AWS Cost Management & FinOps
Control, optimise, and govern your AWS spend so every pound delivers maximum value.
How We Help
Take Control of Your AWS Spend with MakeCloud FinOps
AWS billing complexity grows quickly, sprawling accounts, dozens of services, and opaque pricing models make it difficult to understand where your money is going and whether you're getting value. MakeCloud's FinOps practice brings clarity, control, and continuous optimisation to your AWS spend.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, we combine deep platform knowledge with proven FinOps frameworks to help organisations of all sizes reduce waste and align cloud costs with business outcomes.
Cost Management Services
Our cost management services include:
- Cost Visibility & Reporting: Implement tagging strategies, cost allocation rules, and dashboards that give finance and engineering teams clear, real-time visibility into AWS spend.
- Waste Elimination: Identify and remove unused resources, orphaned volumes, idle load balancers, and over-provisioned instances that silently inflate your bill.
- Right-Sizing: Analyse utilisation data to recommend optimal instance types, storage tiers, and service configurations without impacting performance.
- Savings Plans & Reserved Instances: Model and implement commitment-based discounts that match your actual usage patterns for maximum savings.
- Architecture Optimisation: Redesign workloads to use cost-effective AWS services like Graviton instances, Spot Fleet, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, and serverless alternatives.
- FinOps Culture & Governance: Establish cost-aware engineering practices, budgets, alerts, and approval workflows that prevent overspend before it happens.
Why MakeCloud
Our Approach
AWS Certified Engineers
Our team holds multiple AWS certifications across architecture, security, DevOps, and more.
Proven Methodology
A structured delivery approach refined over hundreds of AWS projects, from startups to enterprise.
UK-Based Team
Work directly with our engineers — no offshore hand-offs, no language barriers, no timezone headaches.
Transparent Pricing
Clear, predictable costs with no hidden fees. You always know what you're paying for.
Security First
Every engagement is built on AWS security best practices, compliance frameworks, and zero-trust principles.
Rapid Delivery
We move fast without cutting corners. Most engagements see measurable results within weeks, not months.
What our clients say
“Quality AWS DevOps Engineers can be hard to find but quality is exactly what we found with MakeCloud. Their friendly and pragmatic approach made them a pleasure to work with, and I’d recommend them to anyone.”
“MakeCloud took AWS infrastructure and compliance off our plate, so our team of technical experts could focus on delivering great products for our clients.”
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner
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Book a free, no-obligation call with one of our AWS-certified engineers. We'll listen to your challenges, share honest advice, and only recommend next steps if we genuinely think we can help.
AWS Cost Management & FinOps FAQs
Answers to common questions about how MakeCloud helps you control and optimise your AWS spend.
What is FinOps and how does it help with AWS costs?
FinOps is the practice of bringing finance, engineering, and business teams together to manage cloud costs collaboratively. For AWS, this means improving cost visibility, aligning spend to business value, and continuously optimising usage and pricing so you only pay for what you actually need.
How quickly can we see savings on our AWS bill?
Most organisations start seeing meaningful savings within the first 4–6 weeks, with typical reductions of 20–40% within the first three months. Quick wins often come from eliminating waste, right-sizing over-provisioned resources, and applying the right Savings Plans or Reserved Instances.
Do you need access to our AWS accounts to optimise costs?
Yes, we usually require read-only access to your AWS accounts or billing data (via Cost and Usage Reports, Cost Explorer, or your existing tooling). This allows us to analyse your current spend, usage patterns, and tagging to provide accurate recommendations and implement changes with your approval.
Will cost optimisation impact performance or availability?
Our approach is to maintain or improve performance and availability while reducing costs. Right-sizing and architectural changes are always validated against your performance requirements, SLAs, and resilience needs, and we work closely with your engineering teams to ensure safe implementation.
Can you help us set up tagging and cost allocation from scratch?
Yes. We design and implement tagging strategies, cost allocation rules, and dashboards tailored to your organisation. This includes defining standards, rolling them out across accounts and teams, and setting up governance so tags remain consistent over time.
Are your AWS cost management services available via AWS MarketPlace?
Yes, as an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, MakeCloud is an approved AWS Cost Management and FinOps supplier on the AWS Marketplace. AWS cost management and FinOps services by MakeCloud are available on AWS MarketPlace here: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-daorr3hi2bg7e?sr=0-5&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa
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