Cloud Enablement
Cloud Cost Optimization and FinOps Services
Gain full visibility into cloud spend, remove waste, buy capacity smarter and build a FinOps culture where engineering, finance and business share responsibility for cost.
Spend Less on the Cloud and Get More from It
Cloud bills are complex. Thousands of line items across compute, storage, data transfer, managed services and licenses change every hour as teams deploy and scale. Without clear ownership, resources are left running after projects end, instances are sized for peaks that never come, and discount programs go unused or are purchased in the wrong shape. Finance sees the total rise each month but cannot tell which product, team or customer is driving it.
Hanoi Technology applies FinOps, the practice promoted by the FinOps Foundation, to bring engineering, finance and business together around cloud value. Following its iterative Inform, Optimize and Operate phases, we make spend visible and allocated, identify and implement savings, manage commitments such as Savings Plans and reservations, and embed cost into architecture and engineering decisions. The goal is not merely a smaller bill but better unit economics as you grow.
The Challenge
Why Cloud Costs Get Out of Control
Common reasons spend grows faster than the value it delivers.
No Cost Visibility or Ownership
Without consistent tagging and allocation, spend cannot be attributed to teams or products. When nobody owns a cost, nobody manages it.
Over-Provisioned and Idle Resources
Instances, databases and clusters sized for worst-case loads run at low utilization. Development environments and forgotten test resources run around the clock.
Missed or Mismatched Discounts
Commitment-based discounts can significantly lower compute prices, but buying too little wastes savings and buying too much or the wrong type locks in unused spend.
Architecture-Driven Costs
Expensive data transfer patterns, chatty services, excessive logging and unsuitable storage tiers create costs that rightsizing alone cannot remove.
Business Value
What FinOps Delivers
Immediate Savings
Quick wins such as removing idle resources, scheduling non-production environments and rightsizing deliver measurable reductions within weeks.
Spend Allocated to Owners
Tagging, account structure and showback reports show every team and product exactly what it spends and why.
Better Unit Economics
Metrics such as cost per customer, transaction or order show whether efficiency is improving as the business grows.
Accurate Forecasting and Budgets
Usage-based forecasts and budget alerts reduce surprises for finance and support better planning.
Optimized Commitments
A managed commitment portfolio maximizes discount coverage while limiting the risk of paying for unused capacity.
Cost-Aware Engineering Culture
Engineers see the cost impact of their designs and changes, and optimization becomes part of everyday work rather than an annual exercise.
Cost Is an Engineering Metric
Performance and reliability are tracked on dashboards and discussed in every sprint; cost deserves the same treatment. When engineers see spend next to latency and errors, they make smarter trade-offs without needing a separate cost police.
Our Services
Hanoi Technology’s Cloud Cost Optimization Services
From a one-time savings assessment to an ongoing managed FinOps practice.
Cloud Cost Assessment
We analyze billing and usage data across accounts to quantify waste, discount coverage and optimization opportunities, ranked by savings and effort.
- Savings opportunity report
- Quick-win list
- Effort and risk estimates
Cost Visibility and Allocation
We implement tagging standards, account structures, cost allocation rules and dashboards for showback or chargeback.
- Tagging policy and enforcement
- Cost allocation model
- FinOps dashboards
Rightsizing and Waste Removal
We rightsize compute, databases and storage, schedule non-production environments and clean up idle and orphaned resources safely.
- Rightsizing changes
- Scheduling automation
- Cleanup reports
Commitment and Rate Optimization
We design and manage Savings Plans, reserved capacity and committed use discounts, and evaluate spot or preemptible capacity where suitable.
- Commitment strategy
- Coverage and utilization tracking
- Spot adoption plan
Architecture Cost Optimization
We redesign costly patterns, such as data transfer, storage tiering, logging volumes and container density, for lasting savings.
- Architecture cost review
- Optimization designs
- Implemented changes
FinOps Practice and Managed Service
We establish FinOps roles, processes, budgets, anomaly alerts and reviews, and can run the practice for you on an ongoing basis.
- FinOps operating model
- Anomaly detection
- Monthly cost reviews
Our Approach
Our FinOps Approach
An iterative cycle based on the FinOps Foundation’s Inform, Optimize and Operate phases.
- 01
Baseline and Inform
We collect billing and usage data, establish a cost baseline, fix tagging gaps and build dashboards that attribute spend to owners.
Deliverables: Cost baseline · Allocation dashboards
- 02
Identify Opportunities
We analyze utilization, pricing and architecture to produce a prioritized backlog of savings with estimated impact and risk.
Deliverables: Optimization backlog · Savings forecast
- 03
Optimize Usage and Rates
We implement quick wins, rightsize resources, schedule environments and adjust commitments, validating performance after each change.
Deliverables: Implemented savings · Commitment portfolio
- 04
Operate and Govern
We set budgets, anomaly alerts, policies and review cadences, and introduce unit cost metrics for products and services.
Deliverables: Budgets and alerts · Unit cost metrics
- 05
Embed and Improve
We train teams, add cost checks to design reviews and pipelines, and repeat the cycle as usage and pricing change.
Deliverables: Training sessions · Quarterly FinOps review
Use Cases
Cloud Cost Optimization Scenarios
Typical situations that lead clients to FinOps.
Post-Migration Cost Shock
After a lift-and-shift migration, monthly cloud costs exceed the original estimate. Rightsizing and commitments bring spend back in line with the business case.
SaaS Unit Economics
A SaaS company wants to understand cloud cost per customer and tier. Allocation and unit metrics reveal unprofitable usage patterns and guide pricing decisions.
Non-Production Environment Sprawl
Dozens of development and test environments run continuously. Scheduling and ephemeral environments cut their cost substantially.
Kubernetes Cost Allocation
A shared cluster hosts many teams, and nobody knows who uses what. Namespace-level allocation and rightsizing of requests improve density and accountability.
Data Platform Spend Control
Analytics and data warehouse costs rise as more users run queries. Workload management, auto-suspend and storage tiering control spend without blocking users.
AI and GPU Cost Management
Generative AI experiments drive rapid growth in GPU and model usage fees. Budgets, routing and capacity planning keep AI spend tied to value.
Technology
FinOps Tools We Work With
Native cost management tools and third-party platforms, selected for your environment.
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Cost and Usage Reports
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- Azure Cost Management
- Azure Advisor
- Google Cloud Billing
- Google Cloud Recommender
- FOCUS specification
- Kubecost
- OpenCost
- CloudZero
- Apptio Cloudability
- Infracost
- Power BI
- Terraform
Platforms
Deliver Cloud Cost Optimization on Your Preferred Platform
- AWSBuild, migrate and run data and AI workloads on Amazon Web Services.Explore
- Microsoft AzureModernize data, analytics and AI within your Azure tenant.Explore
- Google CloudBigQuery, Looker and Vertex AI for data-driven organizations.Explore
- DatabricksUnified lakehouse for data engineering, analytics and AI.Explore
- SnowflakeElastic cloud data platform for analytics and data sharing.Explore
Why Hanoi Technology
Why Organizations Choose Hanoi Technology
Senior, Cross-Functional Teams
Strategy, data, AI, cloud and engineering specialists work as one team, so nothing is lost between hand-offs.
Proven Delivery
More than 50 projects delivered for clients in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Radical Transparency
A written update every week and a demo of working software every sprint, so you always know where things stand.
Cost-Effective Global Delivery
Experienced engineers from our Hanoi delivery hub, with working-hour overlap for every major time zone.
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Find Out How Much You Could Save
Book a free consultation to discuss your cloud spend and goals. We will explain how a cost assessment works and the kinds of savings it typically uncovers.
Cloud Cost Optimization FAQ
How much can we save with cloud cost optimization?
Savings vary widely with how mature your current practices are. Environments that have never been optimized usually contain significant waste in idle resources, oversized instances and unused discounts, while well-managed estates offer smaller but still meaningful gains through architecture and commitment tuning. Rather than quote a generic percentage, we analyze your billing and usage data in the assessment and give you a specific, itemized savings estimate.
What is FinOps?
FinOps is an operational framework and cultural practice that helps organizations get the most business value from cloud spending by bringing engineering, finance and business teams together. The FinOps Foundation describes an iterative lifecycle of Inform, which creates visibility and allocation; Optimize, which improves usage and rates; and Operate, which embeds governance and continuous improvement. It focuses on informed trade-offs rather than simply cutting costs.
Will optimization affect performance or reliability?
Not if done carefully. We base rightsizing on actual utilization data over representative periods, including peaks, and leave headroom for growth. Changes are tested in non-production first where possible, applied in controlled stages and monitored afterward. Reliability-critical components keep the redundancy they need. Where a saving would introduce risk, we explain the trade-off and let you decide.
How do Savings Plans and reservations work?
Cloud providers offer lower prices in exchange for committing to a level of usage or spend for one or three years, such as AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, Azure reservations and savings plans, and Google Cloud committed use discounts. The challenge is sizing and shaping commitments to match stable usage without overcommitting. We model your usage, recommend a layered commitment portfolio and track coverage and utilization over time.
How long does a cost assessment take?
A cost assessment typically takes two to four weeks, depending on the number of accounts and services. We need read-only access to billing and usage data, plus conversations with the teams who own major workloads. Many quick wins can be implemented during or immediately after the assessment, so savings often start before the full report is delivered.
Do you charge a percentage of savings?
We generally prefer transparent fixed fees or time-and-materials pricing, because percentage-of-savings models can create incentives that do not align with your long-term interests, such as favoring large commitments over architecture improvements. For managed FinOps services we offer a fixed monthly fee based on scope. We are happy to discuss the model that best suits your procurement requirements.