The cloud bill has become one of the most sensitive spending items for CIOs. In 2026, Gartner estimates that 60% of companies spend more than necessary on their cloud infrastructure. FinOps — a contraction of Finance and Operations — brings a concrete methodology for regaining control.
1. Rightsizing: sizing to actual need
80% of cloud instances are oversized. Analysing real metrics (CPU, memory, network) makes it possible to identify under-used resources and resize them. At Premaccess, our BAM platform builds this analysis in continuously.
2. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
For stable, predictable workloads, 1- or 3-year commitments offer up to 72% off on-demand pricing. The key is to identify precisely which workloads are eligible and to manage the commitment portfolio over time.
3. Spot Instances for flexible workloads
AWS Spot instances give access to spare compute capacity at a discount of up to 90%. Ideal for batch processing, machine learning or test environments, they do however require an interruption-tolerant architecture.
4. Automated scheduling (Start/Stop)
Development and staging environments do not need to run 24/7. With BAM's Scheduling feature, our clients automate the shutdown and restart of their non-production resources — an immediate saving of 65% on those environments.
5. Tag governance and per-project visibility
Without rigorous tag management, it is impossible to allocate costs to the right projects or teams. BAM automatically enforces tags on every deployment, providing granular visibility of consumption by environment, by client, by service.
Take action
At Premaccess, FinOps is not an option: it is built natively into our managed services offering. Our clients see an average 40% reduction in their cloud bill within the first 3 months. Contact us at contact@premaccess.com for a free audit of your cloud consumption.
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