Our engineers implement cost visibility that actually gets used. We set up tagging, attribution, and dashboards that let you answer budget questions with data instead of guesses. You get optimization that saves money without blocking engineering or creating approval bottlenecks.
FinOps That Gives You Answers for the CFO
Understand where cloud spend comes from, who's responsible, and what to do about it before the next budget review.
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Know where the money goes
Cloud bills grow and nobody can explain why. Cost allocation tags are missing or inconsistent, teams don’t know what they spend, and reserved capacity goes unused. We implement FinOps practices that give you visibility into spend by team, project, and workload so you can optimize with data instead of guessing.
Our capabilities include:
- Cloud cost visibility and attribution
- Tagging strategy and governance
- Reserved instance and savings plan optimization
- Cost anomaly detection and alerting
- Showback and chargeback implementation
- Rightsizing and waste elimination
Who we support
Cloud costs grow faster than revenue if nobody’s watching. We help organizations understand, attribute, and optimize spend before the next budget review.
Companies With Unexplained Growth
Your cloud bill went up 30% and nobody can say why. Finance wants answers, engineering shrugs. Visibility and attribution show exactly which teams, projects, and workloads drove the increase.
Organizations With No Cost Accountability
Engineers spin up resources and forget about them. Nobody knows what anything costs until the bill arrives. Tagging and showback make spend visible so teams own their numbers.
Enterprises Optimizing at Scale
You're spending millions on cloud and know there's waste but don't know where to start. Analysis and rightsizing find the savings without breaking production workloads.
Ways to engage
We offer a wide range of engagement models to meet our clients’ needs. From hourly consultation to fully managed solutions, our engagement models are designed to be flexible and customizable.
Staff Augmentation
Get access to on-demand product and engineering team talent that gives your company the flexibility to scale up and down as business needs ebb and flow.
Retainer Services
Retainers are perfect for companies that have a fully built product in maintenance mode. We'll give you peace of mind by keeping your software running, secure, and up to date.
Project Engagement
Project-based contracts that can range from small-scale audit and strategy sessions to more intricate replatforming or build from scratch initiatives.
We'll spec out a custom engagement model for you
Invested in creating success and defining new standards
At Curotec, we do more than deliver cutting-edge solutions — we build lasting partnerships. It’s the trust and collaboration we foster with our clients that make CEOs, CTOs, and CMOs consistently choose Curotec as their go-to partner.
Helping a Series B SaaS company refine and scale their product efficiently
Why choose Curotec for FinOps?
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Extraordinary people, exceptional outcomes
Our outstanding team represents our greatest asset. With business acumen, we translate objectives into solutions. Intellectual agility drives efficient software development problem-solving. Superior communication ensures seamless teamwork integration.
2
Deep technical expertise
We don’t claim to be experts in every framework and language. Instead, we focus on the tech ecosystems in which we excel, selecting engagements that align with our competencies for optimal results. Moreover, we offer pre-developed components and scaffolding to save you time and money.
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Balancing innovation with practicality
We stay ahead of industry trends and innovations, avoiding the hype of every new technology fad. Focusing on innovations with real commercial potential, we guide you through the ever-changing tech landscape, helping you embrace proven technologies and cutting-edge advancements.
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Flexibility in our approach
We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to meet your specific needs. Whether you prefer our end-to-end project delivery, embedding our experts within your teams, or consulting and retainer options, we have a solution designed to suit you.
FinOps capabilities that turn bills into answers
Cost Dashboard Setup
Build dashboards that break down spend by team, project, and service so leadership sees where money goes at a glance.
Tagging Automation & Enforcement
Implement policies that require tags on every resource and flag violations before unattributed spend accumulates.
Savings Plan Analysis
Analyze usage patterns to recommend the right mix of reserved instances, savings plans, and on-demand capacity.
Real-Time Spend Alerts
Configure alerts that notify teams when spend exceeds thresholds so surprises get caught in days, not months.
Team Cost Reports
Generate recurring reports that show each team their spend so engineers see the impact of their decisions.
Idle Resource Cleanup
Identify and remove unused instances, orphaned volumes, and forgotten test environments that quietly drain budget.
Tools and technologies for FinOps
Cost Management Platforms
Our engineers implement platforms that aggregate spend across clouds and give you unified visibility into where money goes.
- CloudHealth — Multi-cloud cost management platform with allocation, optimization recommendations, and governance policies
- Kubecost — Kubernetes cost monitoring with namespace and workload attribution for containerized environments
- Apptio Cloudability — Enterprise FinOps platform with cost allocation, forecasting, and optimization across cloud providers
- Spot by NetApp — Cloud cost optimization with automated scaling, savings analysis, and waste detection across AWS and Azure
- Vantage — Cost observability platform with per-resource attribution, anomaly detection, and Kubernetes cost tracking
- Infracost — Infrastructure cost estimation in pull requests so teams see cost impact before deploying changes
Cloud Provider Cost Tools
Curotec configures native cost tools from AWS, Azure, and GCP to surface spend data and optimization recommendations.
- AWS Cost Explorer — Native AWS tool for visualizing spend patterns, filtering by service and tag, and forecasting future costs
- AWS Budgets — Budget tracking with alerts when spend approaches or exceeds thresholds across accounts and services
- Azure Cost Management — Microsoft tool for analyzing Azure and AWS spend with budgets, recommendations, and export capabilities
- Google Cloud Billing — GCP cost reporting with breakdowns by project, service, and label with export to BigQuery for analysis
- AWS Trusted Advisor — Service health checks with cost optimization recommendations for idle resources and underutilized capacity
- Azure Advisor — Optimization recommendations for cost, security, and performance across Azure resources
Tagging & Policy Enforcement
We implement tagging automation and policies that ensure every resource is attributable before costs become mysteries.
- AWS Tag Policies — Organization-level tagging rules that enforce required tags and allowed values across accounts
- Azure Policy — Governance rules that require tags on resource creation and audit compliance across subscriptions
- Cloud Custodian — Open-source rules engine for enforcing tagging policies, compliance, and automated remediation
- Terraform — Infrastructure as code with default tags in modules so resources are tagged consistently at creation
- AWS Config — Configuration tracking that monitors tag compliance and flags resources missing required attributes
- Tag Editor — AWS console tool for bulk tagging and finding untagged resources across regions and services
Commitment & Savings Optimization
Our teams analyze usage patterns to recommend reserved instances and savings plans that cut costs without overcommitting.
- AWS Cost Explorer Recommendations — Built-in analysis for reserved instance and savings plan purchases based on historical usage patterns
- Azure Reservations — Commitment discounts for VMs, databases, and storage with utilization tracking and exchange options
- GCP Committed Use Discounts — Resource-based or spend-based commitments with recommendations based on project usage history
- Spot.io — Automated management of spot instances and reserved capacity with prediction and fallback handling
- ProsperOps — Autonomous savings plan management that adjusts commitments based on changing usage patterns
- Zesty — Dynamic reserved instance management that automatically adjusts capacity to match actual utilization
Rightsizing & Resource Optimization
Curotec identifies oversized instances, idle resources, and orphaned storage so you eliminate waste without risk.
- AWS Compute Optimizer — Machine learning recommendations for rightsizing EC2, EBS, and Lambda based on utilization data
- Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations — Identifies underutilized VMs, idle resources, and oversized databases with estimated savings
- GCP Recommender — Usage-based suggestions for rightsizing VMs, removing idle resources, and adjusting committed use
- Densify — Analytics platform for rightsizing across clouds with container and Kubernetes optimization support
- Turbonomic — AI-powered resource optimization that automates scaling decisions based on demand patterns
- Unusd — Lightweight tool for finding idle cloud resources, unattached volumes, and forgotten snapshots
Reporting & Visualization
We build cost dashboards and reports that make spend understandable to engineering, finance, and leadership alike.
- Grafana — Open-source dashboards for visualizing cost metrics alongside infrastructure and application data
- Power BI — Microsoft visualization tool for building executive cost reports with drill-down and filtering capabilities
- Looker — Business intelligence platform for modeling cost data and building self-service reports for stakeholders
- AWS QuickSight — Managed BI service for building cost dashboards with anomaly detection and forecasting built in
- Metabase — Open-source analytics for querying cost data exports and sharing reports with finance and engineering
- Google Data Studio — Free dashboarding tool for visualizing GCP billing exports and blending with other data sources
FAQs about our FinOps services
Where do we start with FinOps?
Visibility first. We implement tagging and cost attribution so you can see where money goes. You can’t optimize what you can’t measure. Once you have data, we prioritize optimizations by impact.
How much can we realistically save?
Most organizations find 20-30% savings through rightsizing, reserved capacity, and waste elimination. The exact number depends on how optimized you already are and how much idle or oversized infrastructure exists.
Will this slow down engineering?
Not if done right. We focus on visibility and accountability, not approval gates. Engineers see what they spend and make informed tradeoffs. Cost awareness becomes part of the culture, not a blocker.
How do you handle multi-cloud environments?
We implement tools that aggregate spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP into unified dashboards. Tagging strategies work across providers so attribution stays consistent regardless of where workloads run.
What if our tagging is already a mess?
We audit existing tags, define standards, and implement enforcement policies going forward. For historical resources, we use bulk tagging and automation to clean up what exists without manual effort.
How long until we see cost savings?
Quick wins like idle resource cleanup happen in weeks. Reserved capacity optimization takes a few months to validate. Cultural change and sustained savings take longer but compound over time.
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