SKYXOPS Edge · Track 3

Proactive Spend Controls: budgets enforced before the money moves.

Shift-left cost checks and budget guardrails in the pull request, for teams who find out what a change cost only when the invoice arrives.

Start the Proactive Spend Controls track
Begins with the free two-week Edge assessment. You keep the Edge Report either way.

The problem

Cost is discovered on the invoice

The bill arrives weeks after the decision that caused it, when nothing can be changed at no cost.

The engineer never sees the number

The one person who could still change the outcome has no cost signal in the tools where the decision is made.

Monthly reviews come too late

By the time spend is reviewed, the change is live and the money is committed.

What we do

The Edge Report tells you what your merges cost. This track makes sure it does not happen again.

AssessWeeks 1–2 · $0
Merge replay, pipeline and IaC review
DesignWeek 3
Thresholds and policy set, agreed with you
ImplementWeeks 4–6
Cost Guardrails live across your pipelines
EnforceOngoing
Decisions returned to your pipeline; your team keeps authority

What you get

Cost Guardrails live in your pipelines

Every infrastructure change priced in the pull request, with the decision returned to your CI/CD pipeline before the merge.

A policy set your team owns

Thresholds by budget scope, and you configure whether a breach blocks, warns, or requires an override.

An engineering runbook

How the guardrails work, how to tune them, and what to do when one fires. Written for your engineers, kept by them.

The merge-replay baseline

From the free assessment: every merge from last quarter, costed. Yours whether or not you continue.
Assess
2 weeks
FREE
Build
8–12 weeks to a live production workload
continues only if you choose the track
4–6 weeksto live enforcement
Read-onlynever writes to your repo
Yoursyour pipeline decides

Engagement investment and procurement

Investment. Scope and price are agreed per engagement rather than published, because the work is sized to your estimate volume and cloud footprint. Tell us what you are running and we will come back with a scoped quote. Ask for a quote.

AWS funding. Eligible engagements may qualify for AWS funding programs including the Migration Acceleration Program, which now covers generative AI and modernization work. We assess eligibility and manage the funding request with your AWS account team.

Azure and GCP. Equivalent partner funding assessed per engagement.

Procurement. Available through AWS Marketplace, including private offers and milestone billing.

Why teams pick us

We price before you build

The one argument no consultancy can make: the bill is known before the work starts.

Named senior engineers

The people in the readout are the people who do the work. No bench.

The platform stays

You leave with a running FinOps platform, not a deck. Six months of Standard included.

This track starts free, and you keep the platform.

The two-week Edge assessment costs nothing, the Edge Report is yours, and every assessment includes 6 months of SKYXOPS Standard, with or without us afterwards. Many engagements qualify for AWS partner funding, which can make the whole track free; we check eligibility during the assessment.

Read-only. Scoped. Nothing leaves your account.

We request a read-only role: IAM ReadOnlyAccess on AWS, Reader on Azure, Viewer on GCP. Pipeline access is separate, optional, and read-only.

We analyze billing data, resource metadata, and pipeline configuration. We do not access application data, customer data, or production workloads. No production data leaves your environment.

Access is revocable at any time and terminates at the end of the engagement.

What this is not

No sales team on the readout call

A senior engineer presents the findings. Nobody else joins.

No commitment required

No contract, and nothing that quietly converts to paid.

The report is yours regardless

Whatever you decide afterwards, you keep it.

If there is nothing worth doing, we will tell you

We would rather say so in week two than sell you an engagement.

Questions

Yes. Cost Guardrails reads the infrastructure change in the pull request, projects the monthly cost from a live rate card, and returns a decision to your CI/CD pipeline before the merge happens. The engineer sees the cost impact in the tool they are already working in.

Moving the cost decision earlier, to the point where the change is still a proposal. Conventional cost tooling reports spend after the invoice arrives. Shift-left FinOps prices the change while it can still be altered at no cost.

No. Cost Guardrails returns a decision to your pipeline. Your pipeline decides what happens next, and you configure whether a breach is a hard block, a warning, or something requiring an override. The authority stays with your team.

No. Cost Guardrails returns its result to whatever called it, which is normally the pipeline, and records what it priced on the SKYXOPS side. It does not open pull requests, post comments, or change files in your source control.

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All three begin with the same free assessment. The Edge Report.

Early engagements include a US-based fintech running $3M a year across AWS and Azure.