Cloud Cost Optimization: $200K+ Saved Annually
An enterprise SaaS company was overspending on AWS by six figures a year. We cut their bill by 28% through FinOps, right-sizing, and architecture changes.
The Challenge
What was getting in the way
- 01
Monthly AWS bills kept climbing, but nobody could explain which services were driving the increase
- 02
Resources were over-provisioned across the board, with GPU instances running idle overnight
- 03
No cost ownership by team. Engineers had no visibility into what their workloads actually cost
The Solution
How we solved it
We ran a full cost audit across 12 AWS accounts, tagged every resource by team and project, and built a Grafana dashboard for real-time spend tracking. Then we right-sized EC2 and RDS instances based on 30 days of utilization data, moved training jobs to spot instances, and reserved capacity for predictable workloads. Total savings hit 28% within the first billing cycle.
Technologies
What We Built
A look inside the project
The Process
Step-by-step delivery
Cost Audit
Break down spend across all 12 AWS accounts
Architecture Review
Find over-provisioned and idle resources
Right-Sizing
Resize instances based on actual utilization data
FinOps Dashboard
Build real-time cost monitoring and alerts
Continuous Optimization
Set up automated policies and monthly reviews
The Results
The numbers
Cloud Cost Reduction
Faster Application Performance
Cost Visibility Across Teams