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Cloud FinOps: turning 400+ accounts of spend into actionable insight

400+ accounts of cloud spend with no consolidated view — costs rising faster than anyone could explain, reports compiled manually, slowly, and infrequently. We built the dashboards that changed that.

400+
Accounts

Spend consolidated across the full account estate.

95%
Less manual effort

In producing the reports leaders relied on.

$100K+/mo
Savings identified

Recurring monthly savings identified for the client.

Sector
Large enterprise
Engagement
Cloud FinOps platform build
Problem area
Cloud
Confidentiality
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The challenge

Spend nobody could fully see

400+ accounts of cloud spend had no consolidated view. Costs were rising faster than anyone could explain, and reports were compiled manually — slowly, and infrequently enough that decisions lagged behind the numbers.

Before

  • No consolidated view across 400+ accounts
  • Costs rising with no clear explanation
  • Reports compiled manually and infrequently
  • No predictable cost view for leaders or developers

After

  • Dashboards exposing spend across every business unit
  • 95% less manual effort producing reports
  • Concrete optimisation opportunities surfaced
  • Leaders set and tracked savings KPIs directly

How we approached it

Mine the data, publish the view, drive the savings

01

Mine the cost data

We built a BI pipeline that mines AWS Cost and Usage Report data and transforms and organises it for easy consumption — replacing the slow, manual report-building that came before.

02

Publish the dashboards

We published a set of Power BI dashboards exploring the key areas of spend, giving senior leaders their KPIs and developers a clear view of the cost their choices drive.

03

Turn insight into savings

We surfaced concrete levers — reserved versus on-demand instances, optimised EBS storage, Spot for containerised workloads, auto-stopping idle WorkSpaces, and right-tiering S3 storage — adding up to $100K+ a month.

Under the hood

Power BIAmazon RedshiftAWS GlueAWS LambdaAWS BatchCloudWatchDynamoDBPython

Next step

Cloud spend across many accounts, no one view of the truth?

We consolidate spend into a view your teams can actually act on — not just another report nobody reads.

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