Symbiosis Cloud Platform covers FinOps with ownership and unit economics, multi-cloud inventory and policy, and landing-zone blueprints with security and cost guardrails from day one. Add Kubernetes and platform engineering where it earns the complexity, plus an Internal Developer Platform with templates and paved roads, reliability and SLO tooling, and drift detection. Hand-offs from Modernize Studio and Secure. We engineer cost into the landing zone so it isn't only audited after the bill arrives.
The platform team's job is to make the right way the easy way. This product is that job, productized: paved roads for developers, visible costs for finance, and one inventory for security.
Month one always looks fine. Month nine, after autoscaling meets forgotten dev environments and cross-region transfer, is where FinOps discipline pays. Tagging, budgets, and unit economics beat absolute bills. A tool without a monthly habit becomes a very accurate report of ongoing waste.
Kubernetes is a power tool, not a requirement. We wrap clusters in an IDP so product teams ship without becoming infrastructure experts, and we'll talk you out of Kubernetes when three apps and five engineers would be happier on managed containers or serverless.
FinOps OS
Waste by category (rightsizing, scheduling, storage, orphans), owners attached, tracked savings, commitment strategy, monthly cadence.
Unit economics
Cost per order, tenant, environment, or 1k requests - growth should raise spend; ratios reveal waste.
Multi-cloud inventory
Normalize accounts/projects/subscriptions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and others - one pane of operational truth.
Policy & tagging fabric
Policy-as-code guardrails (security, tagging, spend) from day one; drift detection and remediate workflows.
Landing zone blueprints
Identity-first orgs, network patterns, logging, budgets, and baselines - reusable, versioned, auditable.
Internal Developer Platform
Golden-path templates, self-service environments, paved roads with guardrails - the right way is the easy way.
Kubernetes platform layer
Cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, upgrades, add-ons - only where fleet scale justifies it; managed control planes preferred.
Observability & SLO kit
Error budgets, golden signals, alert routing - reliability reviewed beside cost.
Identity & access plane
SSO/OIDC, workload identity, least-privilege roles, break-glass with audit.
Secrets & key discipline
Vault patterns, rotation, encryption baselines - no standing secrets in repos or agent configs.
Backup / DR game-days
RTO/RPO targets, architectures at known cost, rehearsed restores - not PDF hope.
Environment lifecycle
Ephemeral preview/dev scheduling, TTL, orphan cleanup - forgotten sandboxes stop burning money.
Migration wave board
6R dispositions, wave plans, post-migration cost/security baselines - Modernize handoff.
Secure bridge
Posture and compliance evidence shared with Symbiosis Secure during transform and steady state.
Analytics handoff
Certified cloud cost/reliability metrics into Symbiosis Analytics semantic layer.
Agent Cloud for platform ops
Governed agents that open rightsizing PRs, schedule idle envs, draft runbooks - humans approve.
Marketplace & SaaS sprawl view
Shadow IT / SaaS spend adjacent to IaaS - one conversation with finance.
Compliance packs
Control mappings and evidence exports for cloud baselines enterprises expect.
Showback / chargeback
Allocate spend to teams/products with fair shared-service splits.
Provider-native coexistence
Sits above AWS/Azure/GCP tools - normalizes and adds IDP/FinOps habit, doesn't pretend to replace every console.
FINOPS PLANE
Visibility, waste categories, unit economics, commitments, monthly habit loops.
ESTATE INVENTORY
Multi-cloud resource graph, tagging health, orphan detection.
LANDING ZONE OS
Blueprints, policy-as-code, budgets, identity, logging baselines.
IDP / PAVED ROADS
Templates, self-service envs, golden paths, environment TTLs.
RUNTIME PLATFORMS
K8s-where-earned, managed containers/serverless guidance, upgrades.
RELIABILITY KIT
SLO/error budgets, observability baselines, DR game-days.
MIGRATE BRIDGE
6R wave board, post-migration baselines, Modernize Studio handoff.
SECURE & AGENT OPS
Posture bridge, compliance packs, governed platform agents.
Investment is bespoke to estate size, compliance needs, and deployment shape - book a demo and we'll map the right fit.
STARTER
- → Cost visibility + waste categories
- → Tagging health
- → Rightsizing/scheduling recommendations
- → Basic inventory dashboard
- → Monthly FinOps report template
BUSINESS
- → Everything in Starter
- → Unit economics & showback
- → Landing zone blueprints
- → IDP golden paths + env TTL
- → Policy-as-code + drift
- → Multi-account/-subscription views
- → Analytics cost metrics handoff
ENTERPRISE
- → Everything in Business
- → True multi-cloud normalize
- → K8s platform layer (when earned)
- → DR game-day kit
- → Secure compliance packs
- → Governed platform agents
- → Private / dedicated control-plane options
Cloud Platform, answered
Does it replace our cloud provider's tools?
It sits above them - normalizing inventory, cost, and policy across accounts and providers, and adding the developer-experience and FinOps habit layers providers don't ship as a product.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Maybe. Many services, multiple teams, variable traffic - it can pay. Three apps and five engineers - managed containers or serverless often win. We're happy to talk you out of Kubernetes.
How fast can FinOps find savings?
Estates without a FinOps pass typically find material savings in the mechanical layer (rightsizing, scheduling, storage, orphans) in the first month - then commitments and architecture go further. The lasting fix is monthly ownership cadence.
Is tooling enough?
You need attribution, visibility, and a monthly habit. Tooling accelerates that; a tool without the habit is an accurate report of ongoing waste.
How does this relate to Modernize Studio?
Modernize decides what to change and proves cutovers; Cloud Platform lands workloads into governed landing zones with cost and security engineered in - and keeps the bill honest afterward.
Can agents change our cloud?
Governed Agent Cloud agents can propose or, under policy, apply bounded actions (schedule idle envs, open rightsizing PRs). Kill-switch and audit apply - no unsupervised fleet rewrites.
See it against your reality.
A 30-minute walkthrough with an engineer who builds it - your use case, not a script.