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The Smarter Cloud Cost-Control Platform for Public Sector Teams

Cloud bills are increasing unpredictably, whereas public agencies have fixed annual budgets. Our platform creates transparency, regulation, and assured savings, enabling governments to provide dependable digital services without financial risk or waste.

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Why Uncontrolled Cloud Spend Is a Major Risk for the Public Sector?

Government systems deal with heavy spikes, audits, and old workloads. When cloud costs jump unexpectedly, budgets get strained, services slow down, and accountability becomes a challenge.

  1. Lack of cost ownership: when there are several departments with the same cloud account, no one is aware of who has created what resource. This misunderstanding leads to delays in the auditing process and budgetary approvals.
  2. Sudden spikes break fixed budgets: When it comes to tax filing, exam result days, or elections, cloud usage skyrockets immediately. These spikes will cause the agency to spend more than it had budgeted for the month.
  3. Obsolete IT systems introduce additional costs: many public systems were not designed to run in the cloud. They require more migration, testing and security work, which is costly than anticipated.
  4. Delays in approval processes: Teams are unable to make quick fixes even when they realise spending is high, as it takes days or weeks to secure approvals, and waste can still occur.
  5. Poor cloud cost management: Teams can provision more resources than they need to stay safe, which costs them money each month. In the absence of direction, expenses gradually increase without anyone paying attention.
  6. Additional compliance and audit controls are expensive: data residency, logging, monitoring, and government security standards will require additional cloud services, increasing costs by more than initially intended. This is exactly what Costimizer solves, we priortize your data and give you the maximum cloud cost reduction.

End budget leakage. Map every cent to your grants.

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How Our Platform Helps Public Agencies Control Costs

Predictable, consistent cloud expenditure
Predictable spending
We analyse usage across GCC, GI Cloud, NIC Cloud, Kubernetes, and on-prem systems to forecast spend and prevent surprise bills.
Complete cost visibility across all departments
Full visibility for every department
Every resource is automatically tagged. Auditors and teams can instantly see who used what, when, and why.
Compliance with government rules built in
Built-in compliance with government rules
Costimizer enforces tagging, budgets, approvals, and data-residency rules across all government cloud environments.
Reduced waste, manual labour
Lower waste and less manual work
We detect idle VMs, oversized clusters, unused storage, and unnecessary resources and clean them up automatically.
Real-time notifications of suspicious expenses
Instant alerts for unusual spend
If any service suddenly becomes costly on GCC, GI Cloud, NIC, Kubernetes, or on-prem we alert your team immediately and stop budget leakage.

A Purpose-Built Cloud Cost Toolkit for Public Sector Needs

1. Consolidated Billing & Discounts

  • Combine billing across agencies or departments to unlock shared discounts.
  • Apply public-sector pricing models without changing infrastructure.
  • Enable centralized visibility while keeping departmental autonomy.

2. Tagging & Cost Allocation

  • Auto-tag and allocate costs to correct departments, programs, and initiatives.
  • Solve the long-standing issue of untagged and shared resources.
  • Provide audit-ready reports with full financial traceability.

3. Governance & FinOps Workflows

  • Set approval rules for high-cost deployments.
  • Automate compliance checks and enforce internal financial policies.
  • Strengthen collaboration across finance, procurement, and IT teams.

4. Automated Resource Management

  • Detect idle VMs, unused volumes, and neglected snapshots.
  • Schedule cost-saving shutdowns outside working hours.
  • Suggest optimal instance types and configurations for efficiency.

5. Predictive Analytics & Anomaly Detection

  • Achieve high-accuracy spend forecasts to support annual budgeting.
  • Identify unusual spend patterns early with real-time alerts.
  • Remove the risk of end-of-month bill surprises.

6. Security & Compliance Reporting

  • Auto-generate compliance-focused cost reports for audits.
  • Highlight data residency issues or storage in disallowed regions.
  • Integrate with SIEM systems to unify cost + security insights.

7. Enterprise & Government Integrations

  • Connect easily with ERP, budgeting tools, ticketing systems, and collaboration platforms.
  • Provide a single, cross-agency view of cloud usage and spend.

The Traditional Cloud Approach vs. The Modern Public-Sector Approach

❌ The Old Way

âś… The New Way

Paying unpredictable retail cloud prices

Gaining access to pooled discounts and monthly predictable billing

Shared accounts with zero accountability

Cost tracking by department, scheme and grant with ownership

Delayed reactions to cost spikes shown only in month-end invoices

Real-time notifications about excessive spending, wrong settings, and unexpected workload

Budgets frequently overshoot due to seasonal demand peaks (tax filing, board results, elections)

Scaling and forecasting with accuracy and pre-approval on an annual budget basis

Long audit reconciliations because costs cannot be tied to programs

Cost allocation that is audit-ready and is allocated to fiscal codes, programs and grant IDs

Orphaned VMs, unused volumes, and old snapshots quietly consuming funds

Auto clean up and programmed shutdowns in accordance with government working hours

Replace budget guesswork with AI-driven forecasts.

Do's & Don'ts for Public Companies

âś… Dos

❌ Don'ts

Centralize cloud billing under IT or Finance to unlock pooled discounts.

Don’t let departments negotiate cloud contracts separately.

Set spending limits and control access for contractors and external vendors.

Don’t rely on contractors to manage cost on your behalf.

Enforce tagging linked to department codes, scheme codes, and grant IDs.

Don’t ignore untagged resources; they cause audit objections.

Set approval workflows that match procurement spending thresholds.

Don’t wait for year-end audits to discover overspending.

Review cloud costs monthly with finance, not only during audits.

Don’t allow deployments in non-approved regions that violate residency rules.

Create a small internal FinOps group to manage forecasting and chargebacks.

Don’t assume cloud migrations automatically reduce cost without planning.

Start With Costimizer Today

Your cloud cost optimization journey shouldn't wait anymore, there already many things on hold. Don't let your cloud budget hold you back even more.

Step 01: Secure Read-Only Setup
Integrate cloud accounts without downtime.
Step 02: Run a Controlled Pilot
Test one department or non-critical workload to get instant savings.
Step 03: Enable Consolidated Billing
Implement bulk discounts and single visibility.
Step 04: Train Teams
Deliver finance and engineering teams with dashboards and controls.

Deploy in 5 minutes

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this beneficial to smaller departments or local bodies?

Absolutely. Smaller units usually experience the most significant gains, since they cannot negotiate discounts on their own. The aggregate buying power generates instant savings.

How does this align with procurement and audit requirements?

We adhere to procurement procedures, provide audit documentation, and facilitate approval processes to ensure everything is in order.

What do you do to make sure that you are not violating data laws and residency regulations?

The platform highlights regional issues, tracks data flows, and generates reports to ensure teams comply with all local data policies.

Is this establishing any sort of vendor lock-in?

No. The multi-cloud comparison is transparent and does not rely on any single provider. You never fail to find cheaper or safer ones.

What does the agency need to invest in?

The percentage of savings or subscription fees that agencies usually pay is small. A pilot assists in estimating value before committing.

What is the rate at which we can observe any improvement?

Reductions in waste are seen within a few days; savings from discounts are seen in the following billing cycle; the forecast's accuracy is complete within 1-2 months.

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