Committed Cost Savings
30%+
Target Cloud Spend
$15K – $150K USD/month
$20K – $150K USD/month
$20K – $150K USD/month
For Organisations
Cost optimisation measured against your initial baseline — ideal for organisations looking to establish foundational cloud spend discipline.
Deeper optimisation for organisations willing to modernise and adopt cloud-native services as recommended by Lumen.
Maximum savings for organisations ready to migrate to Alibaba Cloud and embrace cloud-native architecture at scale.
Terms
Includes VMware® vCenter, vCloud® Director, NSX® Manager, SDDC Manager and vCloud® availability.
Requires customer agreement to transfer cloud resale and to transfer managed services to Lumen.
Customer willing to modernize and adopt cloud-native services as recommended by Lumen.
Requires customer agreement to transfer cloud resale and managed services to Lumen.
Customer willing to migrate to Alibaba Cloud and adopt cloud-native services as recommended by Lumen.
Requires customer agreement to transfer cloud resale and managed services to Lumen.
* Professional services fee waived for a limited period across all tiers.
Savings vary by maturity and environment complexity. Lumen's Cloud FinOps service tiers deliver committed annualised savings of 5–30%+, depending on the scope of engagement — from foundational cost discipline to full cloud-native modernisation.
Traditional cost management focuses on spending less. FinOps focuses on spending right — aligning cloud investments with business outcomes. A mature FinOps practice may increase spend in strategic areas while eliminating waste elsewhere, delivering higher overall ROI.
Lumen's complimentary Cloud FinOps Assessment Workshop takes approximately 3 hours across two structured phases — a business alignment session and a technical deep-dive — with no obligation to proceed further.
Absolutely. With 98% of FinOps teams now managing AI spend, Lumen helps organisations govern GPU-driven costs, consumption-based AI models, and experimental workloads — preventing pilot projects from becoming uncontrolled budget blowouts.