Overview
Telefonica Tech UK - AWS FinOps Consulting and Managed Service
Organisations waste up to 30% of their cloud spend. Telefonica Tech's Cloud Propel offering helps you reclaim that value through a structured FinOps consultancy and managed service built on three pillars: maximising business value, enabling data-driven decisions, and creating a financial culture across engineering, technology, and finance teams.
As the Apptio EMEA MSP Partner of the Year 2024 & 2025, we bring 30+ years of experience and the Gartner-rated Cloudability platform to deliver measurable cost optimisation outcomes.
How We Work - Crawl, Walk, Run
Our engagement follows a phased model designed to build your internal FinOps mastery:
Crawl -FinOps Evaluation (2-4 weeks)
- Rapid sprint-based assessment of your AWS environment
- Maturity Benchmark mapping against the FinOps Crawl/Walk/Run framework
- Cost Audit with tooling proof-of-value across 3 key accounts/workloads
- Process Review of existing FinOps capabilities
- Architectural Workshops aligned with AWS Well-Architected and FinOps frameworks
- Executive Summary with quantified savings opportunities and next steps
Walk - FinOps Enablement (3-6 months)
- FinOps Strategy Report and Capability Delivery Plan
- Design and build of reporting, showback, forecasting, and optimisation tracking
- Persona-specific training and FinOps Champions programme
- Cloudability tool deployment with managed service wrapper
Run - FinOps as a Service (Ongoing)
- Fully managed Cloudability platform with customisable dashboards
- Continual optimisation of savings plans, reserved instances, and rightsizing
- Anomaly detection with ServiceNow ITSM integration
- Education, gamification, and showback/chargeback reporting
What We Optimise on AWS
Our evaluations identify savings across specific AWS services including:
- EC2 rightsizing and underutilised instance removal
- EBS over-provisioned and underutilised volumes
- RDS idle DB instances and rightsizing
- ElastiCache rightsizing and reservations
- DynamoDB rightsizing
- Unassociated Elastic IPs and idle Load Balancers
- Lambda over-provisioned memory
Each recommendation is rated by level of effort (Low/Medium/High) so you can prioritise quick wins.
Tools and Platforms
We leverage the Gartner-rated Cloudability platform for fully-burdened cost analytics, automated cost allocation, unified commitment planning, and intelligent anomaly detection. Remediation is tracked via ServiceNow ITSM for full accountability. We also utilise AWS-native tools including AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Compute Optimizer.
Who This Is For
- AWS Commercial and Public Sector customers
- Organisations of all sizes, from SMEs to large enterprises
- Teams experiencing post-migration cost overruns or preparing for annual budget reviews
- Engineering, finance, and technology leaders seeking financial accountability for cloud spend
Prerequisites and Scope
- Active AWS account with Cost and Usage Reports enabled
- Read-only access to environments and Payer/Root Account access
- Tooling agent installation (2-5 weeks lead time)
- Engagement covers AWS cost optimisation; multi-cloud assessments available on request
GreenOps
Our FinOps practice includes GreenOps capabilities covering Region/AZ carbon intensity analysis, energy and carbon measurement, and green coding and architecture practices.
Get Started
Contact us to book a free FinOps Evaluation Workshop and discover how our FinOps consultancy can reduce your AWS cloud waste.
Highlights
- Crawl/Walk/Run FinOps Framework: Our structured 3-phase engagement starts with a 2-4 week rapid evaluation identifying savings across EC2, RDS, EBS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, and Lambda. Each recommendation is quantified and rated by implementation effort. As Apptio EMEA MSP Partner of the Year 2024 & 2025, we deploy the Gartner-rated Cloudability platform for automated cost allocation, anomaly detection, and unified commitment planning - all tracked via ServiceNow ITSM.
- Specialist AWS Cloud Architects and FinOps Consultants: Our team redesigns workloads for cost efficiency using AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews and architectural workshops. We identify rightsizing opportunities, underutilised resources, and reservation strategies across your AWS estate. With 30+ years of experience spanning on-premise and public cloud, we deliver optimisation for organisations wasting up to 30% of their cloud spend.
- Operating Model Transformation with Measurable Handoff: We integrate FinOps processes into your technology and finance teams through persona-specific training, a FinOps Champions programme, and executive support. Our consulting-to-MSP model is designed so your internal FinOps capability increases over time while reliance on external resources decreases - delivering sustained cost avoidance with real-time dashboards, showback, chargeback, and forecasting capabilities.
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Support Channels
Telefonica Tech provides support through the following channels:
- Email: info@telefonicatech.co.uk
- Phone: 0333 188 7868
- Website: telefonicatech.uk
Engagement Process
After purchase, your engagement follows our Crawl/Walk/Run framework:
- Discovery and Scoping - We arrange access requirements (read-only environment access, Cost and Usage Reports, Payer/Root Account access) and install tooling agents (2-5 weeks).
- Evaluation Delivery - A 2-4 week rapid sprint produces a Maturity Benchmark, Cost Audit, Process Review, and Executive Summary with quantified savings.
- Enablement (if applicable) - A 3-6 month phase delivering your FinOps Strategy Report, Capability Delivery Plan, training, and Cloudability deployment.
- Ongoing Managed Service (if applicable) - Continual optimisation, anomaly detection, and reporting via managed Cloudability platform.
Buyer Responsibilities
- Provide read-only access to AWS environments
- Enable Cost and Usage Reports
- Grant Payer/Root Account access for tooling deployment
- Designate a FinOps champion and ensure finance stakeholder availability
Getting Started
Contact us to book a free FinOps Evaluation Workshop to assess your current cloud spend and identify immediate optimisation opportunities.