What the Client Was Facing
A mid-sized professional services firm had migrated to AWS 3 years earlier but had never properly optimised their environment. Their cloud bill had grown to £800k annually with no cost attribution, rogue resources running unnoticed and no visibility into what was being spent where.
What ZippyOPS Was Engaged To Do
ZippyOPS was brought in to design and implement a solution addressing the root causes of the client's challenges — delivering measurable outcomes within a fixed engagement timeline. Our team worked embedded with the client's engineers throughout the entire project.
How We Solved It
ZippyOPS implemented a full FinOps managed service — tagging all resources, implementing cost dashboards attributed by department, identifying and eliminating £240k of waste in the first month and establishing a monthly cost review process. Reserved Instance and Savings Plan commitments were optimised to lock in long-term savings.
Technologies Used
Measurable Outcomes Delivered
£240k of waste eliminated in the first 30 days through idle resource cleanup
Annual cloud spend reduced from £800k to £490k — saving £310k per year
100% of resources tagged and attributed to business unit — finance team has full visibility
FinOps operating model established — monthly cost review is now a standard business process
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