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 to 35% within the first year without sacrificing performance.