About a third of most cloud bills is waste.
We find it, put a number on it, and help you remove it.
Everyone agrees the cloud bill is too high. Very few know where the waste is, or who should act on it. We answer both. A free assessment puts a number on the waste, and execution then removes it. From there we can show what drives your cost and rebuild what still costs too much. Overcast, our own platform, finds and prices the waste, and our engineers help you remove it.
The problem
The waste is real
- 94%of IT leaders say they struggle to manage and optimise cloud spend
- ~30%of spend goes to first-order waste: over-provisioning, idle compute and legacy consumption models
- up to 40%lower infrastructure cost with a mature FinOps practice
Those are the industry's numbers, from large surveys by Crayon and Sapio, Flexera and Deloitte: around a third of cloud spend can be identified as waste. The estates we have assessed and optimised agree with these numbers.
How it works
A number first, then the work, each phase built on the last
- Free assessmentyour number before you commit
- Cut the wasteFinOps practice, in your estate, with your team
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Understand what drives the costnumbers finance and engineering both trustRebuild what still costs too mucharchitecture, technology, organisation
Cutting the waste takes out the third the industry's surveys measure, using proven FinOps practices. It is the operations view of your estate, and it is generic: the same practices work everywhere.
The rebuild can take you much further. It looks at your solution the way its architect and developers do, at the building blocks and requirements that are unique to it, and pulls on more powerful levers. That goes beyond standard FinOps, so no industry study measures it yet. In our one recent case, it ended at about 75% lower total cloud cost.
Free assessment
Your number before you commit
The assessment reads your estate and puts a figure on the waste: itemised, evidenced, risk-adjusted. Overcast runs on the data your cloud already keeps. The free assessment findings are delivered to you in the form of an executive summary detailing how much you can expect to save.
- Your estateyou grant Overcast access
- Overcastreads your cloud data
- Executive summaryfindings with evidence, risk-adjusted
We care about where your cost data lives: it stays in a jurisdiction you approve. If data residency is a concern for you, it is one we address from day one.
The choice is yours
After the assessment, you decide
The assessment says what can be saved, not how. You choose the way forward, the platform on its own or with our engineers alongside, and you set the start date. Execution is priced against the projected savings and agreed before any work starts; we design for payback inside six months.
The phases
Cut first, then understand and rebuild
Cut the waste
A finding is a number; a saving is a change made in a live estate
Right-sizing, commitments, idle resources and storage tiers: the FinOps practice of removing what the bill carries for nothing. This is the phase the industry's third comes from. Overcast finds and prices it for every resource you run. Our engineers make the change, in your estate with your team, rather than leaving you with a report.
Understand what drives the cost
Attribution, from the first day
Finance sees an opaque cost. Engineering sees a working solution. Overcast gives them one truth.
Attribution runs from the first day, and after the cuts it becomes fine-grained enough to show how your product moves. It aims at three things: cost that does not creep back, a cost structure you understand and can run the business on, and new spend questioned before it lands, not after the invoice.
Rebuild what still costs too much
Architecture, technology, organisation
Some cost does not come out with right-sizing, so this phase comes on top of the cuts. It sits in the design: how well the architecture fits, the technology choices, where the data lives, how the software is maintained. The rebuild goes after the items doing most damage to your cost, your speed or your performance, and makes sure the choices hold up for what comes next. People and organisation are another big lever.
One recent case
About 75% lower total cloud cost
A scale-up had grown on a cost-is-no-object footing and needed to manage burn. All three phases were taken: infrastructure first (commitments, autoscaling, data residency, persistence, storage tiers), then product and system (release process, tenancy and redundancy model, architecture, third-party products, features running at a loss), then the team, reshaped to fit the target architecture.
- ~75%lower total cloud cost
- 11 monthsto payback, from project start
- 20%of developer time freed from manual maintenance
One recent case, and it shows what the rebuild can do with commitment.
