What We Deliver
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Infrastructure Audit
Comprehensive analysis of all deployed cloud resources to identify idle capacity, oversized instances, unused storage volumes, unattached IPs, and redundant network components.
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Application Portfolio Review
Workload-level cost attribution mapping to identify cost-intensive applications and architectural opportunities for right-sizing, reserved pricing, or managed service adoption.
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Security & Compliance Check
Validation that proposed cost optimisation changes do not introduce security misconfigurations, access control gaps, or violations of applicable compliance frameworks.
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Skills & Team Readiness
Assessment of internal FinOps maturity with targeted recommendations for tooling adoption, governance processes, tagging strategies, and cost accountability culture.
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Cost-Benefit & TCO Analysis
Side-by-side modelling of current versus optimised spend scenarios with projected ROI, payback period, and risk-adjusted savings estimates over 12 and 36 months.
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Cloud Strategy Recommendations
Actionable cost optimisation roadmap prioritised by financial impact, implementation complexity, and alignment with operational continuity and business growth objectives.
Deliverables
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Cloud spend analysis report with itemised waste identification and prioritised, impact-ranked savings opportunities by service category
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Resource right-sizing recommendations with estimated performance impact assessment and rollback procedure for each proposed change
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Cost governance policy framework including tagging taxonomy, budget threshold configuration, and chargeback/showback reporting structure
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FinOps maturity assessment scorecard with improvement roadmap and tooling recommendations aligned to your organisation's cloud operating model
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Monthly cost trend report tracking optimisation progress, realised savings vs. target, and forward spend forecast for the following quarter
WHO IS IT FOR — Cloud Resource & Cost Management:
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Finance and IT leadership in organisations where cloud costs appear as an uncontrolled, fast-growing operational line item with unclear attribution across teams or business units
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Cloud platform teams managing multi-account or multi-cloud environments without unified cost visibility, tagging discipline, or chargeback reporting capability
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Organisations past the migration phase now in optimisation mode — reducing the cost premium of lift-and-shift by right-sizing, adopting managed services, and eliminating idle resource spend
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Regulated businesses where cloud cost governance is also a compliance requirement — with audit-ready evidence of resource allocation decisions, spend approval workflows, and retention of financial records
Why Choose Lastcluster?
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FinOps governance frameworks with real accountability: budget ownership, tagging taxonomy, chargeback reporting, and automated spend anomaly detection — not a monthly PDF
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Average 30% cloud spend reduction identified in the first cost audit — with a remediation plan ranked by financial impact and implementation risk, not by what's easiest for us
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Cost governance as an ongoing managed service: monthly optimisation reviews, reserved capacity management, and proactive commitment tier adjustments that grow with your cloud
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