FinOps for Azure
Stratus reads your cost export and tells you what the bill is really doing — which spend has no owner, where the charge stopped matching the quote, and what is removable, priced from real rates rather than a black-box estimate. Every figure traceable, every currency kept apart.
The assessment runs on a synthetic sample estate — real findings, invented data. Reading your own cost export is part of a demo.
What it finds
Not a dashboard of everything. Three domains, each with a measurement behind it and an honest empty state where the data runs out.
Know whose spend is whose. Untagged and unallocated cost is the reason most budgets cannot be defended, and it is the first thing the assessment measures.
Reconcile what you were charged against what you were quoted. Gross-to-net gaps and unexplained credits are where a bill quietly stops adding up.
Removable spend, priced from real rates rather than a black-box estimate — and an Optimization Index you can recompute by hand from the two numbers underneath it.
How it works
Start with a sample estate — no account, nothing to upload. When you want your own numbers, point it at your export and it parses in a web worker, on your machine.
Three indices, ranked findings and the spend behind each one. Per currency throughout, with an honest empty state anywhere the export cannot answer the question.
Commitment modelling, savings realization tracking, scheduled reporting and the full platform — the parts that need more than one export and a browser.
The assessment’s three promises
The assessment runs in a worker on your machine. There is no endpoint on this service that accepts a cost figure, and a test asserts zero cost-data requests on every build.
Where the data runs out, the screen says so. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and no index is shown that its own inputs cannot support.
A multi-currency estate is reported per currency. There is no pooled total, because converting without a stated rate and date would be a number nobody could check.
Inform, Optimize and Operate are yours in the assessment. Two screens need the full platform — each says so plainly rather than faking a preview.
Why Stratus
Most FinOps tooling asks you to trust a number. This one asks you to check it.
| Dimension | Meridian Stratus | Legacy FinOps tooling |
|---|---|---|
| Where your cost data goes | Nowhere. The assessment parses and scores in your browser, and a demo reads your export in the room with you. | Uploaded to a vendor tenant before you see a number. |
| How savings are priced | From published rates, with the arithmetic shown beside the figure. | Black-box estimates you cannot reproduce or challenge. |
| The efficiency score | Deterministic and explainable — savings over addressable spend, recomputable by hand. | An opaque composite (Apptio's COIN, and scores like it) whose inputs are not published. |
| Multi-currency estates | Scored per currency. No figure ever sums or ratios across them without a rate. | Silently pooled, so a US$ rate-card saving lands against £ spend. |
| What happens to missing data | An honest empty state that names what the export could not answer. | An estimate presented with the same confidence as a measurement. |
| Access to your environment | Read-only by construction — Stratus never touches your cloud at all. | Write access requested up front, to act on its own recommendations. |
Book a demo for the full platform, or run the assessment on sample data right now and decide afterwards.
Questions
No. The sample assessment runs entirely in a web worker on your machine, and there is no endpoint on this service that accepts a cost figure — an automated test asserts zero cost-data requests on every build. Your own export is read during a demo, which is a conversation rather than an upload.
Azure-first today, via FOCUS-conformant and native cost exports. The engine normalises to a provider-neutral shape, so other providers are a matter of an importer rather than a rewrite — but Azure is what is proven, and claiming more than that would be the kind of thing this product exists not to do.
No. It reads a cost export you already have. It requests no credentials, holds no connection and takes no action in your environment — there is nothing for it to change.
No. The sample assessment runs with no account at all. Assessing your own export asks for a work email so the result can be tied to an organisation — that is the only gate, and it comes after you have seen what the tool does.
Meridian Stratus, the paid platform, is the system that stores customer data and is where a compliance conversation belongs — ask us in the demo and we will show you current status and evidence rather than a badge on a marketing page. The sample assessment stores no cost data anywhere, so there is nothing of yours in scope for it.