Samax for whoever just got handed FinOps
You've been handed the cloud bill.FinOps is how you look after it — and you don't have to build it alone.
FinOps is the practice of treating cloud spend like any other budget: knowing who spends, how much, why, and acting before the month closes. If you inherited that responsibility with no team, no tooling and a board already asking for a number, Samax places a senior FinOps inside your team to build it with you — across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.
You get to know who spends what
Today the invoice arrives as a single block. We give every cloud resource an owner (engineering calls this tagging: a label saying which team, product and environment it belongs to) and enforce the rule automatically. The result is the first answer the board will ask for: what each area costs.
Each area's bill, no spreadsheet
With every resource identified, cost is distributed across the areas that use it. You can just show it (showback) or actually charge it to each area's budget (chargeback). Start with what your organization can handle today; we generate both automatically.
Stop paying for machines nobody uses
Machines bigger than they need to be, instances running with no use, reservations bought and underused — sizing to real usage (rightsizing) is where the first cut usually comes from. Done continuously, not in a yearly clean-up.
A routine that arrives ready-made
Nobody handed you a process — we bring one. Every week, an anomaly review with engineering; every month, a report of what changed and how much was saved; and a summary for leadership you don't have to put together. That is what keeps the result after the first cut.
How it works, from zero
A senior Samax FinOps inside your team, starting from where you are — assuming no tooling, no history and no staff.
We connect to your AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI accounts within 24h, in read-only mode. We map everything that is running, identify what has no owner and quantify immediate waste — your first number for the board.
Mandatory labels, allocation rules and each area's bill by team, product and environment — with no impact on operations and no need for you to fight engineering over it.
Real-time dashboards with label coverage, cost anomalies, what each service costs per unit delivered, and an alert before spend escapes the budget.
Weekly for anomalies, monthly for machine sizing, quarterly to review the rules. Each cycle records realized versus recommended savings — the history you bring to the next budget meeting.
Real-time FinOps operations
What changes for whoever just inherited this
The difference between answering the board with the invoice in hand and answering with each area's bill.
- Up to 40% of resources with no identified owner — nobody knows whose cost it is
- Splitting the invoice across areas is manual work, every week or month
- Spend spikes discovered when the invoice closes
- Each team with its own number; none of them matches finance's
- Nobody knows what each product or service costs
- Over 98% of resources with an owner, enforced automatically
- Each area's bill generated automatically, to show or to charge
- Anomalies detected in real time, with alert and context
- Auditable, consistent allocation reports every cycle
- Cost per product, team and environment visible — and explainable
98%+
of resources with an identified owner
Per-area bill in days
not weeks
Continuous view
of all your clouds, in real time
80% less
time spent on manual reports
*Metrics observed in environments with structured governance implemented. Results vary by infrastructure maturity and scale.