FinOps as a service
Run Azure FinOps as a managed service
FinOps as a service means an MSP takes ongoing responsibility for a client's Azure cost optimisation: finding waste, prioritising it, making changes safely and proving the result. Cerberus Cloud gives your team the platform to do that across every client without building the tooling first.
Book a WalkthroughWhat clients are actually buying
Not a monthly PDF, and not a promise that every pound of waste disappears. A FinOps service sells continuous detection, qualified engineering judgement, safe execution and evidence that each change delivered what it promised.
That is what makes it renewable. A one-off cost review ends when the report is sent; a service keeps finding, fixing and proving savings every month.
Package it as a repeatable service
Start with a clear service promise, scope and ideal client profile, then package discovery, prioritisation and remediation into a monthly cadence your team can run the same way for every client. The MSP Azure FinOps Service Line Playbook covers each step.
- A clear service promise and scope
- A monthly discovery and remediation cadence
- A two-tenant pilot to prove value
- Sales, delivery and renewal measures
Price it without a conflict of interest
A percentage-of-spend fee pays you less after every successful optimisation cycle and more when client waste grows. Fixed bands by environment size, stable managed-spend bands, or a capped, time-limited share of validated savings on top of a flat fee all avoid that conflict.
We explain the trade-offs in why percentage-of-spend pricing quietly kills MSP FinOps practices.
Standardise delivery so margins hold
A flat or banded fee only stays profitable if every engagement follows the same process: a standard catalogue of checks, a standard validation workflow and a standard evidence format a client's engineers can act on without a custom explanation each time.
Cerberus Cloud provides that standard: 275+ automated finders across 15 Azure service families (see what each family covers), findings ranked by impact, effort and risk, remediation scripts for review and a savings history per client.
Frequently asked questions
- What is FinOps as a service?
- An ongoing managed service in which an MSP finds, prioritises and delivers cloud cost savings for a client and reports the results, rather than running occasional one-off cost reviews.
- How should an MSP price a FinOps service?
- Avoid a straight percentage of the client's cloud spend, because it pays you less as you succeed. Fixed bands by environment size, stable managed-spend bands, or a capped, time-limited share of validated savings on top of a flat fee all avoid that conflict. Read the full argument
- Do we need a dedicated FinOps team to start?
- No. Cerberus Cloud handles detection, prioritisation and evidence, so your existing engineers can deliver from a ranked backlog with remediation scripts, and your account teams can report from the savings history.
- How do we start?
- With a two-tenant pilot: connect two client tenants read-only, validate the findings and delivery workflow with your engineers, and decide how to package the service before expanding across your client base.
See the service your team could deliver
A 15-minute walkthrough of a sample Azure portfolio: findings, prioritisation, remediation scripts and the savings history clients see at renewal.