Cut cloud spend without cutting performance — FinOps built for finance and engineering teams to run together.
Cloud has given finance and technology teams agility they didn't have with on-premise infrastructure, but it has also disrupted traditional cost management. Spend that used to be a fixed annual budget line is now a dynamic, consumption-based number that can move overnight. AKM Global's Cloud Cost Optimization practice brings financial discipline to cloud spend, without slowing down the engineering teams who depend on it.
The Challenge
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Cloud bills grow faster than anyone is tracking them, especially across multiple regions and accounts
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Engineering and finance teams don't speak the same language on cost, so waste goes unnoticed
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Oversized instances, orphaned resources and un-optimised commitments quietly inflate spend every month
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Cross-border cloud cost allocation is rarely aligned with transfer pricing policy, creating tax exposure
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One-time cost-cutting exercises don't stick without ongoing governance
Our Approach
We move clients through three stages — Inform, Optimise and Operate — the FinOps lifecycle used across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with cost data surfaced on a live Power BI dashboard throughout, so savings are found once and then sustained, not rediscovered every quarter.
How AKM Global Can Help
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Cloud Spend Assessment & Benchmarking: A detailed audit of current cloud usage and billing to identify waste, oversized resources and quick wins.
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FinOps Governance Framework Setup: Tagging standards, cost accountability models and escalation paths so spend maps cleanly to teams and cost centres.
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Workload Right-Sizing & Commitment Management: Right-size instances and match reserved/committed pricing to actual usage patterns across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
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Multi-Cloud Cost Dashboarding: Power BI dashboards giving finance and engineering shared, real-time visibility into spend, trends and anomalies.
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Managed FinOps / Continuous Optimisation: Ongoing monitoring and monthly optimisation cycles, so savings compound rather than erode.
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Cloud Cost & Transfer Pricing Alignment: For multinational groups, align intercompany cloud cost allocation with transfer pricing policy — a natural extension of AKM Global's transfer pricing practice.
What You Will Achieve
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20–30% reduction in cloud spend — within the first quarter, without touching performance.
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Full spend visibility — via a Power BI dashboard across accounts, regions and cost centres.
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Sustained savings — through ongoing governance, not a one-time cleanup that drifts back up.
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Cross-border cloud costs aligned with TP policy — reducing tax risk alongside cloud cost.
Illustrative Use Cases
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A SaaS company discovering that a third of its compute spend was idle, non-production environments left running
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A multinational aligning its intercompany cloud cost recharge model with its transfer pricing documentation
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An enterprise standing up a FinOps centre of excellence with AKM Global as its ongoing embedded partner
Sample use case: A fast-growing SaaS client's cloud bill had grown untracked across three regions. AKM Global's FinOps assessment right-sized instances and restructured commitments, cutting monthly cloud spend by 22% within one quarter, with progress tracked on a shared Power BI dashboard.
Industries We Serve
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SaaS and technology companies running multi-region cloud infrastructure
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Multinationals with cross-border intercompany cloud cost allocation
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GCCs and shared-services centres managing shared cloud environments
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Fast-scaling startups without dedicated FinOps capability
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Enterprises standing up a FinOps centre of excellence
Why AKM Global
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Finance and engineering, one language — we bring financial discipline to cloud spend without slowing down the engineering teams who depend on it.
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Tax-aware FinOps — a natural extension of our transfer pricing practice, so cross-border cloud cost allocation stays aligned with TP policy.
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Savings that stick — ongoing governance and monthly optimisation cycles, not a one-time cleanup that drifts back up.
Reach out to us at info@akmglobal.com to explore how AKM Global's FinOps practice can cut your cloud spend without slowing down the engineering teams who depend on it.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Q1. How quickly can we expect to see savings?
Ans: Most clients see a 20-30% reduction in cloud spend within the first quarter, without any impact on performance.
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Q2. Will this slow down our engineering team?
Ans: No. FinOps governance is designed to run alongside engineering, not gate it — tagging standards and dashboards create visibility without adding approval friction.
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Q3. We operate across multiple countries — does that complicate things?
Ans: It's actually where we add the most value: we align intercompany cloud cost allocation with your transfer pricing documentation, reducing tax risk alongside cloud cost.