Cloud cost optimization – FinOps
Improve visibility and efficiency of cloud spend at scale
Flexera One offers a full approach to your organization’s FinOps journey that enables cloud governance and FinOps teams to work collaboratively with business units and cloud resource owners to gain visibility and identify areas of savings opportunities (Inform), take action on these identified areas (Optimize), 
and implement processes to automate and govern these optimizations (Operate).
With Flexera One, you get a comprehensive set of cloud cost optimization capabilities designed to implement FinOps processes across your entire cloud environment. Flexera's Cloud Cost Optimization works with all cloud service providers, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and less common/region specific providers.
Cloud cost optimization capabilities
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Inform
Improve visibility and allocation of cloud spend
Now you can monitor cloud usage allocation, costs and discounting structures for all public and private cloud accounts and all associated costs—allowing you to identify cloud cost optimization and savings opportunities and receive smart recommendations for cost optimization actions.
Flexera’s cloud cost optimization dashboard, pictured below, gives users a complete view into their cloud infrastructure, including all provider and related costs with real-time cost metrics.
Forrester Wave™
How do CMO providers compare? Download the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization, Q3 2022 to find out. They've identified, researched, analyzed and scored the most significant players, and Flexera has come out a leader.
26 criteria
were used to evaluate CCMO providers
Success story
How a management software provider optimized their cloud resources
Flexera helped a workplace management software provider gain visibility into 85 separate cloud accounts’ costs, saving $200,000 a year through cloud cost optimization services.
$200,000
saved annually
across three cloud providers
Optimize
Improve efficiency of cloud spend
Actionable cloud spend recommendations help your organization identify and take action on non-optimized resources on an ongoing basis.
Operate
Operate cloud at scale
Spend anomalies reporting paired with budget controls and cost policies help your organization avoid surprises and eliminate waste. Powerful functionality enables cloud governance teams to work collaboratively with business units and cloud resource owners to report, manage and optimize cloud spend.
Cloud cost optimization capabilities
Optimize public and private cloud spend
Gain full control over multi-cloud costs
Simplify cloud cost management across multiple platforms and work collaboratively with cloud resource owners to report, manage and optimize cloud spend.
Leverage AI and machine-learning policies to control cloud estate
Enable your cloud governance teams to manage and control hybrid cloud use to automate governance of costs, operations, security and compliance.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Top cloud challenges for all organizations in 2023
82%
Managing cloud spend
79%
Security
78%
Lack of resources/expertise
Informing IT, Transforming IT
Industry insights to help keep you informed
Webinars
Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud webinar
March 14
When it comes to the cloud, what’s in store for 2024? Tune in to Flexera’s 2024 State of the Cloud Report webinar and be the first to learn how organizations are navigating cloud and FinOps initiatives through a cost-conscious lens.
Blog
Flexera One FinOps – Cloud Cost Optimization Year in Review
Case Studies
Accruent
Learn how a workplace management software provider managed their cloud cost challenges.
Videos
Carlsberg’s Sonal Gupta talks about her FinOps experience with Flexera
Sonal Gupta, Service Delivery Manager, Cloud Hosting Infrastructure for Carlsberg, discusses her experience leading the brewing giant’s FinOps practice with the help of Flexera solutions.
White Papers & Reports
Hybrid ITAM and FinOps: What they are and why they matter
It’s important for organizations of any size running licensed software in the cloud to initiate and foster collaboration between their ITAM and FinOps teams. This benefits both teams and the entire organization.
Datasheets
Hybrid ITAM and FinOps: Fully optimized cloud, SaaS and ITAM
The benefits of taking a Hybrid ITAM and FinOps approach are many, but they can be summarized as enabling true cost optimization of applications and workloads. Discover how to fully optimize your IT estate with this solution brief.
Cloud Cost Optimization
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