The Business Challenge
CloudRev Technologies Pvt Ltd faced significant hurdles in maintaining cloud financial hygiene during rapid growth periods:
- Lack of granular visibility into AWS costs across application environments.
- Low commitment coverage leading to higher on-demand costs.
- Inconsistent resource tagging hindering accurate cost allocation.
- Unpredictable spending patterns during variable demand cycles.
The Strategic Solution
Mist Avinya implemented a multi-phased FinOps framework to align engineering output with business value.
1. FinOps Operating Model
- Established a cross-functional team (Engineering, Finance, Operations).
- Integrated AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) with Aquila Clouds for deep analytics.
2. Governance & Visibility
- Automated cost allocation using Amazon Athena to query CUR data in S3.
- Enforced 90%+ tagging compliance for all new and existing resources.
3. Technical Optimization
- Rightsizing: Continuous compute rightsizing and cleanup of idle resources.
- Commitment: Strategic adoption of AWS Savings Plans.
- Storage: Migration from gp2 to gp3 and S3 lifecycle policy automation.
Cloud Architecture
The solution spans multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability, utilizing EKS for orchestration and Lambda for serverless tasks.
Proven Results
| Key Metric | Business Outcome |
|---|---|
| Monthly Cost Reduction | ~30% reduction achieved within 120 days |
| Tag Compliance | Reached >90% for mandatory cost-center tags |
| Commitment Level | Optimized utilization of AWS Savings Plans |
| Forecasting | Drastic reduction in budget variance |
Business Impact
- Accountability: Real-time data allows teams to own their cloud spend.
- Efficiency: Eliminated cloud waste while scaling performance.
- Decision Making: Leadership can now make data-driven pricing and R&D budget decisions.