TSL FinOps: Pilot and Iterate

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.

Pilot and Iterate – Deliver Value, Build Capability

Unlock the true value of your cloud spend with TSL’s proven FinOps Framework. The Pilot and Iterate, embeds TSL expert FinOps specialists directly into your teams to deliver rapid results while building in-house capability. Through hands-on delivery and tailored training, we ensure measurable impact and shared knowledge from day one. Working across finance, tech, product, and governance, we drive immediate value and establish the roadmap for continuous improvement and wider adoption.

In this Phase

The organisation will:

• Deliver recurrent savings in a chosen area
• Acquire core knowledge as a basis for future optimisations
• Put in place the pre-requisites required to build FinOps into standard practices
• Agree and embed core governance, roles and responsibilities.

The Outcome?

• Demonstrable cost saving success on which to base a forward-looking strategy
• Through successful delivery, we demonstrate the benefits of focused change and develop a network of champions to lead wider rollout.
• Through training and practical experience, we transfer knowledge to your engineers for continued success.
• Granular, actionable reporting on which to make data based decisions
• An awareness of advanced practices enabling the teams to further reduce costs and manage risk.

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