TSL FinOps: Monitor and Sustain

Unlock the Full Potential of Your Cloud Investment

Transform your cloud financial operations and save up to 30% on cloud costs with the TSL FinOps Solution. Our tailored solution combines cutting-edge tools, expert guidance, and strong financial governance to drive cost savings, transparency, and long-term growth. With TSL’s 5-step approach, you’ll gain complete control over your cloud spending, making smarter financial decisions while empowering your teams to take ownership of cloud financial management.

Monitor and Sustain – Keep FinOps Thriving

In the Monitor and Sustain phase, TSL becomes your long-term strategic FinOps partner, helping you embed financial operations into daily decision-making. We provide the tools, reporting, and maturity assessments to track progress, guide improvements, and sustain momentum. As your organisation grows or transforms, we ensure FinOps practices adapt, scale, and continue delivering value through team changes, mergers, or reorgs.

In this Phase

The organisation will:

• Provide a managed service wrapper for FinOps tooling
• Provide expert partner advice on adapting FinOps practices to adopt new techniques
• Conduct maturity assessements at regular intervals to ensure continuous improvement
• Provide surgical interventions as required to bring teams on track to align with the agreed operating framework.

The Outcome?

• Sustained Improvement: Ensure FinOps practices continue to deliver value and adapt to organisational needs.
• Increased Efficiency: Leverage expert insights to identify inefficiencies and implement cost-saving strategies.
• Enhanced Collaboration: Strengthen alignment between finance, engineering, and product teams through consistent engagement.
• Future-Ready Practices: Build a FinOps framework that evolves with changing business and technology landscapes.

Optimising AWS Costs: From Insight to Action

There are numerous proven techniques for reducing and optimising AWS spend. These include:

1. Rate Optimisation
   • Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Pricing
2. Workload Optimisation
   • Rightsizing EC2 instances
   • Instance family upgrades
   • Autoscaling and resource scheduling
3. Database Optimisation
   • RDS adoption and tuning
   • Database rightsizing and scaling
   • Compression, indexing, and caching strategies
4. Storage Optimisation
   • Intelligent tiering and lifecycle policies
   • Archiving, cleanup, and decommissioning
5. Network Optimisation
   • Efficient use of Route 53 and Transit Gateway
   • CDN adoption
   • PrivateLink to reduce data transfer and improve security
6. Architecture Optimisation
   • Containerisation and serverless migration
   • Lambda and event-driven patterns
   • Improved state management to reduce infrastructure persistence
7. Kubernetes Optimisation
   • Node rightsizing and cost-aware autoscaling
   • Idle pod detection and cleanup
   • Efficient use of spot nodes and taints/tolerations

These strategies must be underpinned by strong enablers, including:

• Tooling: AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, and third-party FinOps platforms
• Practices: Rigorous tagging, show back/chargeback, budgeting and forecasting
• Development Integration: Embedding cost telemetry into CI/CD, aligning sprints to cost-saving opportunities

Your AWS Technical Account Manager may be surfacing potential savings, but those insights are not delivered without the right framework and expertise. TSL helps you operationalise these recommendations—repeatably, sustainably, and at scale—delivering long-term financial performance.

Key Benefits of the TSL FinOps Solution

• Cost savings for re-investment – up to 30%
• Increased control over spending
• Increased cloud cost certainty – no surprises
• Increased maturity in operations
• Improved security – decommissioning of unowned services
• Visibility over opportunities
• Control gates embedded in standard practices
• Alignment of finance and technology priorities
• Risk management driving actions