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CLOUD & FINOPS


Cloud, SaaS
and AI costs are growing. Is the value?

As cloud, SaaS and AI scale across your business, technology cost is rising faster than the value it returns.

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Simplify complexity, speed delivery and optimise costs​

Cloud was meant to deliver agility. For most organisations, it's also delivering bill shock

An estimated 29% of cloud spend is wasted (Flexera, 2026) — the first increase in five years, driven in part by unmanaged AI workloads landing on the bill. Forecasts drift. Tags go missing. Reservations expire unused. AI workloads land on the bill before anyone signed off the business case.

Tooling alone won't fix it. Neither will a one-off optimisation sprint. FinOps only works when governance, technical controls and the right operational model are in place.

29%

of cloud spend is wasted — the first
increase in five years

85%

of organisations say managing cloud
spend is their top challenge

81%

are now running generative AI in the cloud — adding cost faster than governance can keep up

Outcomes you can expect

 

Clarity
A continuously refreshed view of your cloud environment, mapped to the business owners who can act on it.

Captured savings
Right-sizing, commitment management and waste elimination. We provide recommendations that are validated, prioritised and tracked.

FinOps maturity
A structured uplift across the FinOps Foundation framework, so the discipline sticks long after the engagement ends.

Control
Greater accountability across cloud, SaaS and AI spend, with the governance, guardrails and operating rhythm needed to manage cost.

The Insight FinOps Cycle

Six Disciplines. Once Practice. We deliver the full lifecycle, not a tool deployment dressed up as a strategy.


The FinOps Journey
1

Change Management & Adoption

Executive mandate, stakeholder alignment, FinOps personas.

2

FinOps Strategy

Target maturity, business case, value-stream model, success criteria.

3

KPIs & Governance

Policies, guardrails, allocation rules and the metrics that prove FinOps is working.

4

Organisational Structure

A cross-functional operating model with clear roles across delivery, engineering, architecture and commercial.

5

Architecture & Implementation

Platform tooling, infrastructure-as-code, tagging, RBAC and automation deployed for control at scale.

6

Ongoing Review & Managed Service

Continuous optimisation by Insight's Optimisation & Governance team.

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Our Key Partners

 

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Let’s do big things together.

Innovating is the only way to stay relevant in today’s uber-competitive market. Our unique approach and deep knowledge put you on the path to true innovation.

 

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