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FinOps • EKS • AI-Assisted Optimization

FinOps & EKS Optimization Sprint

Turn AWS spend into strategic advantage. In 30 days, we reduce cloud costs, protect performance, and give leadership a live view of unit economics — with AI accelerating discovery, forecasting, and automation.

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FinOps Dashboard Preview

This is the live view your Finance & Ops leaders get — daily burn, forecast vs. plan, savings in flight, and cost per customer/workload.

Daily Burn
$7,420
62% of plan
Runway Impact
+4.2 mo
Savings + predictability
Unit Cost / Customer
$3.08
Prod env • last 30 days
Savings In Flight
$28.6k
Right-size, Spot, tiering
Top Workloads by Cost
WorkloadOwnerCostTrend
EKS-prodPlatform$21,900↘ −12%
Billing-APIFinance$9,480→
Data-ETLOps$7,220↘ −8%
Guardrails
  • Encryption at rest — Enforced
  • Autoscaling policies — Enforced
  • Data egress caps — Monitoring

Illustrative only — final KPIs and views are tailored to your business.

Executive Outcomes

This is a productized financial program — not a tuning exercise. Designed for CEOs, CFOs, and boards.

15–30% reductionin monthly AWS compute & data transfer, typically within one billing cycle
+3–6 months runwayvia savings + better forecasting discipline
Unit economics clarityCost per customer, per workload, per feature — tracked live
Executive command centerLive dashboard for Finance & Ops with alerts and guardrails

Exactly What You Get

Cost & Runway Dashboard

  • Daily burn, forecast, and variance vs. plan
  • Cost per customer / product line / environment
  • Alerts for anomalous spikes and idle resources

Savings Levers (Implemented)

  • Right-sizing & autoscaling policies
  • Spot & Savings Plans strategy (risk-aware)
  • Cache/CDN, storage tiering, data egress controls

AI-Assisted Automation

  • AI discovers idle/over-provisioned assets and proposes actions
  • One-click change reviews; recurring tasks auto-remediated
  • Forecasting & “what-if” scenarios generated on demand

Before vs. After

Before

  • Unpredictable bills; “surprises” at month-end
  • Unknown unit economics; board questions drag weeks
  • Over-provisioned clusters and zombie resources

After 30 Days

  • Spend curves trending down with guardrails
  • Unit economics visible daily to Finance & Ops
  • Automated savings + fast approvals through a simple workflow

30-Day Timeline & Artifacts

Every week produces named outputs leadership can use immediately.

Week 1 — Baseline & Targets Leadership alignment on savings goals and risk tolerance; AI sweep flags quick wins.
Artifacts: Baseline report, target model, watchlist of savings opportunities.
Week 2 — Quick Wins Live Implement right-size rules, autoscaling, and idle cleanup with change controls.
Artifacts: Change log, approvals, initial savings report (daily/weekly).
Week 3 — Strategic Levers Spot/Savings Plans strategy, storage tiering, egress controls, and CDN tuning.
Artifacts: Commitment plan, policy docs, runway impact view.
Week 4 — Hand-Off & Governance Executive dashboard, alerts, and a 90-day FinOps plan with owners.
Artifacts: Live dashboard, runbooks, RACI, board-ready summary.

What Investors Are Buying Into

Efficiency as a Moat

Demonstrable cost discipline with no performance regression. Your ability to scale efficiently becomes part of the story to the board and future investors.

Narrative “We improved gross margin and extended runway without slowing product velocity.”

Proof Live dashboards, acceptance report, and before/after bills.

Runway & Unit Economics

  • Runway extended by savings + predictability
  • Clear cost per customer / feature to guide pricing
  • Lower variance from forecast → fewer surprises

Security & Governance (Built-In)

Controls

  • Change approvals for all cost-impacting actions
  • Guardrails for encryption, backups, and network egress
  • Audit log of recommendations → approvals → actions

Executive Visibility

  • Daily/weekly digest to Slack/email for Finance & Ops
  • Alerts for anomalies and budget threshold breaches
  • Board-ready month-end summary, auto-generated

What Clients Say

“We cut spend without slowing product. The board stopped asking ‘why is AWS so high?’ — the dashboard answers it daily.”

— CEO, SaaS Platform

Who It’s For & What We Need

Great Fit

  • Leadership wants predictable spend and clearer unit economics
  • Product can’t afford performance regressions
  • Teams are ready to adopt guardrails and an approval workflow

From You

  • Read-only AWS access + one technical and one finance contact
  • Target savings goals and risk tolerance (Spot/commitments)
  • Slack/Jira for transparent delivery

Ready to turn cloud spend into a competitive advantage?

In 30 days, you’ll have lower spend, a live executive dashboard, and governance that sticks — powered by AI-assisted optimization.

Book a 20-min Strategy Call