Reduced Cloud Costs By 25 40 With Finops Optimization

The Challenge

Our client was scaling rapidly, capturing massive market share, but encountering a severe cloud-cost spiral. Their monthly AWS bill had increased by 140% in six months despite user growth only expanding by 40%. The issue was a vast sprawl of unmanaged resources, orphaned EBS volumes, and oversized EC2 instances operating around the clock.

The SurfingCloud Solution

We implemented rigorous FinOps architectures:

• Resource Tagging & Attribution: Established strict tag governance so every dollar spent could be attributed to a specific microservice.
• Automated Rightsizing: Utilized AWS Compute Optimizer insights to downgrade over-provisioned nodes seamlessly.
• Reserved & Spot Commitments: Moved persistent baseline loads to Savings Plans, and offloaded heavy, fault-tolerant rendering queues entirely to Spot Instances.

The Impact