UNPREDICTABLE
OpEx
Budget volatility
Cloud bills swing month to month. Reserved instances and savings plans help, but FinOps overhead grows faster than the savings it produces. The discount you negotiated last quarter is the contract you can't escape this one.
HOW VOLATILITY MANIFESTS
Bills that surprise the CFO
A bad query, a misconfigured autoscaling group, or a forgotten dev environment lands a five-figure variance on the monthly invoice. Finance teams operate in fear of close.
FinOps overhead that compounds
Cloud cost optimisation becomes a full-time job — sometimes a team. Headcount grows to manage cost reduction. Net savings shrink as overhead absorbs them.
Reserved instance lock-in
Three-year RIs and savings plans look attractive — until business needs change. The discount becomes a contract you can't escape, and unused capacity is real waste.
Egress as a hidden cost line
Data movement between regions, between services, and out to clients quietly accumulates. Most organisations don't track it accurately until the invoice arrives.
HOW WE STABILISE IT
Workload-level cost analysis
Catalogue every workload by cost driver — compute, storage, egress, support. Identify the workloads where hyperscaler pricing is genuinely competitive, and the ones where it isn't.
Repatriation candidates
Steady-state, predictable workloads (databases, file storage, internal apps, archive) typically run 40-70% cheaper on sovereign infrastructure once support and FinOps overhead are honestly accounted for.
Hybrid topology
We don't argue for full repatriation. Bursty, seasonal, or genuinely cloud-native workloads stay where they belong. Predictable workloads move to fixed-cost capacity.
Predictable monthly capacity
Sovereign capacity priced as a flat monthly figure. Your CFO knows the bill before the month starts. FinOps overhead drops because the optimisation problem stops being month-to-month firefighting.
OTHER ENTERPRISE PROBLEMS
Hyperscale Lock-in
Egress fees, proprietary services, and contractual rebates trap your roadmap.
Regulatory exposureCompliance & Sovereignty
APRA CPS 230, Essential Eight, IRAP, SOCI Act. Stronger controls over where data lives.
Operational resilienceConcentration Risk
A single hyperscaler outage or policy change can take a critical workload offline.
MAKE THE CLOUD BILL PREDICTABLE
We start with a workload-level cost review. Honest TCO, including the FinOps overhead nobody likes to count.