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
Back to Flexera OneInform
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.
![Cloud Spend Optimization Opportunities](/sites/default/files/2021-11/cloud-cost_billing-recommendations.png)
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
We view Flexera as the Holy Grail for cloud spend. So, if you want to know what we're billing you, take a look at our Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization dashboard.
Senior Director of Cloud Large Food and Beverage Manufacturer
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
![Service zur Cloudkostenkontrolle](/sites/default/files/2021-11/cloud-cost_dashboard-policy-de.png)
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 savings report](/sites/default/files/2021-11/cloud-cost-potential-savings--short.png)
Cloud cost optimization capabilities
Optimize public and private cloud spend
![Volle Kontrolle über Ihre Cloudkosten](/sites/default/files/2021-11/cloud-cost_billing-de.png)
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.
![Maximize the value of your hybrid cloud strategy](/sites/default/files/2021-11/cloud-cost_applied-policies.png)
Leverage automated 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.
![2024 State of the Cloud Report](/sites/default/files/2024-03/cover-sotc-2024.jpg)
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Who are the top cloud cost management and optimization providers? Download The 2024 Forrester Wave™. You’ll find that Flexera has come out a leader and has been recognized for integrated FinOps and ITAM.
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