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Cloud economics & AI infrastructure

Navigate infrastructure complexity with control.

Fitzroy helps organizations reduce cloud waste, strengthen backend systems, and prepare for the economic demands of AI-scale infrastructure.

$723.4B

Global public-cloud spend forecast in 2025

Source: Gartner

84%

Organizations naming cloud spend as a top challenge

Source: Flexera

63%

FinOps practices already managing AI spend

Source: FinOps Foundation

Market currents

The current is changing.

Cloud spending is expanding rapidly, while AI workloads introduce a more expensive and less forgiving class of infrastructure decisions.

Worldwide public cloud end-user spending (USD)

21.5%

Forecast growth
in 2025

Source: Gartner
(November 2024)

Gartner forecasts 21.5% growth in worldwide public-cloud end-user spending in 2025. AI adoption is accelerating the role of cloud infrastructure in business operations.

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What sits beneath the surface

Understand where value is created — and lost.

Global public-cloud market by service type (2025F)

The public-cloud market is now a major operating layer. SaaS remains the largest segment, while infrastructure and platform services increasingly carry the economic pressure created by AI-heavy workloads.

Source: Gartner 2025 public-cloud segment forecast.

SaaS
$299.1B
IaaS
$211.9B
PaaS
$208.6B
DaaS
$3.8B

Chart your route

Chart your current infrastructure economics.

An illustrative scenario, not a forecast or measured client result. Adjust the assumptions to explore the arithmetic.

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Monthly cloud spend

$500,000

$50,000$2,000,000

Assumed achievable spend reduction

25%

0%50%

Modeled impact under your assumptions

$1.5M

Modeled annual gross savings

$1.25M

Modeled first-year value

2.0

Simple payback in months

$4.25M

3-year cumulative value

Assumes immediate savings at constant workload and prices. Excludes added recurring costs, implementation ramp-up, taxes, financing, and discounting. Annual savings = monthly spend × assumed reduction × 12; first-year value subtracts implementation cost; simple payback divides implementation cost by monthly savings. Survey estimates do not validate these inputs.

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What the assessment examines

Look beyond the cloud bill.

The strongest savings opportunities usually sit at the intersection of architecture, workload behavior, and operating discipline.

01

Architecture drag

Over-provisioning, idle services, and fragile backend patterns.

02

Operating controls

Scaling rules, ownership gaps, and missing cost guardrails.

03

AI readiness

GPU utilization, scheduling pressure, and data-path bottlenecks.

The Fitzroy approach

From insight to impact.

1.  Chart the system

Map cloud spend, backend architecture, workload behavior, and AI infrastructure dependencies.

2.  Identify drag

Find avoidable cost, reliability risks, and operational inefficiencies.

3.  Build for control

Prioritize the improvements that create measurable value and a more scalable technical foundation.

Built for leaders in technology, finance, and operations who need a clearer path from infrastructure complexity to measurable value.

CloudBackendAIFinOps

A defined starting point

Cloud expense & reliability diagnostic

What drives spend, and which changes can reduce it without creating production risk?

Typically two working weeks; fee, access, deliverables, and acceptance criteria agreed in the statement of work.

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Build infrastructure that can carry the next stage of growth.

Start with an enterprise assessment of your cloud economics, backend architecture, and AI infrastructure readiness. Engagements begin at $7,500.

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