TSL FinOps: Align and Own

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.

Alignment and Ownership – Establish the Foundation for Cloud Cost Transformation

Start your FinOps journey with TSL FinOps: Align and Own, the essential first step of TSL’s proven FinOps Framework. This targeted engagement focuses on securing executive buy-in and aligning leadership around the strategic value of cloud financial management. We help embed accountability across the organisation, setting the stage for long-term success in cost control, risk reduction, and innovation.

In this Phase

The organisation will:

• Move the conversation beyond simple cost reduction to focus on growth enablement, using proven change management practices
• Embed accountability at every level to create the momentum needed for sustained transformation
• Assess the potential savings and shine a light on why these are not being realised.

The Outcome?

Clear ownership of cloud spend, executive alignment, and a strategic foundation that supports the successful rollout of FinOps across the organisation. This first step, sets you up not just for early wins in cost optimisation, but for long-term maturity and impact. Go beyond basic analysis with cost explorer and unlock the cultural blockers to success.

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