FinOps on AWS
If your AWS bill is growing faster than the business, Elevata's FinOps consulting identifies waste across right-sizing, Savings Plans, Spot, and cost governance. The CredAluga case documents an approximately 55% reduction after an AWS migration.
The challenge
Over-provisioned resources, idle instances, poorly planned commitments, and weak governance can represent a material share of the bill. Consulting is intended for engineering, finance, and leadership teams that need to restore visibility, reduce waste safely, or establish a continuous FinOps practice.
Documented outcome
The Azure-to-AWS migration combined right-sizing, targeted high availability, EKS with Karpenter, and cost visibility by product and team. The result belongs to that context; every environment needs analysis based on real usage data before setting a target.
FinOps services
Analysis of your current AWS bill to identify immediate waste: idle instances, unattached EBS, unused Elastic IPs, and over-provisioned resources. The initial focus is prioritizing low-risk savings opportunities before structural changes.
Instance right-sizing based on actual utilization. Recommendation and implementation of Savings Plans and Reserved Instances when usage patterns justify 1- to 3-year commitments.
Spot Instances for interruption-tolerant workloads when the operational profile allows it. Architecture review to use serverless services (Lambda, Fargate) and storage tiers (S3 Intelligent-Tiering).
Cost dashboards with Cost Explorer and CUR. Budgets and automatic alerts. Tagging strategy for cost allocation by team, project, and environment. Monthly optimization reviews.
Recommendation record
FinOps for observability
Frequently asked questions
Savings depend on workload maturity, utilization, existing commitments, and architecture. In many environments, the first assessment identifies low-risk opportunities in idle resources, right-sizing, storage, and commitment planning. For larger targets, we use CUR and Cost Explorer data before recommending changes.
FinOps is a practice that combines engineering, finance, and business to manage cloud costs. It includes real-time cost visibility, allocation by team/project, continuous optimization, and a culture of cost accountability.
It should not when validated correctly. Right-sizing should use CPU, memory, network, I/O, performance targets, safety margin, validation window, and rollback. Changes without that evidence can create risk.
Yes. Beyond the initial assessment, we offer continuous FinOps as part of Elevata Orbit managed services. It includes monthly reviews, anomaly alerts, and Savings Plans updates as usage evolves.
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