Cloud Cost Optimization Program with FinOps Reporting and Guardrails
A SaaS company needed to reduce cloud spend without risking uptime. We implemented cost visibility, right sizing, reserved capacity planning, and guardrails to prevent waste. The program delivered savings while improving reliability and budgeting accuracy.
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35%
Cost Reduction
0
Critical Incidents
90%
Tag Coverage
6
Weeks to Savings
About the Client
Industry
SaaS
Company Size
80 to 160 employees
Background
A SaaS company with multiple environments and rising cloud bills. Leadership wanted predictable budgets and engineering wanted guardrails that did not slow delivery.
Cost Drivers Identified
Overprovisioned compute
Resources were sized for peak but lacked autoscaling and right sizing discipline.
Poor tagging and chargeback
Costs could not be attributed to teams and products consistently.
Idle environments
Staging and review environments ran continuously without schedules.
No guardrails
New resources could be created without cost checks, leading to sprawl.
The Mission
Reduce cloud spend with strong visibility and governance, while keeping reliability stable and improving forecasting accuracy.
How We Approached It
01. Baseline and visibility
Week 1 to 2- Cost breakdown by service and environment
- Tagging strategy and enforcement plan
- Reserved capacity review
- Right sizing opportunities identification
02. Optimization and guardrails
Week 3 to 5- Compute right sizing and autoscaling adjustments
- Schedules for non production environments
- Reserved capacity and commitment planning
- Cost guardrails and alerts
03. FinOps reporting
Week 6- Dashboards for team level cost ownership
- Forecasting and budget alerts
- Runbooks for ongoing optimization
- Handoff and training
Vulnerabilities Discovered
0
CRITICAL
2
HIGH
2
MEDIUM
0
LOW
Tag coverage too low
Costs could not be traced to teams or services, limiting accountability and forecasting.
Costs could not be traced to teams or services, limiting accountability and forecasting.
Idle capacity in non production
Environments ran continuously and created avoidable costs.
Environments ran continuously and created avoidable costs.
Reserved capacity not optimized
Commitments did not match actual usage patterns and needed adjustment.
Commitments did not match actual usage patterns and needed adjustment.
No cost guardrails
Teams could create expensive resources without visibility into impact.
Teams could create expensive resources without visibility into impact.
How We Fixed It
Right sizing and autoscaling
Adjusted resources to match usage patterns and implemented autoscaling where appropriate.
Governance and tagging
Improved tagging coverage and introduced reporting and alerts for accountability.
FinOps reporting
Created dashboards and processes for ongoing cost optimization without slowing engineering.
Measurable Outcomes
The program reduced spend and improved budget predictability while keeping reliability stable and engineering velocity intact.
35%
Cost Reduction
90%
Tag Coverage
6
Weeks to Savings
0
Critical Incidents
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