FinOps Services & Training

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We help organizations cut cloud costs, build FinOps maturity, and upskill their teams β€” 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 β€” all designed to deliver measurable savings.

Assessment Β· FREE

FinOps Maturity Assessment

FREE Β· 7 minutes Β· 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 β€” all instantly, all free.

Ideal for: Anyone curious about their FinOps maturity Β· 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 β€” AWS, Azure, GCP, multi-cloud
  • No credit card Β· Results in your browser instantly
Backed by: CloudAIP's TechStar FinOps framework β€” based on industry-recognized maturity models
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AI-powered Β· $1,000

FinOps AI Cost Assessment

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

The free assessment scores your practices. This package analyzes your actual AWS spend with Claude Sonnet AI and delivers a 30-page roadmap with ranked savings opportunities, $-impact estimates, and a 1-hour debrief β€” all in 48 hours.

Ideal for: Cloud spend $10K–$100K/mo Β· One-shot deep dive

  • 30-page AI-generated PDF report (Claude Sonnet 4.6)
  • Top 10 cost drivers with $ and % of total spend
  • Idle resource detection Β· RI/SP recommendations Β· storage tiering
  • Network, tagging hygiene, and forecast analysis
  • Excel line-item file with prioritized action plan
  • Interactive HTML dashboard you can share internally
  • 1-hour live debrief call + 30 days email support
πŸŽ‰ Launch Special: $750 for the first 10 customers
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Ongoing FinOps Engagements

Recurring partnerships for continuous savings, governance, and managed practice β€” three flexible engagement models.

Support Β· Entry tier

FinOps Support Lite

Starts at $1,500 / month Β· 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 β€” available when you need us.

Ideal for: Cloud spend $10K–$50K/month Β· 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 Β· Cancel anytime
Typical outcome: 10–20% cost reduction in the first 90 days
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Optimize Β· Most popular

FinOps Cost Optimizer

From $12,000 Β· 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 Β· 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 Β· Enterprise

FinOps as a Service

From $6,500 / month retainer

Fully managed FinOps practice β€” 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 Β· Growing platforms Β· 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 Β· 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 reviewβœ“ Deep-diveβœ“ Continuous
Commitment strategy (RI/SP)Advisoryβœ“ One-time planβœ“ Managed end-to-end
Tagging governanceReviewβœ“ Fix & documentβœ“ Enforced via policy
Showback / Chargebackβ€”Design onlyβœ“ Full implementation
DashboardsMonthly report (PDF)Built & handed overβœ“ Live + maintained
Anomaly alertsβœ“ Set upβœ“ Set upβœ“ Monitored 24/5
Executive reportingβ€”Final presentationβœ“ Monthly + board-ready
Dedicated engineerβ€”Project teamβœ“ 1 or more FTE
Typical savings10–20%20–35%25–40% sustained
Support Lite Entry tier Β· monthly retainer

FinOps Support Lite β€” 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 β€” cancel anytime

What you get each month

πŸ“Š 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.

πŸ’¬ On-demand support

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

πŸ“‹ 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 Β· one-time project

FinOps Cost Optimizer β€” 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 Β· WEEK 1
Discovery & Access

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

PHASE 2 Β· WEEKS 2–3
Deep-dive Audit

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

PHASE 3 Β· WEEKS 3–5
Strategy & Quantification

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

PHASE 4 Β· 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

πŸ’» Compute
  • EC2/VM rightsizing (14-day ML analysis)
  • Graviton / ARM migration candidates
  • Spot Instance opportunities
  • Auto-scaling tuning
πŸ’Ύ Storage
  • S3/Blob tier migration (Standard β†’ IA / Cool)
  • Glacier / Archive lifecycle policies
  • EBS gp2 β†’ gp3 migration (20% savings)
  • Unattached volumes & old snapshots cleanup
πŸ”— Network
  • Data transfer optimization (cross-region, internet)
  • NAT Gateway alternatives
  • VPC endpoints for AWS services
  • CloudFront / CDN opportunities
πŸ—„οΈ Databases
  • RDS Reserved Instances strategy
  • Aurora Serverless vs provisioned analysis
  • Multi-AZ vs single-AZ per environment
  • Backup retention tuning
πŸ’° 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
πŸ›οΈ 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 Β· full managed practice

FinOps as a Service β€” 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 β€” embedded, accountable, reporting to your CFO or VP Engineering.

The team you get

  • 1 dedicated FinOps Engineer β€” day-to-day owner (can scale to 2+ for larger spend)
  • FinOps Lead β€” strategy, executive reviews (fractional)
  • Cloud-specific experts β€” 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 Β· real-time budget monitoring Β· async support in Slack

Weekly

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

Monthly

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

Quarterly

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

What we run for you

πŸŽ›οΈ Cost visibility

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

πŸ’³ Showback / Chargeback

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

🎯 Commitment portfolio

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

🚨 Anomaly response

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

πŸ›οΈ Governance

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

πŸ“ˆ Forecasting

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

πŸŽ“ Team enablement

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

πŸ“ Executive reporting

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

πŸ”„ Continuous optimization

Weekly waste sweeps Β· right-sizing cadence Β· storage tier reviews Β· data-transfer audits Β· 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 β€” 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 Β· SLAs Β· dedicated channel

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

Not sure which tier fits? Let's talk β€” 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 β€” upskill as a student, or switch careers with confidence.

Ignite Β· 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 Β· 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 Β· Azure Β· GCP
CertifiedFinOps & AWS experts
FlexibleLite to fully managed

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