Our approach to cloud cost management
Our cloud FinOps experts apply a simple AIM framework (assess, implement, maintain) to help organizations realize their cloud optimization goals:
- Assess: The first step requires assessing your cloud environments. Our recommendations engine, built with cloud optimization best practices, provides a high-level snapshot of opportunities to reduce costs in areas such as commercial arrangements, support arrangements, idle workloads, right-sizing opportunities and commitments/reservations.
- Implement: Next, our experts work with you to better understand workloads. As an outcome of these workshop sessions, our experts will develop a custom risk/benefit priority work plan that we can help implement.
- Maintain: The last step involves identifying the assessments and procedures for managing and maintaining your optimized cloud environment going forward.
Included services
The following services are included at no additional charge when your cloud consumption billing is consolidated through WWT.
Receive a consolidated monthly cloud invoice for simplified billing across cloud providers. Leverage customizable tools for cloud consumption and cost optimization management and get access to WWT cloud experts in key solution areas. Our resources are available to assist with billing issue resolution.
Billing insights may include:
- All spending and trends
- Tagging/percent coverage
- High-level coverage of reservations
- High-level on storage tiering
- Analysis of enterprise discounts
Supported CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP
Self-service access to WWT Cloud Marketplace provides easy access to request new subscriptions, view detailed billing reports, manage current subscriptions or manage cloud EULAs.
Supported CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP
Self-service access to WWT's preferred cloud inventory and cost optimization tool to access detailed consumption reports, custom dashboards and cost optimization recommendations. For hands-on support with customized Financial Operations (FinOps) onboarding, please see "Premium Cost Management Services" below.
Workload optimization insights may include:
- Idle instances
- Idle volumes
- Idle databases
- Other idle services
- Rightsizing of instances/databases/other services
Supported CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP
For customers with existing cloud accounts or subscriptions, WWT consumption specialists will work with you and the cloud providers to seamlessly transfer your billing to WWT, while keeping your cloud environments and resources intact.
Supported CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP
Leverage the collaborative ecosystem of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in conjunction with your cloud environment to accelerate your time to design, build, test, and deploy innovative and integrated technology solutions.
Highlighted technologies: AWS Control Tower, Azure Stack Hub, Google Anthos
Premium services
In addition to the included services, the following services were developed for customers who desire a more hands-on approach to optimizing their cloud investment.
Receive a one-day immersive workshop led by our cloud experts on one cloud topic of your choice. There are many cloud workshops to choose from.
Supported CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP
Receive up to 40 hours for an architecture review of any one workload of your choice to ensure your organization is leveraging the latest technical and operational best practices.
Supported CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP
Receive onboarding support for Financial Operations (FinOps) tools. A WWT FinOps expert can work alongside you to build a tailored environment that includes configuring data ingestion, custom dashboards, reports and alerts.
Supported CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP
Featured assessments
Public Cloud Commitment Contract Assessment
Cloud Marketplace Assessment
Additional cloud services
Each cloud journey is unique. Using a proven, outcomes-focused approach, we guide customers through the steps needed to achieve cloud maturity in an iterative fashion. Whatever your level of cloud presence — from initial strategy design through migration and operation — WWT's full spectrum of service offerings can move your organization up the cloud maturity curve and help you get the most out of your investment.
As your cloud partner
WWT understands the unique challenges organizations face as they prepare for, adopt and innovate in the cloud. As your cost management partner, we'll help you tackle these challenges head on with streamlined and simplified billing, real-time financial insights and cost savings. In addition, you'll get access to industry-leading WWT cloud consultants, architects and implementation experts.
As a nationally-certified minority-owned business (MBE), our commitment to workforce diversity is also an important benefit for our customers.
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