Achieve top 3 priorities faster

The cloud has evolved into a space not just for business operations but for scaling, experimenting, and innovating. By 2025, many organisations are discovering that the true strength of the cloud goes beyond flexibility—it lies in financial visibility.

The FinOps Foundation’s State of FinOps 2025 report highlights three critical priorities that companies worldwide are focusing on:

• Optimising Workloads & Minimising Waste
• Complete Allocation of Cloud Expenditure
• Reliable Spend Forecasting

These priorities signify a transition from mere expenditure tracking to promoting intelligent and sustainable cloud utilisation.

If you’re utilising Azure, Turbo360 is your ally. Crafted as a FinOps-native platform for Azure, Turbo360 provides insights that not only inform you about your cloud activities but also empowers you to take action.

Let’s delve into each priority and see how Turbo360 can help you achieve your goals more efficiently.

Priority #1: Optimising Workloads & Minimising Waste

Importance

Cloud workload optimisation has become a strategic necessity rather than just an engineering endeavour. Each underutilised virtual machine (VM), dormant app service, or oversized database impacts your bottom line. Often, waste is concealed in underused services, obsolete disks, or forgotten resources.

How Turbo360 Assists

Turbo360 simplifies the identification and elimination of waste, ensuring performance and availability are never compromised. Here’s how:

1. Continuous Optimisation Engine

The optimisation engine continuously scans your Azure resources, highlighting:

• Underused VMs and app services
• Idle resources (like detached disks and public IPs)
• Over-provisioned databases or costly SKUs that don’t align with actual usage

Get insights daily rather than waiting for month-end performance reviews.

2. Automated Actions & Scheduling

After waste identification, you can:

• Automatically suspend resources outside working hours
• Schedule deactivation of non-production environments over weekends
• Implement auto-scaling rules based on actual demand

These policies are entirely customisable; you decide what is automated and what requires approval.

3. Rightsizing Recommendations

Turbo360 delivers SKU-level recommendations, advising on more cost-effective alternatives without compromising performance. For example, if you have a Standard_D8s_v3 VM operating at just 15% capacity, we will recommend a smaller instance that suits your needs, along with anticipated monthly savings.

4. What-If Simulation

Curious about how a change might pan out? Our simulation feature enables you to model potential cost savings prior to implementing any modifications, thus reducing risk and instilling confidence within teams.

Outcome: By reducing Azure waste, enhancing resource efficiency, and saving thousands, you won’t need to sift through logs or dashboards.

Priority #2: Complete Allocation of Cloud Expenditure

Importance

Lack of full allocation turns cloud bills into a mystery. Finance teams struggle to determine expenditure, while engineering teams lack visibility on the cost implications of their actions. Shared resources often remain as “unallocated” costs.

This opacity generates friction, delays decision-making, and renders accountability virtually impossible.

How Turbo360 Assists

Turbo360 is designed to ensure that cloud expenditures are traceable and accountable, regardless of your organisational configuration.

1. Business Mapping Engine

Every Azure expense can be assigned—down to the resource level—to:

• Business Units
• Products or Services
• Teams or Departments
• Environments (Development, QA, Production)
• Customers or Projects

Utilise native Azure tags or establish custom rules for consistent labelling across environments.

2. Shared Cost Allocation

Addressing shared infrastructure can be a challenge—Turbo360 enables you to:

• Distribute costs using fixed percentages
• Create custom allocation strategies tailored to your business

These shared costs are now categorised fairly, eliminating the “uncategorised” label.

3. Showback & Chargeback Reports

Produce clear, department-specific reports that:

• Detail actual cloud utilisation and costs
• Include shared costs distribution
• Highlight adherence to budgets

These reports cater to various stakeholders—from engineers to CFOs. You can also export them to Excel or PDF for straightforward sharing.

Priority #3: Reliable Spend Forecasting

Importance

Cloud budgeting isn’t a one-off task; it should be a continuous effort accounting for:

• Seasonal fluctuations
• Rapid scaling
• Ad-hoc projects
• Unpredictable resource usage

Inaccurate forecasting can lead to either excessive budgeting or unexpected overruns.

How Turbo360 Assists

Our platform makes forecasting both dynamic and data-driven.

1. Trend-Based Forecasting

Turbo360 reviews your last 3, 6, or 12 months of usage data to predict future expenditures. We consider:

• Growth trajectories
• Seasonal patterns
• Historical anomalies
• Resource allocation habits

These projections are insightful and grounded in tangible usage data—no more vague assumptions.

2. Forecast by Any Dimension

Forecast expenditures by:

• Business Unit
• Product
• Region
• Environment
• Team or Application

This level of detail allows each team to better plan their budget and monitor performance over time.

3. Real-Time Budget Tracking

Set budgets for any team, app, or service. Turbo360 monitors these budgets in real time and sends alerts when:

• 75% of the budget is utilized
• Projected spending is set to exceed the budget
• Unexpected cost spikes are detected

Think of it as having a virtual FinOps safety net monitoring your cloud usage around the clock.

4. Anomaly Detection with Root Cause Analysis

If costs deviate from forecasts, Turbo360 not only alerts you but explains why. For instance, a new deployment could trigger a scale-up, or an application may unexpectedly start using a higher-tier service.

We identify root causes rather than simply noting discrepancies.

Outcome: With accurate forecasts, you can proactively plan and avoid crisis management.

Turbo360: The FinOps Platform Designed for Azure

Let’s face it—while many tools offer data, Turbo360 gives you context, control, and confidence. Whether you’re a cloud engineer, FinOps leader, or CFO, Turbo360 aids you in:

• Reducing cloud waste without disruption
• Precisely allocating every dollar spent
• Accurately forecasting expenses to prevent surprises
• Fostering a culture of cost accountability

And the icing on the cake? You don’t need to be a FinOps expert to navigate it successfully.