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SmithySoft® provides strategic financial oversight in a cloud-first world. By uniting finance, operations, and technology under a data-driven framework, we optimize cloud spending.

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What FinOps means for your organization

FinOps helps your organization take control of cloud spending by aligning finance, engineering, and operations around shared goals. It’s not just about cutting costs — it's about making sure every cloud decision is informed, efficient, and connected to real business value.

With FinOps, you gain clear visibility into where your cloud budget is going, who’s responsible for it, and how it supports your products and services. Teams are empowered to act on real-time data, optimize usage, and avoid waste without slowing down delivery or innovation.

As cloud environments grow more complex, FinOps brings structure and accountability. It allows you to forecast spend more accurately, respond faster to anomalies, and build a culture where cost-efficiency is part of day-to-day operations.

Our services

End-to-End FinOps Support

From assessment to management, our experts guide you through every stage of FinOps adoption, establishing best practices and integrating tools to embed financial accountability into your cloud culture.

ACloud Infrastructure Review

We identify inefficiencies and hidden costs by analyzing usage patterns, helping you rightsize instances, optimize storage, and consolidate workloads for maximum performance and cost efficiency.

Waste Elimination

We identify and remove unused or underutilized cloud resources like idle instances and orphaned storage, and automate cleanups to prevent future waste. This ensures your cloud spend stays lean and efficient.

Commitment Planning & Management

We help you plan and manage cloud commitments by analyzing usage trends and applying Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and discounts maximizing savings while avoiding overcommitment.

Cost Visibility & Reporting

Gain real-time visibility into your cloud spend, broken down by project, team, or application. With fitted dashboards and reports, you can track ROI, improve forecasting, and hold teams accountable.

Proactive Anomaly Detection

Unexpected spikes in your cloud bill can take you by surprise. We integrate advanced monitoring and alerting tools to catch unusual usage patterns early, ensuring swift remediation and preventing larger budget overruns.

Common cloud challenges we help solve

Overprovisioning & Waste

Deploying resources beyond what’s actually needed leads to unnecessary costs. We implement right-sizing strategies, usage monitoring, and automated shutdowns to eliminate waste while maintaining the performance your workloads require.

Complex, distributed environments

Managing multiple cloud accounts or hybrid environments can obscure visibility and control. Our solutions unify monitoring, governance, and reporting — giving you a single, transparent view across your entire cloud landscape.

Inefficient workloads

Legacy applications, unoptimized services, and poor architecture choices can inflate your cloud bill. We guide your team through workload assessment, refactoring, and modernization to boost efficiency and reduce costs.

Unclear accountability

Siloed teams often lead to blurred ownership of cloud costs. We define clear roles, cost centers, and reporting processes so every team understands their impact and responsibility in managing spend.

Budgeting & Forecasting gaps

Without proper forecasting, cloud costs can fluctuate wildly from month to month, making it hard to stick to a budget or plan strategically. We build dynamic forecasting models that combine historical usage patterns, growth projections, and service-specific pricing to help you anticipate costs with confidence.

Lack of FinOps culture

Cloud cost optimization is not a one-time task — it requires cultural alignment across teams. Many organizations struggle to instill shared responsibility for cloud spending. We help you embed FinOps principles throughout your business, from executive buy-in to day-to-day operations.

Overprovisioning & Waste

Deploying resources beyond what’s actually needed leads to unnecessary costs. We implement right-sizing strategies, usage monitoring, and automated shutdowns to eliminate waste while maintaining the performance your workloads require.

Complex, distributed environments

Managing multiple cloud accounts or hybrid environments can obscure visibility and control. Our solutions unify monitoring, governance, and reporting — giving you a single, transparent view across your entire cloud landscape.

Inefficient workloads

Legacy applications, unoptimized services, and poor architecture choices can inflate your cloud bill. We guide your team through workload assessment, refactoring, and modernization to boost efficiency and reduce costs.

Unclear accountability

Siloed teams often lead to blurred ownership of cloud costs. We define clear roles, cost centers, and reporting processes so every team understands their impact and responsibility in managing spend.

Budgeting & Forecasting gaps

Without proper forecasting, cloud costs can fluctuate wildly from month to month, making it hard to stick to a budget or plan strategically. We build dynamic forecasting models that combine historical usage patterns, growth projections, and service-specific pricing to help you anticipate costs with confidence.

Lack of FinOps culture

Cloud cost optimization is not a one-time task — it requires cultural alignment across teams. Many organizations struggle to instill shared responsibility for cloud spending. We help you embed FinOps principles throughout your business, from executive buy-in to day-to-day operations.

Overprovisioning & Waste

Deploying resources beyond what’s actually needed leads to unnecessary costs. We implement right-sizing strategies, usage monitoring, and automated shutdowns to eliminate waste while maintaining the performance your workloads require.

Complex, distributed environments

Managing multiple cloud accounts or hybrid environments can obscure visibility and control. Our solutions unify monitoring, governance, and reporting — giving you a single, transparent view across your entire cloud landscape.

Inefficient workloads

Legacy applications, unoptimized services, and poor architecture choices can inflate your cloud bill. We guide your team through workload assessment, refactoring, and modernization to boost efficiency and reduce costs.

Unclear accountability

Siloed teams often lead to blurred ownership of cloud costs. We define clear roles, cost centers, and reporting processes so every team understands their impact and responsibility in managing spend.

Budgeting & Forecasting gaps

Without proper forecasting, cloud costs can fluctuate wildly from month to month, making it hard to stick to a budget or plan strategically. We build dynamic forecasting models that combine historical usage patterns, growth projections, and service-specific pricing to help you anticipate costs with confidence.

Lack of FinOps culture

Cloud cost optimization is not a one-time task — it requires cultural alignment across teams. Many organizations struggle to instill shared responsibility for cloud spending. We help you embed FinOps principles throughout your business, from executive buy-in to day-to-day operations.

Benefits of SmithySoft’s FinOps Consulting

SmithySoft® helps you take control of cloud spending with better visibility, smarter forecasting, and cost optimization aligned to business goals.

1

Transparent cost insights

We give you a clear, detailed view of your cloud expenses across teams, projects, and environments. By making cost data transparent and accessible, your organization can prioritize resources effectively and predict expenses more accurately.

2

Predictable budgeting

With advanced forecasting tools, you’ll see a more reliable picture of future cloud expenditures. This enables better long-term financial planning and helps you avoid budget overruns or underfunding critical initiatives.

3

Enhanced operational efficiency

Uncover redundant services, eliminate shadow IT, and refine resource provisioning to streamline operational processes. Freeing your teams from manual cost tracking lets them focus on innovation and product development.

4

Customized roadmaps

There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for successful FinOps. We tailor our recommendations to your specific workloads, compliance requirements, and business strategy, ensuring that any cost-optimization measures also support growth objectives.

Book your FinOps Consultation and start optimizing your cloud spend

Let SmithySoft® help you cut costs, improve efficiency, and gain full control of your cloud budget.

Cloud technologies and FinOps tools we apply

AWS Tools AWS Tools

  • check AWS Budgets
  • check AWS Cost and Usage Reports
  • check AWS Compute Optimizer
  • check AWS Cost Explorer

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure

  • check Cost Management Advisor
  • check Azure Reservations
  • check Azure Hybrid Benefit
  • check Azure Cost Management
  • check Power BI Reports

Google Cloud Google Cloud

  • check Google Cloud Cost Management
  • check Google Cloud Pricing Calculator
  • check BigQuery
  • check Google Cloud Billing Reports

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Optimized cloud spend

Align cloud investments with high-impact workloads and business priorities. Focusing spend where it matters most improves agility and keeps you competitive.

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Smarter cost negotiation

Use real-time usage insights and historical trends to negotiate stronger contracts with cloud providers. Get better pricing, flexible terms, and greater value.

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Process automation

Automate repetitive tasks like resource provisioning, cost monitoring, and policy enforcement. This reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, and frees teams to focus on innovation.

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Strategic efficiency

Bring cost, performance, and operations into alignment. With better processes and visibility, you reduce overhead, eliminate waste, and gain a strategic edge.

Our success stories

Discover how SmithySoft® solutions have helped clients create immersive and impactful applications.

School monitoring & Assessment tool development

Our team has delivered full‑cycle development services to resolve problems of migration of the company DB to a Cloud and increased the stability and reliability of the system that enables the implementation of effective tools for monitoring the students' group work and business intelligence.

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ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate
Certificate of completion for Designing User Interfaces & Experiences (UI/UX) from IBM Developer Skills Network, powered by Coursera
Certificate of completion for Google UX Design
Certificate of completion for Interaction Design Foundation
Top company Ruby on Rails developer in 2024 certificate
Certificate recognizing best web developers in Boston 2023
Certificate recognizing as top web developers and disability-owned business in 2024
Certificate recognizing best web developers in Atlanta 2024
Certificate recognizing top app development company in the non-profit sector, Ukraine
Global Spring 2024 Certificate
Certificate recognizing top software developers in non-profit sector, Ukraine

FAQ

FinOps, or Cloud Financial Operations, is a discipline that combines finance, engineering, and operations teams to manage and optimize cloud costs effectively. It introduces financial accountability, enabling businesses to make smarter spending decisions in real time. As cloud usage grows, FinOps helps organizations stay agile while maintaining cost control, visibility, and strategic alignment across departments.
FinOps reduces cloud costs by uncovering inefficiencies such as overprovisioned resources, idle services, and fragmented billing. It enables right-sizing, automates waste cleanup, and ensures your cloud resources are used efficiently. Through continuous monitoring, smart commitment planning, and better cost forecasting, FinOps empowers teams to reduce waste and improve ROI without compromising performance or innovation.
FinOps relies on specific metrics to track, manage, and optimize cloud costs effectively. These metrics provide visibility into usage patterns, financial performance, and operational efficiency. Key FinOps metrics include:
  • Cloud spend by service, team, or project: Tracks how much each department or application is consuming to ensure accountability and enable chargeback or showback.
  • Unit cost (e.g., cost per user, transaction, or API call): Measures cost relative to business value, helping teams assess efficiency over time.
  • Idle resource percentage: Identifies underutilized or unused resources, such as stopped instances or unattached storage, which contribute to waste.
  • Coverage of reserved instances or savings plans: Shows how much of your compute usage is covered by discounted long-term commitments, versus on-demand pricing.
  • Anomaly detection alerts: Flags sudden cost spikes or unexpected usage to help identify issues early.
  • Forecast accuracy: Compares projected vs. actual spend to improve budget planning and cost control.
  • Budget vs. actual spend: Tracks how well teams stay within allocated budgets, helping improve financial accountability across departments.
These metrics help organizations make informed decisions, reduce unnecessary spending, and align cloud usage with business goals. Monitoring them regularly is essential for a successful FinOps practice.
Yes. Cost management tools provide data, but FinOps provides the strategy, structure, and collaboration needed to act on that data effectively. FinOps ensures teams are aligned, financial goals are clear, and actions are taken to control and optimize spending. It adds a human and process-driven layer to the raw numbers, turning insights into impact across your organization.
Results can vary depending on your current cloud usage and maturity level, but many organizations begin seeing improvements in cost visibility and savings within a few weeks. As the FinOps culture becomes integrated and automation is applied, long-term benefits grow leading to sustained savings, improved forecasting, and more efficient cloud operations.
Not at all. FinOps is valuable for companies of all sizes. Startups can use it to stay lean and efficient as they scale, while mid-sized businesses and enterprises benefit from structured cost control and better financial governance. Regardless of your cloud maturity, FinOps helps you make informed, cost-effective decisions and avoid wasteful spending.

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