Cloud Optimisation & Continuous Improvement for greater efficiency, transparency and stability

The cloud is up and running. But is it really delivering on its full potential? Cost control, resilience, performance and carbon footprint determine whether your cloud investment pays off. That’s exactly where we come in.

Our Cloud Optimisation Solutions work across providers, from AWS to Azure and STACKIT, right through to cloud-native setups. Methodologically, we draw on established architectural principles and maturity models. The approach remains consistent; it is the specific tools and levers that are adapted.

Why optimisation can’t wait

Those who merely operate the cloud rather than actively managing it end up paying the price. First financially, then operationally, then in regulatory terms.

1. Escalating costs

Without FinOps discipline, cloud bills grow faster than business revenue. Unused resources, inappropriate purchasing models and a lack of showback make it impossible to keep track of costs.

2. Increasing downtime

Without clear reliability targets and systematic resilience engineering, outages become more costly and last longer. Recovery strategies exist on slides, but not in an emergency.

3. Operational blind spots

Heterogeneous observability or a lack of telemetry standards delays every fault analysis. MTTR rises, and the customer experience suffers.

4. Performance bottlenecks during peak loads

Architectures that are not designed for elastic scaling fail precisely when the business needs them most.

5. Gaps in sustainability and compliance

Regulatory authorities, auditors and major clients are increasingly requesting robust data on the IT carbon footprint. Organisations that do not embed sustainability and auditability into their cloud architecture will be unable to provide this data.

Our services

Our services can be combined in a modular way and tailored to your specific cloud environment.

Cost and Value Optimisation (FinOps)

Control cloud expenditure. Make the value of the cloud visible.

Cloud costs rarely spiral out of control due to a single large item, but rather because of many small ones. We establish a FinOps framework that maps every expenditure to a business objective and breaks it down to the cost per customer or per transaction. Provider-agnostic and compatible with your existing financial management systems. You can see where budget is being wasted and how reliable your forecast is. Unused capacity is immediately apparent.

Reliability & Resilience

Stability as a business factor.

An outage costs not only uptime, but also revenue, trust and, in a regulated environment, the next regulatory audit. We set binding recovery targets, in hours and minutes rather than mere good intentions, and verify them through regular resilience tests. This way, you know in advance how quickly a system will be back up and running and the maximum amount of data that could be lost in an emergency, rather than finding out when the emergency actually strikes.

Observability & Operations Enablement

Full transparency. Respond more quickly.

You can’t manage what you can’t see. A unified telemetry model comprising metrics, logs and traces makes risks visible before they turn into incidents. The time taken to detect and resolve a fault is significantly reduced, and your operations are no longer overwhelmed by alerts that nobody needs.

Excellence in Performance and Scalability

When the load comes, the system holds up.

If the application crashes at the very moment of peak load, you lose both revenue and customers. We design architectures based on load testing and profiling, not on gut feeling, and keep response times stable even for the slowest queries. Scaling thus becomes a predictable factor, and every euro spent on computing power is demonstrably backed by performance.

Sustainable Cloud

Efficiency that also makes a difference to the environment.

Sustainability has long been a business requirement. EU reporting obligations, climate criteria in tenders from major clients and questions from investors are all affecting many companies at the same time. We also assess every optimisation decision through the lens of the CO₂ lever, which has a dual impact: economic and environmental. The end result is a robust metric for the CO₂ intensity of your workloads that stands up to scrutiny, rather than a rough estimate.

Continuous Cloud Optimisation Programme

Optimisation as a continuous process.

The cloud is not a project, but an operating model. We combine cost, resilience, observability, performance and sustainability into an ongoing service and start from where you are today. We determine your maturity level through a lightweight architectural review in accordance with ISO 25010, which immediately results in a prioritised roadmap. From there, you progress step by step, from the initial clean-up to fully optimised operations.

Expert opinion

“The cloud is our tool for developing bespoke solutions that set companies apart.”

Dr Daniel Chernuchin
, Vice President of Cloud – Software Factory
, Materna SE

Your benefits

With Cloud Optimisation & Continuous Improvement, you can make your existing cloud environment more manageable, more efficient and better equipped for the future. We help you identify opportunities for optimisation, prioritise actions and embed improvements into your day-to-day operations on a long-term basis.

Clearer decisions

You will gain a solid basis for decision-making regarding your cloud environment. Costs, usage, performance, availability and sustainability will become transparent, enabling you to assess, prioritise and manage them more effectively.

More efficient use

Existing resources, services and operating models are being developed further in a targeted manner. This allows you to get more value out of your cloud, without having to start the optimisation process from scratch every time.

Responsiveness

Vulnerabilities, risks and bottlenecks can be identified at an earlier stage. This enables teams to respond more quickly, operate services more reliably and better secure business-critical applications.

Continuity

Optimisation is not seen as a one-off measure, but as an integral part of your cloud operations. This ensures that your cloud remains high-performing even in the face of new requirements, growing usage and changing conditions.

That’s why Materna...

Materna helps you to derive greater value from your existing cloud environment in the long term. We combine cross-provider cloud expertise with tried-and-tested methods, architectural principles and maturity models. This results in optimisation measures that are tailored to your IT landscape, your operational processes and your business objectives.

Cross-provider expertise

We optimise cloud environments regardless of the provider – from AWS and Microsoft Azure to STACKIT and cloud-native platforms. This means you receive recommendations that are tailored to your architecture and are not tied to specific technologies.

Well-structured and tried and tested

We work with established architectural principles, best practices and maturity models. This ensures a transparent approach – from analysis right through to implementation.

A holistic approach

Cost, performance, resilience and sustainability go hand in hand. Materna assesses these aspects in conjunction with one another and highlights which levers deliver the greatest added value for your cloud investment.

Continuous improvement

We view cloud optimisation as an ongoing process. Working together, we regularly identify new opportunities in terms of costs, performance, resilience and sustainability, and embed these improvements permanently into your operational models.

Interdisciplinary teams

At our company, digital natives, specialist architects and experienced project managers work hand in hand to find the right solution for you.

Long-term partnership and support

We support you throughout the entire lifecycle of your cloud solutions, offer ongoing advice and ensure that your systems are always up to date.

Our partners for your transformation

As an independent partner to leading hyperscalers, European cloud providers and technology providers such as Red Hat and STACKIT, we always find the best solution for you, both technologically and economically.

AWS

Google Cloud

IONOS

Microsoft Azure

Red Hat

STACKIT

Let’s go into detail

We provide transparency regarding cloud expenditure and identify cost drivers and unused resources. Using tried-and-tested FinOps methods, we help you utilise cloud resources efficiently, manage budgets more effectively and optimise costs in the long term, without limiting your ability to innovate.

By analysing operational data, architectures and workloads, we identify bottlenecks and opportunities for optimisation. The aim is to create a high-performance, stable and resilient cloud environment that consistently meets your organisation’s business requirements.

Many organisations face the challenge that their cloud environments have grown over the years and have become difficult to manage. We help them to standardise structures, governance and operating models, reduce complexity and make cloud usage more transparent.

Typical outcomes include greater cost transparency, improved security and governance structures, optimised operational processes, better utilisation of resources, and concrete measures for the technological and organisational development of your cloud environment.

Cloud platforms are constantly evolving. That is why we view cloud optimisation as an ongoing process. Together, we establish mechanisms to regularly assess new technologies, optimisation opportunities and changing requirements, and to integrate them effectively into the cloud landscape.