Cloud & Digital Engineering
Cloud governance and FinOps
Cloud Center of Excellence
Cloud that is governed, owned and paid for on purpose.
The Cloud Center of Excellence is GTech’s cloud office. It builds the operating model, the guardrails and the FinOps discipline that let an organization move to cloud quickly without losing control of cost, security or sovereignty, and it reports cloud value where leadership already looks.
Highlights
- One operating model for every cloud, provider and team
- Cloud cost owned by use case, with savings tracked
- Guardrails for security, sovereignty and architecture from day one
Cloud adoption outruns the rules that should govern it.
Teams move workloads to cloud faster than the organization agrees how cloud should be bought, built, secured and paid for. Accounts multiply, each team sets its own standards, and the monthly bill arrives without anyone owning its lines.
The result is familiar: costs that rise faster than value, security reviews that come after the build, and a cloud estate that is hard to explain to the board. Cloud needs an office that owns it, not only an engineering team that uses it.
Capability, governance and FinOps in one office.
The Cloud Center of Excellence brings together the people, the rules and the measures that make cloud a managed asset.
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Operating model
Who decides, who builds and who pays for cloud, with clear roles between the office, the platform team and the business.
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Guardrails and standards
Landing zones, reference architectures and policies for security, data residency and resilience, applied before workloads move.
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FinOps
Cost made visible by use case and owner, budgets and alerts, and the savings each optimization delivers.
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Cloud skills
Role-based learning paths and communities of practice, so capability grows inside the organization.
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Migration and adoption
A portfolio of workloads ranked by value and readiness, moved in waves and measured after the move.
Stood up with your team, then run by it.
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Assess
The current estate, spend, skills and policies, and where cloud should create value first.
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Design
The office’s mandate, roles, guardrails and FinOps model, agreed with leadership.
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Launch
The office goes live on priority workloads, with cost and governance reported from the first month.
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Transfer
GTech runs the office alongside your team until your people run it on their own.
Cloud value, shown where leadership looks.
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Cost that is owned
Every line of the bill has an owner and a use case, so spend can be questioned and cut with confidence.
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Savings on record
Each optimization is measured against a baseline and reported as value, not as a promise.
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Control without delay
Guardrails built into the platform mean teams move fast inside the rules, not around them.
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Connected to the command center
Cloud cost, savings and governance status flow into ECC 360 and HECC 360, and cost spikes above budget open actions for their owners.
Built for the way you run cloud.
The office adapts to your providers, your sovereignty requirements and your sector.
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Government and public sector
For ministries and authorities moving to sovereign and commercial cloud, with data residency and national cloud policies built into the guardrails.
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Enterprise and financial services
For groups, banks and insurers running several providers, where FinOps and regulatory controls carry the most weight.
Give cloud an office that owns it.
A working session reviews your cloud estate and spend, and shows how the Cloud Center of Excellence would run for you.