AetherCloud

FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimization

Cut cloud spend 30–55% without touching performance

We combine forensic spend analysis with hands-on engineering to remove waste, right-size commitments, and install a FinOps culture that keeps saving after the engagement ends.

£48M+

Annual cloud spend optimized

40%

Median first-year savings

90 days

Typical time to first savings

Case Breakdowns

Real numbers from recent engagements

B2B SaaS · Analytics platform

AWS

Before / month

£412k

After / month

£235k

43% saved Results in 2 quarters

How we did it

  • Rightsized 340 EC2 instances and moved steady-state workloads to 3-year compute savings plans
  • Replaced always-on Elasticsearch clusters with autoscaled OpenSearch + S3 tiering
  • Eliminated £31k/month of orphaned EBS volumes, idle NAT gateways, and over-provisioned RDS replicas

E-commerce · Marketplace group

Multi-cloud (AWS + GCP)

Before / month

£1.18M

After / month

£749k

36% saved Results in 3 quarters

How we did it

  • Consolidated duplicated data pipelines into BigQuery with partitioning and slot reservations
  • Shifted batch media processing to spot capacity with checkpointed fallback
  • Introduced showback dashboards and per-team budgets with anomaly alerts

Health-tech · Clinical records

Azure

Before / month

£186k

After / month

£102k

45% saved Results in 1 quarter

How we did it

  • Reserved capacity for AKS node pools covering 70% of baseline usage
  • Auto-shutdown of non-production environments outside business hours
  • Storage lifecycle policies moving imaging archives to cool and archive tiers
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Savings you keep

Every optimization ships with guardrails — budgets, anomaly alerts, and policy-as-code — so spend never creeps back up.

The AetherCloud FinOps Practice

Analysis, engineering, and culture — in that order

Spend Forensics

Line-level analysis of every resource, commitment, and data-flow charge — tagged, allocated, and benchmarked against your peers.

Optimization Engineering

Rightsizing, commitment strategies, spot orchestration, and architecture changes delivered by engineers — not just recommendations.

FinOps Operating Model

Showback, unit economics, budgets, and anomaly detection wired into your culture so savings compound after we leave.

Find out what your cloud bill could be

Our free cloud audit includes a spend benchmark: we model your current usage against an optimized target architecture and quantify the gap.

Request a spend benchmark