FinOps
What can USU FinOps do for you?
Maximize the Value of Your Cloud Investments:
With USU FinOps, you get real-time visibility into cloud consumption, allowing you to right-size resources, cut waste, and optimize spending—reducing costs by up to 30%. By combining a FinOps-certified tool with comprehensive enterprise support, we provide you with a worry-free cloud cost management solution that helps you:
✔ Track budgets and forecast spend with precision
✔ Allocate costs efficiently across teams and projects
✔ Optimize usage to prevent overcapacity and boost efficiency
Take control of your cloud costs—without sacrificing performance.
Your benefits
Cloud operations, enhanced and under control
Managing cloud spend with one click
Build customizable dashboards and centralize opportunities for optimization across key resource elements, such as tags, teams, environments, and more
Timely data-driven decision-making
Use real-time data insights to make informed decisions, adjust forecasts, track budgets, or optimize resource usage as needed.
Shared cost reallocation
Utilize virtual tagging which facilitates cloud spend breakdowns, and allowing for a more refined reallocation of shared expenses based on consumption.
Achieving multi-cloud visibility
Comprehensive Cloud visibility at your fingertips:
- Complete visibility in multi-cloud environment, enabling consolidated reporting and dashboards.
- Integrate with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and OCI but also Kubernetes, Datadog, Databricks, Snowflake and more to ensure visibility over all costs.
Accurate Cost Allocation
Understand spending patterns and allocate costs accurately:
- 100% allocation of all costs including shared costs such as support costs, data lakes, or shared resources.
- Build complex business rules easily with Virtual Tags.
- K8s cost allocation down to the Pod level.
- Identify and clean resources incorrectly tagged.
- Enable internal chargeback processes.
Showback & Chargeback
Raise awareness and make cloud users accountable for their own usage:
- Enable data-driven decisions with insights tailored to the different stakeholders.
- Provide information to relevant teams through Email, Teams, Slack and other integrations.
- Role-based access to an interactive easy-to-use portal.
Cloud cost optimization
Turn Cloud spend into business growth:
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs through pricing models.
- Eliminate waste (e.g. unused resources).
- Identify cost savings opportunities (e.g. reserved instances, savings plans, commitments, rightsizing, or autoscaling).
- Track and share achieved savings and key KPIs.
Fully managed services and dedicated support
Get our in-house team of certified FinOps experts on top of your cloud cost management use cases.
Service initiation & implementation support
USU sets up and configures your FinOps solution in under four weeks. We don’t just hand you a user guide—we guide you to success. Our experts help you configure dashboards, reports, workflows, virtual tags, budgets, and more, ensuring you achieve your business goals with confidence.
Regular review meetings with our FinOps experts
In addition to the reports and insights available in the USU FinOps solution, you'll have regular review meetings—at least once a month—with our certified FinOps experts. These sessions help align on optimization recommendations and identify areas for improvement. Start small and scale as your FinOps maturity grows. Over time, you'll be able to track more detailed KPIs, reduce unallocated costs, and improve the accuracy of your unit economics.
Ongoing data quality management
USU monitors imports and interfaces, proactively resolving issues to ensure reliable FinOps reporting. You can trust that your data is accurate and your FinOps services run smoothly.
Expert FinOps support—whenever you need it
Need help configuring a dashboard for your cloud engineers? Not sure how to add new telemetry data? Having trouble with your forecasts? Contact your trusted USU team for expert advice—our certified FinOps specialists are here to help in multiple languages.
Resources
FAQ
Cloud Cost Management vs. FinOps - where's the difference?
Cloud cost management (CCM) is all about monitoring, measuring, and optimizing cloud ROI. The goal? Achieve full visibility into cloud costs while keeping services running smoothly—and spending only what’s necessary. FinOps takes this a step further. While cost savings are important, FinOps focuses on the bigger picture—analyzing how cloud costs impact every department and ensuring organizations get the most value from their investments.
What do CCM and FinOps have in common?
That’s why both CCM and FinOps prioritize efficiency. A key best practice? Shutting down idle compute instances and eliminating those that don’t drive business value. This simple step can lead to significant savings—without sacrificing performance.
What is cloud spend management?
Cloud spend management involves the processes and tools used to monitor, analyze, and control the costs associated with cloud computing. It aims to ensure that cloud resources are utilized efficiently, helping organizations avoid overspending while maximizing cloud investments.
Why is cloud cost management so difficult?
Cloud cost management is challenging due to the complexity and dynamic nature of cloud environments. The decentralized nature of cloud resource provisioning can lead to shadow IT and unmonitored costs.
Why do we need cloud cost optimization?
Cloud cost optimization is essential for ensuring that cloud investments are aligned with business value and objectives.