Multi-cloud strategies add flexibility but multiply cost management complexity. Pietecx FinOps consultants help clients establish visibility and accountability across providers.
Key practices: 1. Mandatory tagging policy - Every resource tagged with owner, environment, cost center, and application. 2. Showback dashboards - Monthly reports to business unit leaders showing their cloud consumption. 3. Rightsizing automation - Quarterly reviews of over-provisioned compute and storage. 4. Reserved capacity planning - 1-year and 3-year commitments for predictable workloads. 5. Spot/preemptible for batch - Non-critical workloads on discounted compute.
Clients who adopt all five practices typically reduce cloud spend by 25–35% within the first year without sacrificing performance.