TSL FinOps: Baseline for Success

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 FinOps 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.

Baseline for Success – Turn Visibility into Actionable Insight

Unlock the true value of your cloud spend with TSL’s proven FinOps Framework. The Baseline for Success phase equips your organisation with the granular reporting, cost attribution, and shared resource allocation needed to build a clear financial baseline. We help teams understand what’s driving cloud costs moving from delayed invoice surprises to real time, data driven decision-making. This step lays the foundation for smarter financial operations and builds a culture where visibility, ownership, and optimisation go hand in hand. By highlighting areas of waste and enabling motivated individuals to deliver measurable savings, we create momentum and celebrate early wins that drive further engagement.

In this Phase

The organisation will:

• Setup the tooling required to give you granular cost reporting and attribution to inform where and how to target interventions
• Define and agree where and how to best demonstrate initial FinOps savings
• Assemble the right team from within your organisation, augmented with our expertise and key talent
• Establish an operating model that empowers action and rewards success.

The Outcome?

You will have in place the tooling and telemetry to understand by service, product and component, where to intervene to reduce costs. You will have an established team ready to lead the change and demonstrate success. You will have a clear technical strategy to deliver value and the support of TSL's technical experts ready to share knowledge and existing optimisation code with your teams for them to adopt and implement.

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