Cost visibility and allocation
The bill split by team, product, environment and account — with the untagged remainder made visible rather than buried.
Finance teams asked to explain a number nobody owns.
They deliver alongside usYou cannot cut a cloud bill you cannot read.
Aquila Clouds is the FinOps platform we bring in when a cloud bill has stopped being explainable. It shows where the money goes. The decisions that bring it down are still decisions somebody has to make.
A capability partner, not a product purchase. One scope and one invoice, with their specialists on the engagement.
What we work with
The products, and who each one suits.
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Kubernetes and container cost
Spend allocated across namespaces, workloads and shared nodes, so a cluster stops being one line item.
Platform teams where every service lands in the same bill.
Commitment management
Reserved instances, savings plans and committed-use discounts tracked against real coverage and utilisation.
Organisations paying on demand for workloads that have run continuously for a year.
Anomaly detection and budgets
Alerts when spend departs from its own pattern, and budgets that are checked rather than admired.
Anyone who has learned about a runaway job from the invoice.
Showback and chargeback
Reporting each team can see, so cost lands with the people who create it.
Engineering organisations where cloud cost is currently one central problem.
Unit economics
Cost per customer, per tenant, per transaction — the number that says whether growth is working.
Businesses whose cloud bill is growing faster than their revenue.
What buying through us changes
A partnership is only worth what it changes.
Better than list
Two levers, and we use both — the platform's own commercial terms, negotiated as part of the engagement, and the committed cloud spend underneath it, which we can place through our cloud partnerships instead of leaving it at on-demand rates.
Named contacts
Access to the people who build the platform when a cost model does not match your architecture, rather than a support form. Allocation always breaks on somebody's edge case; it helps to reach an engineer.
Startup credits
The credits worth having early are the cloud providers' own. We sponsor those applications and the provider decides. What this adds is knowing where the credit actually went, while there is still some left.
How we help
The work around the product.
- Fix tagging and account structure first — allocation is only ever as honest as the metadata underneath it.
- Connect every billing account across every cloud you use, including the ones finance has forgotten about.
- Agree the allocation model with finance and engineering in the same room, so the report survives its first argument.
- Read the first month with you and separate genuine waste from the cost of doing business.
- Act on it — rightsizing, shutting non-production down out of hours, moving cold data, retiring what nobody owns.
- Take the commitment decision on evidence: coverage, utilisation, and how confident you honestly are about next year.
Where this is not the answer
A FinOps platform does not save money. It tells you where the money went. The saving comes from decisions somebody has to make and defend, and some of them are unpopular with the team that built the thing. Below a certain spend the tooling costs more attention than it returns — a tagging convention and a monthly review will do the same job, and we will say that rather than sell you a platform. It will not re-architect anything either: if the bill is high because the design is wrong, that is engineering work, and it is quoted separately.
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Distribution & managed services
Next step
Buying Aquila Clouds? Talk to us first.
Tell us what you are trying to do and we will come back with the sizing, the licensing and the price — from a partner, within two working days.