome: Mature FinOps practice (Run stage) in 90 days · 25–40% savings sustained year-on-year
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Compare at a glance

  Support Lite Cost Optimizer FinOps as a Service
Engagement typeMonthly retainerOne-time projectOngoing retainer
Starting price$1,500/mo$12,000 project$6,500/mo
Time commitment10 hrs/month4–8 weeks full engagementDedicated FTE equivalent
Ideal cloud spend$10K–$50K/mo$50K–$500K/mo$100K+/mo
Cost auditMonthly review✓ Deep-dive✓ Continuous
Commitment strategy (RI/SP)Advisory✓ One-time plan✓ Managed end-to-end
Tagging governanceReview✓ Fix & document✓ Enforced via policy
Showback / ChargebackDesign only✓ Full implementation
DashboardsMonthly report (PDF)Built & handed over✓ Live + maintained
Anomaly alerts✓ Set up✓ Set up✓ Monitored 24/5
Executive reportingFinal presentation✓ Monthly + board-ready
Dedicated engineerProject team✓ 1 or more FTE
Typical savings10–20%20–35%25–40% sustained
Support Lite Entry tier · monthly retainer

FinOps Support Lite — full scope

Who it's for

Small-to-mid engineering teams running on AWS / Azure / GCP with monthly cloud spend between $10K and $50K. You want expert FinOps guidance but don't have the spend or team size to justify a full engagement.

Perfect as an entry point before scaling to the Optimizer or Managed tier.

How it works

  • Kick-off call (week 1): baseline assessment
  • Access setup: read-only IAM role to your cloud accounts
  • Monthly cadence: review + async support + report
  • Hours pool: use in 30-min blocks anytime
  • Shared Slack channel with your team
  • Month-to-month contract — cancel anytime

What you get each month

📊 Cost review (1 hr)

We walk through last month's bill, surface waste, identify optimization opportunities, and prioritize action items for your team.

🚨 Alerts & monitoring

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection + Azure Advisor rules configured on your account. We get the same alerts and triage them with you.

💬 On-demand support

Ping us in Slack or email for architecture questions, commitment purchase reviews, tagging strategy, budget threshold advice.

📋 Savings report

PDF report: MoM trend, top 5 services, savings realized, recommendations implemented, upcoming focus areas.

🏷️ Tagging hygiene

Quarterly tagging compliance review with a punch-list of resources that need fixing.

🎯 Quick-win tracker

Shared Notion/Sheet tracking every recommendation with status, estimated impact, owner, and due date.

Cost Optimizer Most popular · one-time project

FinOps Cost Optimizer — full scope

Who it's for

Teams with monthly cloud spend between $50K and $500K who want a comprehensive one-time push to identify and realize savings, before deciding whether ongoing FinOps is needed.

Common triggers: cloud bill growing faster than revenue, pre-IPO audit, board asking tough questions, new CFO.

What you walk away with

  • Executive findings deck (for CFO/board)
  • 90-day implementation roadmap with owners
  • Commitment purchase plan (RI/SP quantities, terms)
  • Tagging taxonomy spec your team can enforce
  • Cost dashboards (QuickSight / Power BI / Grafana)
  • List of 50–150 specific savings actions, quantified

Our 4-phase process

PHASE 1 · WEEK 1
Discovery & Access

Kick-off workshop, access provisioning (read-only), CUR + Cost Export setup, baseline metrics captured.

PHASE 2 · WEEKS 2–3
Deep-dive Audit

Compute right-sizing, storage tiers, data transfer, idle resources, DB optimization, commitment coverage analysis.

PHASE 3 · WEEKS 3–5
Strategy & Quantification

Savings modelled with confidence levels. Tagging taxonomy. Commitment mix. Governance policies drafted.

PHASE 4 · WEEKS 5–8
Implementation & Handover

Side-by-side with your team: execute top savings, commit RI/SP purchases, deploy dashboards, document runbooks.

Detailed deliverables by area

💻 Compute
  • EC2/VM rightsizing (14-day ML analysis)
  • Graviton / ARM migration candidates
  • Spot Instance opportunities
  • Auto-scaling tuning
💾 Storage
  • S3/Blob tier migration (Standard → IA / Cool)
  • Glacier / Archive lifecycle policies
  • EBS gp2 → gp3 migration (20% savings)
  • Unattached volumes & old snapshots cleanup
🔗 Network
  • Data transfer optimization (cross-region, internet)
  • NAT Gateway alternatives
  • VPC endpoints for AWS services
  • CloudFront / CDN opportunities
🗄️ Databases
  • RDS Reserved Instances strategy
  • Aurora Serverless vs provisioned analysis
  • Multi-AZ vs single-AZ per environment
  • Backup retention tuning
💰 Commitments
  • Compute Savings Plans at 60–70% baseline
  • EC2 Instance SPs for stable workloads
  • Azure Reservations + Hybrid Benefit
  • 1-year vs 3-year term decision matrix
🏛️ Governance
  • 6-tag minimum taxonomy specification
  • AWS Config / Azure Policy rules
  • SCPs for expensive instance types
  • Budget thresholds & automated actions
FinOps as a Service Enterprise · full managed practice

FinOps as a Service — full scope

Who it's for

Organizations with cloud spend of $100K/month or more who need a mature FinOps practice but can't or don't want to hire a full in-house team.

Best fit: Series B+ startups, scale-ups, regulated enterprises, companies preparing for IPO, platforms where cloud is a major COGS line.

We effectively become your FinOps team — embedded, accountable, reporting to your CFO or VP Engineering.

The team you get

  • 1 dedicated FinOps Engineer — day-to-day owner (can scale to 2+ for larger spend)
  • FinOps Lead — strategy, executive reviews (fractional)
  • Cloud-specific experts — AWS / Azure / GCP deep bench on call
  • Integrated into your Slack, Jira, calendar, Confluence
  • On-call for anomaly response during business hours

Operating rhythm

Daily

Anomaly triage · real-time budget monitoring · async support in Slack

Weekly

Sync with eng leads (30 min) · cost trend review · waste punch-list

Monthly

Executive review · budget vs actual · commitment utilization · next-month forecast

Quarterly

Architecture cost review · commitment renewals · unit-economics deep dive · board-ready deck

What we run for you

🎛️ Cost visibility

CUR 2.0 + Athena pipeline · QuickSight dashboards · Power BI for Azure · FOCUS-normalized multi-cloud views · per-team, per-service, per-env breakdowns.

💳 Showback / Chargeback

Every dollar attributed to a team/cost center · monthly invoices per team · shared-cost allocation rules · unit economics per customer or feature.

🎯 Commitment portfolio

We purchase, exchange, and renew RI/SP on your behalf · layered strategy (Compute SP + EC2 SP + Spot) · utilization kept >95%.

🚨 Anomaly response

ML-based alerts · triaged within 2 hours during business hours · root cause + fix recommendation · post-incident review.

🏛️ Governance

Tagging enforcement via Config/Policy · SCPs for non-prod cost controls · budget alerts with auto-actions · quarterly policy reviews.

📈 Forecasting

±10% forecast accuracy · monthly vs quarterly vs annual planning · scenario modelling (new product launch, migration, etc.).

🎓 Team enablement

Quarterly FinOps training for your engineers · cost-aware architecture reviews · reading-list + office hours for your devs.

📝 Executive reporting

Monthly CFO/board-ready deck · cost efficiency KPIs · unit economics trend · savings realized vs. target.

🔄 Continuous optimization

Weekly waste sweeps · right-sizing cadence · storage tier reviews · data-transfer audits · FinOps Foundation framework alignment.

Pricing model

Monthly retainer starting at $6,500/month for cloud spend up to $250K/mo. Scales with spend under management — roughly 2–4% of cloud spend for the managed practice.

Up to $250K/mo spend
$6,500/mo
1 FTE engineer + fractional lead
$250K–$1M/mo spend
$14,000/mo
2 FTEs + dedicated lead
$1M+/mo spend
Custom
Full team · SLAs · dedicated channel

Typical ROI: 8–15× return on FinOps fees within the first year, based on savings realized.

Not sure which tier fits? Let's talk — we'll recommend the right starting point based on your spend and goals.

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Training & Certification

Two tracks built for where you are in your journey — upskill as a student, or switch careers with confidence.

Ignite · For Students

Ignite Track

Pure training built for students and early-career learners who want to upskill in FinOps and cloud AI fundamentals.

  • Core FinOps & cloud concepts
  • Hands-on labs & exercises
  • Self-paced + live cohorts
  • Certificate of completion
  • Student-friendly pricing
Transformate · Career Switch

Transformate Track

End-to-end program for working professionals looking to switch careers into FinOps or cloud AI roles.

  • Advanced FinOps & AWS AI curriculum
  • Real-world capstone projects
  • Certification exam prep (AWS AI Practitioner)
  • Mock interviews & resume review
  • Job placement assistance

Courses offered in both tracks

Course

FinOps Training

Practical, role-based FinOps curriculum covering principles, tooling, and real-world case studies across cloud providers.

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Course

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Structured bootcamp to prepare for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam with hands-on labs and practice tests.

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Why CloudAIP

We combine deep cloud expertise with a practical, outcomes-first approach.

30%+Average cost reduction
Multi-cloudAWS · Azure · GCP
CertifiedFinOps & AWS experts
FlexibleLite to fully managed

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