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Decouple tech cost from revenue

Cloud Cost Optimisation

Unlock your technology edge

As you race to digitalise and deploy AI at scale, we engineer your technology foundations to decouple cloud spend from revenue, converting every unit of compute into a driver of enterprise value.

Convert cloud costs into growth capital

Legacy infrastructure ties up capital and slows momentum. Uncontrolled cloud costs erode margins and delay innovation. Over-provisioned environments restrict investment in growth – from faster product launches to scaling AI or entering new markets.

Releasing capital trapped in the cloud

By aligning cloud spend to real demand signals, exposing inefficiencies, and embedding ongoing financial and operational discipline, Capacitas breaks the link between cloud & AI cost and revenue growth.
This creates a more efficient cost base, unlocking up to 70% savings while also improving transparency and the ability to reinvest capital into growth priorities. Over the past decade, Capacitas has delivered more than $250m in savings for our clients.

$20M

Cloud spend reduced in 18 months while scaling 30% year on year

— $2bn US SaaS firm

€6M

Annual savings unlocked, whilst enabling 27% subscriber growth

— Cegid

£2M

Annual savings delivered, alongside 89% reduction in incidents

— UKHSA

Edge unlocked

Scale with confidence
High-performing systems that handle growth and peak demand without compromising performance 

Sustain cost control 
Embedded cloud cost management and FinOps practices prevent overspend from returning

Unlock growth capital 
Release millions in cloud spend to reinvest in innovation and market expansion

Book a Cloud Cost Diagnostic

Get a clear picture of your cloud cost position. This is a data-driven cloud cost maturity assessment, not a high-level conversation. We work directly with your cloud data to give your leadership team a precise view of where you stand and what is possible.

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THE TECHNOLOGY EDGE: HIGH-PERFORMING SYSTEMS THAT SCALE SEAMLESSLY, CONVERTING CLOUD EFFICIENCY INTO GROWTH CAPITAL AND DECOUPLING SPEND FROM REVENUE.

 

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A four-stage model for Cloud Cost Optimisation

Every transformation begins with a free diagnostic assessment to establish your baseline using your data. We analyse how your cloud is performing and where value is being eroded. We also apply predictive modelling to forecast how demand will impact performance and to uncover opportunities for value creation.

1. Discover

Quantify the opportunity
We analyse workload behaviour, usage patterns and commercial priorities to pinpoint inefficiencies and identify how much cloud spend can be released and prioritise the highest-value opportunities and quick wins.

2. Realise

Implement improvements that capture savings 
Optimisations are implemented systematically, with savings implemented within eight weeks. Our phased approach ensures you start improving cost efficiency quickly, while preserving resilience.

3. Transform 

Make efficiencies sustainable
We embed FinOps practices, governance and cultural change so cost discipline becomes continuous, preventing regression and compounding value over time.

4. Support

Maintain the gains
Periodic checks for up to 12 months post-implementation ensure capability is maintained and outcomes sustained – across cost-efficiency, performance, scalability and speed of delivery. Where workload peaks or team churn create pressure, we provide additional resources to protect continuity.

Engineer your technology economics

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Maximise savings opportunities

Traditional FinOps tackles resource-level inefficiencies, like rightsizing VMs and shutting down idle instances. By analysing usage patterns and aligning spend with business needs, we uncover 4× more savings, freeing capital to reinvest in innovation and growth.

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Engineer cloud cost efficiency at scale

Legacy environments struggle to handle spikes in traffic, demanding workloads or rapid growth, without significant over-provisioning and large cost commitments. We engineer systems to scale seamlessly, delivering high performance at lower cost under peak demand, without idle or excess capacity waste.

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From firefighting to forward-thinking

When engineering teams spend more time fixing inefficiencies than innovating, we introduce and embed cost-conscious practices and FinOps processes. This unlocks more capacity to focus on high-impact projects and growth-driving outcomes.

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Retention-boosting customer experience

Hidden bottlenecks and over-provisioned resources create outages and slow response times. We stabilise platform performance so clients can transact reliably, building trust, loyalty and sustainable revenue growth.

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Embed a cost-conscious culture

If not reinforced by process and culture change, cloud overspend quickly returns. We embed governance, behaviours and mindsets in your teams to sustain cloud cost management and optimisation. This translates efficiency savings into a strategic, long-term advantage.

Capacitas brought its new way of thinking about performance to the team. Working with them, we applied together new ideas of application performance and combined them with cost along with the architecture to make recommendations that reduced the costs by 70%+.

Niraj Nagrani

SVP at Ancestry

Running a platform like ours, with billions of customer personas, means complexity is everywhere. Capacitas helped us turn that complexity into clarity. They showed us how to measure efficiency in terms of cost per customer interaction - a metric that instantly connected engineering performance to business value. That shift in thinking has been one of the most important outcomes of our work together.

Steve Jang

Distinguished Software Engineer, Qualtrics

Working with Capacitas helped us optimise our cloud infrastructure - not just for cost, but to improve consistency and predictability across the platform. They brought clarity to complex challenges and helped overcome both technical and organisational resistance. The result? A more reliable, scalable service with real impact on our customer experience.

Andre Brunetiere

CTO & CPO, Cegid

FAQs

What is cloud cost optimisation?

Cloud Cost Optimisation is Capacitas’ strategic capability to reduce cloud spend while improving performance, scalability and reliability. We analyse usage patterns, eliminate over-provisioned resources, and align cloud infrastructure to real business demand, maximising return on every unit of cloud investment. 

How is this different to FinOps, and how does it relate to cloud cost management?

FinOps is a framework for improving visibility, accountability and ongoing cloud cost management across teams. It typically focuses on monitoring usage, reporting costs and identifying efficiency opportunities.

At Capacitas, our Cloud Cost Optimisation approach goes further. By analysing application behaviour, usage patterns and business demand, we uncover deeper optimisation opportunities. We then help you to implement them without compromising performance.

In short, FinOps supports cloud cost management, while our Cloud Cost Optimisation service builds on it to embed the processes and culture needed to deliver sustainable, compounding value.

How quickly can we see results?

Our phased approach ensures early wins. Most clients unlock measurable cost reductions eight weeks into the ‘Realise’ phase.

However, the Capacitas approach goes beyond a single cloud optimisation exercise. We engineer the discipline and nurture the culture required to turn cloud efficiency into a continuous, compounding source of growth capital. These full benefits accumulate as cultural and process changes are embedded

How do you ensure performance is not impacted during Cloud Cost Optimisation?

We align all optimisation activities with workload requirements and business priorities. By combining Cloud Cost Optimisation with Performance Engineering, every cost decision is tested against workload behaviour and performance requirements to ensure systems remain scalable, resilient and high-performing – even under peak demand or the pressure of AI-driven workloads.

Who benefits from Cloud Cost Optimisation and FinOps?

Cloud Cost Optimisation benefits CFOs, CTOs and engineering teams.

  • CFOs gain improved margins and cost control
  • CTOs achieve scalable, high-performing infrastructure
  • Engineering teams can focus on innovation rather than managing inefficiencies

Does Cloud Cost Optimisation work across sectors?

Yes. Our Cloud Cost Optimisation approach is sector-agnostic and relevant wherever cloud spend is significant. Our clients span:



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