Unlock Cloud Efficiency with AI-Powered FinOps and Smarter Spend

Optimize your cloud investment with data-driven FinOps and cost governance.

Our Cloud FinOps service empowers enterprises to take
control of their cloud spend through real-time cost
visibility, predictive analytics, and automated
governance.

By aligning financial accountability with operational
performance, we help reduce waste, rightsize resources,
and unlock greater cloud value – driving long-term
savings, scalability, and business agility

Use Case | FSI

A leading Portuguese financial services provider operating high-volume digital platforms that process millions of transactions daily, with traffic surges during large-scale marketing campaigns.

The challenge:

A legacy Azure-hosted monolith required manual scaling before campaigns, causing performance risks when demand exceeded forecasts. Slow, costly database scaling and oversized log storage further inflated costs while limited observability hindered proactive monitoring. The goal was to enable elastic scaling, reduce costs, and maintain peak-time performance.

Our approach:

Microservices Transformation
Re-architected the monolith into Kubernetes (AKS) microservices with granular auto-scaling at the service level.
Database Decoupling
Split the monolithic database into service-specific DBs and adopted Azure Cosmos DB for elastic, pay-per-use scaling.
Observability Optimization
Migrated to Datadog, adding anomaly detection, real-time dashboards, and reducing log costs by over 20%.

The results:

Faster Time-to-Scale
Dynamic scaling in seconds with zero downtime during campaign surges.
30% Infrastructure Savings
Reduced overprovisioning through service-level scaling.
20% Log Cost Reduction
Lower costs with Datadog while improving analytics and insights.

Use Case | Logistics

A major logistics provider running a high-volume supply chain platform with warehouse, transport, and tracking services — fully cloud-based but without cost governance.

The challenge:

Cloud infrastructure costs were mounting due to the absence of Reserved Instances and an inefficient backup process that duplicated storage unnecessarily.

Our approach:

Reserved Capacity Optimization
Introduced Reserved Instances across core workloads, immediately reducing compute costs.
Backup Storage Consolidation
Centralized and deduplicated backup processes, eliminating redundancy and improving storage efficiency.
Cost Governance Alignment
Embedded FinOps principles to ensure long-term accountability and proactive cost management.

The results:

70% Reduction in Compute Costs
Achieved through Reserved Instance strategy across environments.
30% Backup Storage Savings
Resulting from centralized, deduplicated storage.
Sustainable Optimization Practices
Established controls and visibility to prevent future overspend.

Use Case | Telco

A multinational telecommunications company delivering large-scale video streaming services with high performance, availability, and user demand variability.

The challenge:

On-prem VMware resources ran constantly, regardless of workload, driving unpredictable costs and high TCO. The monolithic architecture forced all services to scale together, even when only encoding needed capacity, creating significant inefficiencies. Peak Friday encoding volumes caused queues, delays, and failures that jeopardized SLAs and advertiser confidence. Adding new features like subtitles or transcription required custom development and infrastructure provisioning, limiting innovation and time-to-market.

Our approach:

Serverless AWS Migration
Re-architected the platform using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, Lambda, S3, Step Functions, and DynamoDB.
Demand-Driven Scaling
Implemented auto-scaling policies to match real-time workloads, eliminating idle resources and overprovisioning.
Integrated Observability
Built native monitoring and custom dashboards to track ingest, encoding times, and SLA compliance.

The results:

40%+ Cost Reduction
Pay-per-use serverless model removed idle infrastructure costs and optimized spend.
SLA-Ready Performance
Seamless handling of peak loads ensured weekend campaigns were encoded and delivered on time.
Future-Proof Scalability
Architecture now supports growing volumes, including 4K/8K encoding, without additional CAPEX.

Use Case | Telco

A multinational telecommunications provider delivering high-performance video streaming to millions worldwide. Rapid growth in users, features, and infrastructure drove cloud costs up faster than the value delivered.

The challenge:

Lack of cost ownership, siloed teams, and overprovisioned environments led to budget overruns and wasted resources. Finance had no real-time visibility, and infrastructure was often oversized or idle. The goal was to restore visibility, reduce waste, and embed FinOps best practices.

Our approach:

Rightsizing & Quick Wins
Shut down idle resources, right-sized workloads, and adopted Savings Plans and Spot Instances.
Smart Scaling
Enabled auto-scaling and moved non-critical services to serverless or containers.
FinOps Governance
Centralized ownership, enforced tagging policies, and deployed real-time cost monitoring with alerts.

The results:

25% Cost Reduction (Phase 1)
Achieved through reserved capacity, scaling policies, and service tier optimization.
Cross-Team Alignment
DevOps and Finance now share dashboards and plan budgets collaboratively.
Predictive Cost Management
Monthly forecasts now reach 80%+ accuracy for core workloads.

Use Case | Telco

A leading telecommunications provider delivering large-scale video advertising and streaming services, operating across on-prem and cloud environments with strict SLAs and weekend campaign peaks.

The challenge:

Operating on a VMware-based monolith, the platform incurred high costs from idle resources while struggling to meet SLAs during Friday demand spikes. Scaling limitations and delayed encodes risked campaign delivery and advertiser confidence. The goal was to adopt a flexible, pay-per-use architecture that could scale seamlessly and enable faster feature deployment.

Our approach:

Serverless AWS Migration
Re-architected ingest, encode, and delivery workflows using AWS serverless services.
Elastic Scaling
Auto-scaled workloads only when and where demand spiked.
Feature Agility
Integrated AI-driven services for subtitles and multilingual support.

The results:

40% Cost Reduction
Pay-per-use model eliminated idle capacity.
Peak-Time Reliability
Consistent performance under Friday surges.
SCALABILITY GROWTH
Ready for 4K/8K without additional CAPEX.

Benefits

Cost Optimization & Accountability

Allocate cloud spending effectively across business units with detailed visibility.

Predictive Cost Management

Real-time cloud cost monitoring, anomaly detection, and cost-saving automation.

Optimization at Scale

Rightsizing, reserved instances, and automated cost governance ensure sustainable savings.

Bridging Finance & IT

Aligning cloud cost strategy with business goals, enabling financial and operational efficiency.

Continuous Optimization

Ensure long-term cloud efficiency with an end-to-end approach from assessment to managed service.

Challenges

Escalating Cloud Spend

Escalating Cloud Spend

Rapid cloud adoption is driving costs up, and without control, it leads to waste, inefficiency, and reduced ROI.

Wasted Resources

Wasted Resources

A significant share of cloud budgets is lost to idle, oversized, or unused resources—draining value and limiting efficiency.

Lack of Cost Visibility

Lack of Cost Visibility

Without clear financial oversight, most organizations overspend in the cloud—often without even realizing it.

Complex Billing Models

Complex Billing Models

Multi-cloud environments introduce inconsistent pricing, hidden costs, and billing complexity.

CapEx to OpEx Shift

CapEx to OpEx Shift

Organizations struggle to adapt traditional budgeting practices to cloud-based operational expenditure.

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Our Cloud Migration service supports everything from VMware-to-AWS/Azure transitions to legacy database modernization—delivering secure, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions tailored to your business needs.

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Our Cloud Architecture services help organizations design, optimize, and modernize their cloud environments with a strategic, tailored approach. We assess existing infrastructures—on-premises or in the cloud—and deliver architecture solutions that enhance cost efficiency, security, scalability, and regulatory compliance.

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