Assessment and roadmap
FinOps Maturity Assessment
Understand how well your organisation turns cloud and AI spend into business value today, and what to build next.
Across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and hybrid estates.
Strengths and gaps
The material strengths, gaps and priorities, set out in business terms
Framework score
Scored against the FinOps Foundation framework
Roadmap
Recommendations ordered by horizon, with an owner and success criteria
Engagement options
Two ways to scope an assessment
The assessment has one job: to change what happens next. Both options are scored the same way and produce the same deliverable, a set of findings and a plan in working order. The difference is whether you already know where the work is needed.
Focused assessment
A deep dive, when you know roughly where it hurts
A prioritised plan for one area · The cause behind the symptoms
For organisations that already know where the immediate problem sits, we assess that area in full, establish what is driving it, and set out the work in priority order.
Full assessment
A health check, when you are not sure where to look
Evidence for where to focus first · Including what you have not noticed yet
Where the starting point is not yet obvious, we assess every area together. Scoring them all at once lets the report rank what to address first, and show what each piece depends on.
What you receive
Three answers, one report
Capability mapping
Findings specific to your estate and operating model, set against the FinOps Foundation framework.
Where you stand
Your position against the FinOps Foundation framework, read for what is realistic at your stage.
Prioritised roadmap
Quick wins, medium-term structural improvements, and longer-horizon capability investments, ranked by impact and the resources required to execute.
The assessment has one job: to change what happens next.
Our methodology
From discovery to handover
A five-phase assessment producing findings and a prioritised roadmap.
Discovery
Joint workshops with the people closest to the spend, and a review of the reporting and governance material the organisation already has.
Evaluation
Scoring against the FinOps Foundation framework, with what is described checked against what the evidence shows.
Analysis
The findings are read for what they mean to the business: which gaps matter, what is driving them, and what each one is holding back.
Roadmap
Recommendations ordered across 30 days, 90 days and 6 to 12 months, each with an owner and success criteria.
Handover
The executive briefing for the leadership decision, and the working report for the team: the roadmap is theirs to run.
What we evaluate
Measured, explained, and put in order
Every domain of the FinOps Foundation framework, assessed in business language: where you stand, what it means, and what to work on first.
Understand usage and cost
Data ingestion, allocation, reporting, and anomaly management. The foundation every other capability depends on.
You learnwhether your data can be trusted to drive decisions.
Quantify business value
Planning and forecasting, budgeting, benchmarking, and unit economics.
You learnhow well spend connects to the outcomes it exists to serve.
Optimise usage and cost
Architecture efficiency, commitment purchasing, rate optimisation, and workload management.
You learnwhere optimisation decisions sit, and whether they carry context.
Manage the FinOps practice
Policy and governance, FinOps tools, education, chargeback mechanisms, and workload onboarding.
You learnwhether governance and ownership of spend hold when any one person moves on.
Intersecting disciplines
How FinOps connects with ITAM, ITFM, procurement, sustainability, security, and data management. We assess the organisational seams that determine whether FinOps scales across the business.
You learnwhether cost management can extend beyond a central team as spend grows.
Why Aureon
Why this works
Four principles shape an Aureon assessment.
Measured for your context
The reference point is your context: what a defensible position looks like at your stage, anchored to the FinOps Foundation framework.
Action over analysis
Every finding connects to a specific action with implementation guidance, structured so work can start immediately.
Action in 30 days
Immediate improvements scheduled within the first 30 days, separated from the longer-horizon structural work, so momentum builds while the wider programme is scoped.
Independent by design
Scored against the FinOps Foundation framework across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and hybrid estates, by an adviser with no tooling to sell.
Scope comes before commitment
Engagements are sized as investments and scoped to outcomes, not invoices for effort. Choose a focused or a full assessment; we will come back within one business day to arrange a scoping call, and nothing is committed until we have agreed the scope and the cost.
The deliverable
An executive briefing and a report your team can work from.
The briefing gives leadership the findings the decision turns on. The report gives your team the plan, from the first 30 days to the year ahead: what to address first, who owns each step, and how success is judged. Both come from joint workshops, so everyone hears the findings together.