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Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps Transformation

Helping engineering teams gain financial visibility, optimize cloud infrastructure, and reduce operational costs without compromising reliability or performance.

SaaS
300+ Employees
AWS
6 Weeks
38%
Reduction in Monthly Cloud Spend
92%
Idle Resources Eliminated
45%
Improved Compute Utilization
55 TB
Storage Optimized
95%
Forecast Accuracy
100%
Cloud Cost Visibility
Executive Summary

Rapid business growth resulted in increasing cloud expenditure across multiple AWS accounts without consistent governance or visibility into infrastructure usage.

NirvahaTech implemented a comprehensive FinOps strategy combining resource rightsizing, Kubernetes optimization, storage lifecycle management, cloud governance, and executive cost dashboards to establish continuous cloud cost optimization.

Within six weeks, the organization significantly reduced unnecessary cloud spending while improving infrastructure utilization, forecasting accuracy, and financial accountability across engineering teams.

Customer Profile
Industry
SaaS
Employees
300+
Cloud Provider
AWS
Engineering Team
60 Engineers
Environment
Multi-Account AWS Organization
Platform
Amazon EKS & Managed AWS Services
Operations
Production Workloads
Business Challenge

Where they were stuck

Business Challenges
  • Cloud costs continued increasing every month with limited financial visibility.
  • Engineering teams lacked ownership of infrastructure spending.
  • Development resources remained active outside business hours.
  • Infrastructure was consistently overprovisioned to avoid performance risks.
  • Business leaders had limited insight into cloud spending trends.
Technical Challenges
  • Oversized EC2 instances
  • Low Kubernetes node utilization
  • Unused Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots
  • Improper Amazon S3 storage tiering
  • Missing cost allocation tags
  • Limited Savings Plan adoption
  • Unused Elastic IPs and Load Balancers
  • No centralized FinOps dashboards
Objectives
Reduce unnecessary cloud expenditureImprove infrastructure utilizationIncrease cloud cost visibilityImplement governance through taggingOptimize Kubernetes resource allocationImprove forecasting accuracyEnable continuous cost monitoringBuild a sustainable FinOps practice
Solution Overview

NirvahaTech implemented an enterprise FinOps framework focused on cloud governance, infrastructure optimization, and continuous financial visibility across AWS environments.

Cloud cost assessment
Infrastructure rightsizing
Amazon EKS optimization
Savings Plans strategy
Reserved Instance optimization
Amazon S3 lifecycle policies
Cost allocation tagging
Executive FinOps dashboards
Automated budget alerts
Continuous optimization reviews
Solution Architecture

How it all fits together

AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer
Cost & Usage Reports
Cost & Usage Reports
Cost Allocation Tags
Cost Allocation Tags
FinOps Analytics Platform
FinOps Analytics Platform
Rightsizing Engine
Rightsizing Engine
Savings Plans
Savings Plans
Storage Lifecycle
Storage Lifecycle
Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
CloudWatch
CloudWatch
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets
Executive Dashboard
Executive Dashboard
Engineering & Finance Teams
Implementation Timeline

6 Weeks, start to go-live

1
Week 1
Cloud Cost Assessment
2
Week 2
Optimization Strategy
3
Week 3
Rightsizing & Storage Optimization
4
Week 4
Kubernetes Optimization
5
Week 5
Governance & Dashboards
6
Week 6
Validation & Knowledge Transfer
Technology Stack

What was actually used

Cloud
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets
CloudWatch
CloudWatch
FinOps
Savings Plans
Savings Plans
Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances
Compute Optimizer
Compute Optimizer
Cost & Usage Reports
Cost & Usage Reports
Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor
Containers
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Docker
Docker
Business Outcomes

Before vs. after

Monthly Cloud Spend
Baseline-38%
Compute Utilization
42%87%
Idle Resources
High-92%
Storage Optimization
None55 TB Archived
Forecast Accuracy
60%95%
Tagged Resources
35%100%
Engineering Highlights
Cloud Financial ManagementFinOps Best PracticesInfrastructure RightsizingKubernetes Cost OptimizationStorage Lifecycle AutomationSavings Plans OptimizationCloud GovernanceCost Allocation StrategyExecutive DashboardsContinuous Optimization
Business Impact

By embedding FinOps into engineering operations, the organization transformed cloud cost management from a reactive finance exercise into a continuous engineering discipline. Engineering teams gained real-time visibility into infrastructure spending, optimization opportunities became measurable, and cloud investments aligned with business priorities while maintaining application performance and reliability.

NirvahaTech helped us move beyond one-time cost reductions. We now have the visibility, governance, and operational practices to continuously optimize our cloud environment as our business grows.

Director of Engineering

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