Cloud & FinOps audit
Regain technical, economic and contractual control of the cloud.
The audit connects workload placement, architecture, security, consumption, contracts and exit to distinguish one-off savings from lasting control.
Evidence chainObserve · qualify · prioritise
- Scope
- Findings
- Risks
- Trajectory
The decision point
Optimising the cloud requires understanding who consumes, why, and with what exit capability.
The audit analyses the workloads and the common foundations, reconciles billing with responsibilities, then verifies capacity commitments, configurations, observability and proprietary choices. Savings are assessed together with their impact on risk and operations.
Working scope
The dimensions examined together.
The framing avoids treating separately subjects that condition one another. The final scope remains adapted to the organisation and its priorities.
- Account organisation and landing zones
- Allocation, budgets and consumption anomalies
- Sizing, elasticity and commitments
- Security, identities and observability
- Licences, support and operating costs
- Dependencies, sovereignty and reversibility
A usable result
Savings that do not displace the risk.
The read-out separates quick wins, architecture corrections and contractual decisions. It attributes consumption to the teams and services able to arbitrate and sustain the improvement.
- 01Map of accounts, workloads and responsibilities
- 02Consumption analysis and anomalies
- 03Architecture, security and dependency risks
- 04FinOps backlog, governance and reversibility
Method
An engagement that stays readable from scope to decision.
Scope
Fix the entities, services, assets, periods and frameworks actually examined.
Observe
Cross-check interviews, documents, configurations and operational results without relying on declarations alone.
Prioritise
Connect each finding to its business impact, its likelihood and the controls already in place.
Decide
Produce a costed trajectory with owners, deadlines, dependencies and expected evidence.
Point of vigilance
What the engagement must make explicit.
A bill reduction obtained through duration commitments or by removing redundancy can increase dependency or continuity risk. Every action must be assessed at total cost.
The first conversation verifies the context, the level of urgency, the stakeholders and the output genuinely expected.
Frame this engagement See Build & operate Start with a guided assessmentFirst conversation
Let’s discuss the next point of control for your information system.
A project to frame, operations to take over, compliance to demonstrate? Describe the context. You will get a first considered reading — not a generic brochure.