Capacitas

24/10/2025

Building Cloud Resilience: Lessons from the AWS Outage.

When AWS stumbled this week, much of the internet stumbled with it. Apps froze. Payments failed. Services timed out. For most people, it was an inconvenience. For the businesses that run on AWS, it was a high-stakes reminder of how fragile digital scale can be.

Even the most mature cloud platforms are not immune to failure. When something as fundamental as DNS falters, it can ripple across thousands of systems in seconds. The question is not whether it will happen again — it is how prepared you are when it does.

Useful insight from our Head of Service Design. Thomas Barns;

Learning from the Latest Outage. Events like this week’s AWS disruption highlight one clear truth: resilience must be designed, not assumed.

17/07/2025

Capacitas secures strategic investment from Pelican Capital to drive next-phase growth in cloud consulting!

Capacitas, the leading London-based cloud transformation consultancy, has announced a strategic investment from Pelican Capital, a private equity firm focused on tech and tech-enabled services. The partnership marks a pivotal step in Capacitas’ journey to accelerate growth, expand its service portfolio, and deliver even greater value to enterprise and private equity clients navigating the rapidly evolving cloud landscape.

Pelican Capital’s investment will support Capacitas in capitalising on strong market tailwinds, including the explosive growth of cloud and AI adoption. The partnership will also enable further investment in talent, service innovation, and go-to-market strategy.

“We are delighted to partner with the exceptional team at Capacitas,” says Anthony Francis, partner at Pelican Capital. “Cloud optimisation represents a critical need for businesses of all sizes as they navigate increasingly complex multi-cloud environments. Capacitas' proven track record of delivering tangible results for clients, combined with their deep technical expertise, positions them perfectly to capitalise on the significant growth opportunities in this market.”

For over two decades, Capacitas has been at the forefront of helping organisations bring order to digital complexity, enabling resilience, efficiency, and competitive advantage through rigorous engineering, data-driven insight and deep technical knowledge. To date, Capacitas has delivered over £100m of cloud cost reduction to their customers, including Qualtrics, Cegid, JAGGAER and the portfolio companies of Silverlake and Cinven, achieving 4x the cost savings compared to conventional optimisation techniques.

In addition, Capacitas’ award-winning partnership with easyJet has ensured the stability of the airline’s systems during the peaks of global disruption. Capacitas has also worked with the UK Health Security Agency, optimising its technology platforms to scale efficiently in response to the Covid pandemic.

“Partnering with Pelican Capital is a natural evolution for Capacitas,” says Sameena Hassam, CEO of Capacitas. “Their belief in our mission and their track record in supporting technology businesses will help us to build on our reputation as the trusted partner for organisations on their cloud and AI journey. As we scale our teams, expand our services in technology optimisation and sharpen our automation toolkits, we will help more organisations to go beyond the current expectations of their technology platforms. As always, delivering the highest quality of service, through true partnership with our customers, remains at our heart.”

Capacitas’ leadership team will remain at the helm, with the same vision and dedication to clients.

Read the full press release here:

Capacitas announces strategic investment from Pelican Capital to accelerate cloud consulting growth, service innovation, and AI-driven transformation.

17/02/2025

Beyond FinOps: Addressing The Missing Pieces In Cloud Cost Optimisation.

FinOps has emerged as a valuable methodology for organisations seeking to optimise their cloud costs. It provides visibility, accountability, and improved resource management. Many organisations are on what is called rate optimisation, which is focused on getting discounts through Reserved Instances, Saving Plans, Volume discounts and EDPs.

While these are good levers to pull, they can limit the amount you can save on your cloud bill because rate optimisation doesn't address waste. Eliminating unused resources and rightsizing does go some way to address waste, however, to truly achieve sustainable cloud cost control, you need to go a bit deeper. That is because FinOps assumes that all workloads are valid and provides business value, but this is rarely the case.

So, what can help?

Read our blog for full details

FinOps is a as a valuable methodology for organisations seeking to optimise their cloud costs. It provides visibility, accountability, and improved resource management.

23/08/2024

❌ Lack of prioritisation, lack of capability, and lack of governance. You've likely encountered at least one of these top roadblocks when trying to create a cost-efficient culture with your cloud estate. ☁️

None of these look the same, and each requires a different solution to overcome them.

🗣 Consultant Sarah Hurley offers valuable insight into identifying and rectifying these roadblocks, helping you to achieve a cost-efficient culture with long-term sustainable benefits in her latest blog.

Read her full blog here! https://www.capacitas.co.uk/insights/unlock-success-overcome-the-3-biggest-roadblocks-to-a-thriving-cost-efficient-culture

In this blog, we look at the three most common challenges to creating a cost-efficient culture and different ways to overcome them.

14/08/2024

🎦 Join Jeff Cates, CEO at Achievers, Stephen Griffin, Director of Site Reliability Engineering at Achievers, and Jason Cross, Principal Consultant at Capacitas, in this live webinar as they discuss how Achievers overcame internal objections, complex technical hurdles, and aligned stakeholders with a new approach.

📅 Thursday, 3rd October
⏰ 2-3pm BST
🗣 Jeff Cates, Stephen Griffin, & Jason Cross
🔗 https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/controlling-costs-webinar

Whether you're just starting your cloud journey or seeking to optimise existing infrastructure, this webinar will provide actionable strategies and inspiration to take control of your cloud spending.

Register your spot now! 👉 https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/controlling-costs-webinar

In this webinar, learn about Capaciats' engagement with Achievers and discover actionable strategies and inspiration for controlling your cloud spending.

06/03/2024

🌩 Learn how Capacitas helped JAGGAER improve their cloud observability 🌩 These improvements contributed to helping JAGGAER stay $2.7M under their predicted annual budget.

As part of the strategy Capacitas created executive and technical dashboards so the senior leadership and engineers could see their cloud spending broken down by product, services, and areas.

JAGGAER's top executives became much more aware of cost-saving areas, which will continue to be part of their ongoing cloud strategy.

Learn more about how JAGGAER benefited from these changes 👇
https://hubl.li/Q02nmzkk0

A callout for $2.7M under their predicted annual budget achieved in savings.

05/03/2024

🌩 How do you know if your cloud growth is good or bad? 🌩 Taking the growth in isolation only tells you that you're spending money, but are you getting the value?

How can you tell if the growth rate of your Cloud is "good" if you are expecting growth, and how can it be "bad" if you know you are adding more to the Cloud?

Here are 4 questions that will give you the right answer:
1. Is your business demand and sales growth in line with your cloud growth?
2. Is what you're deploying giving you value for money?
3. Do we have the right observability?
4. Can you predict?

Having a better understanding of your Cloud growth will allow you to continue leveraging the best value from your Cloud and ensure you stay in control of your growth.

If you have questions, feel free to talk to Capacitas observability experts 👇
https://hubs.la/Q02n964J0

29/02/2024

🌩 Don’t miss out on significant cloud savings by examining costs in isolation 🌩

Traditional approaches focus solely on cloud costs, missing the full picture.

To uncover the real extent of cost optimizations, engineering teams must consider the whole scenario: scalability, performance, and costs together.

Get the complete view of your system with 6 questions that help measure the size of the opportunities and assess their level of challenge 👇

https://hubs.la/Q02mHPBg0

28/02/2024

🌩 How to improve Cloud observability 🌩 Teams are always looking to get better visibility of their systems. The typical first step on this journey is to invest in APM tools and/or build in-house monitoring tools to gather data.

But we often find that despite making significant investments, CIOs and their teams feel they didn't get the visibility they expected.

Additionally, the complex relationship between performance and cloud costs makes planning difficult.

How can you improve the observability of your teams despite these challenges? – In 3 steps:
🔑 Focus on Key Metrics
🛑 Move Away from the Threshold
🤔 Don't jump to conclusions quickly

Learn how to implement these 3 steps into your team effectively 👇
https://hubs.la/Q02mwR8V0

After improving observability, your team can start asking insightful questions on how you can improve both systems and teams' working practices. You're now using precise data to give you early warning signs to prevent incidents and help improve the organisation. You can now see the full picture and have true visibility.

Teams are always looking to get better visibility of their systems. The first step on this journey is to...

27/02/2024

🌩 Expert recommendations that will help you get cloud observability right 🌩 Many businesses use different tools expecting an easy solution to their challenges. And if a company has extra money to spend, they might not worry about the costs… at first!

However, costs start piling up, and before you realise it, the damage has already been done.

To avoid this, here are some expert recommendations from Capacitas expertise to achieve the right cloud observability:

⛅ After buying a tool, create an ecosystem of people and integrations to get observability that provides value.

⛅ Spend time configuring the tools to make it readable and relevant to the users

⛅ Remove noise from the tool

⛅ Try to avoid underlying infrastructure alerting. It doesn't matter what your hardware is doing, it is your user's experience that matters. Set alerts at the UX level

These are just 4 out of 10 recommendations. Find out the rest here: https://hubs.la/Q02mn6r_0