Organisations waste an average of 32% of their cloud spend. In 10 minutes, know exactly where your budget is leaking — and get a prioritised roadmap to recover it.
32%
Avg Cloud Spend Wasted
4
FinOps Domains
10 min
To Complete
CFO-Ready
Report Output
Cloud adoption promised cost efficiency. For many organisations, it has delivered the opposite. Without structured FinOps practices, cloud spend grows faster than the value it delivers — driven by idle resources, over-provisioned instances, missing tagging governance, and no financial accountability across teams.
The FinOps Foundation estimates that organisations waste an average of 32% of cloud spend. For a $300K/year cloud bill, that is nearly $100,000 per year in recoverable cost — without changing a single workload.
Dashboards, tagging governance, cost allocation, and showback reporting
Rightsizing, reserved instances, spot usage, idle resource identification
Cost ownership, chargeback, review cadence, team accountability
Cloud budgeting, forecasting accuracy, anomaly alerting, commitment coverage
Use TACGauge to give clients a FinOps maturity baseline before scoping an optimisation engagement. The CFO-ready report output makes the business case for a FinOps programme easy to communicate at board level.
Start Free Trial — 3 Credits →A FinOps (Financial Operations) maturity assessment evaluates how effectively an organisation manages and optimises its cloud spending. It measures maturity across cost visibility, resource optimisation, governance, tagging, and financial accountability — identifying where cloud budget is being wasted and what processes need to be in place to control it.
Research from Gartner and the FinOps Foundation consistently shows that organisations waste between 30–35% of their cloud spend. For a business spending $200,000 per year on cloud, this represents $60,000–$70,000 in unnecessary costs annually. Common causes include idle resources, over-provisioned instances, lack of tagging governance, absent showback/chargeback processes, and no regular cost review cadence.
The assessment measures FinOps maturity across four domains: Cost Visibility (dashboards, tagging, allocation), Resource Optimisation (rightsizing, reserved instances, spot usage), Governance & Accountability (ownership, showback, chargeback, review cadence), and Financial Planning (budgeting, forecasting, anomaly alerting).
This assessment is designed for CTOs, CFOs, IT Directors, Cloud Architects, and FinOps practitioners responsible for cloud cost management. IT consultants and MSPs use it to give clients an objective baseline before scoping a FinOps or cloud optimisation engagement.
Yes. IT consultants and MSPs use TACGauge to run FinOps assessments for clients as part of cloud cost review or optimisation engagements. The assessment output gives the consultant a data-backed baseline to present to the client's CFO — making the business case for a FinOps programme much easier to communicate. Partners access assessments via the TACGauge Partner Programme with a free trial available.
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