skills

Build chargeback and showback. Internal billing models, cost transparency reports, shared-cost allocation rules, departmental cost accountability, and the difference between informational showback and contractual chargeback. Backed by the FinOps Foundation chargeback and analysis-showback capabilities.

Cut your cloud bill. Right-size compute, find idle and unused resources, optimize storage tiers, tighten utilization on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Quantified savings opportunities, prioritized by impact. Backed by the FinOps Foundation utilization-efficiency capability and the standardized waste sensor KPIs.

Forecast cloud spend. Capacity planning, budget vs. actual variance, seasonal modeling, what-if scenarios, and forecast accuracy improvement. Cloud-bill predictability for finance, engineering, and product. Backed by the FinOps Foundation forecasting and budget-management capabilities and the Foundation's forecasting playbook.

Find unused, idle, and oversized cloud resources. Standardized waste sensors covering EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, Lambda, load balancers, IPs, NAT gateways, Kubernetes, and more across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Savings opportunities ranked by impact. Backed by the FinOps Foundation waste sensor KPIs and reducing-waste working group.

Buy Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Committed Use Discounts, and Azure Reservations wisely. Coverage modeling, commitment ROI, term and payment trade-offs, blast-radius analysis, exit risk, and ongoing portfolio management. Backed by the FinOps Foundation manage-commitment-based-discounts capability.

Allocate cloud costs to teams, products, environments, and customers. Tagging strategy, label policy, untagged-spend recovery, multi-account / multi-subscription / multi-project attribution, and Kubernetes / container cost allocation. Backed by the FinOps Foundation cost-allocation capability and container cost allocation labels.

Detect, triage, and respond to cloud cost anomalies. Cost spike investigation, alert tuning (signal vs. noise), root-cause analysis (RCA), prevention patterns, and runbook design. AWS, Azure, GCP. Backed by the FinOps Foundation manage-anomalies capability.

Measure cloud cost per customer, transaction, request, API call, or feature. Cloud unit economics for COGS, gross-margin analysis, per-tenant cost in multi-tenant SaaS, and cost-per-business-driver reporting. Backed by the FinOps Foundation measure-unit-costs capability and unit-economics playbook.

Cut cloud bills, allocate costs to teams, plan Savings Plans / RIs / CUDs, detect cost anomalies, build chargeback and showback, forecast spend, and identify waste across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Covers cloud cost optimization, FinOps maturity assessment, unit economics / cost per customer, tagging strategy, multi-cloud cost normalization (FOCUS spec), and Kubernetes / container cost allocation. Backed by the FinOps Foundation framework (18 capabilities, 8 personas, 6 playbooks), the FOCUS billing data spec, and waste sensor KPIs.