TSL FinOps: Scale and Mature

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.

Scale and Mature – Expand FinOps Impact Across the Enterprise

Unlock the true value of your cloud spend with TSL’s Scale and Mature phase. TSL helps your organisation roll out FinOps capabilities broadly, deepening expertise and expanding coverage. In this phase, you will see significant financial savings as FinOps becomes a standard practice.

We work in waves, prioritising high-impact areas and embedding cost-awareness into development, governance, and architecture practices. With maturity assessments, capability building, and a long-term roadmap, your teams evolve from reactive fixes to proactive cost design and optimisation at scale.

In this Phase

The organisation will:

• Widen FinOps practices to more teams / lines of business
• Deepen knowledge, to adopt more advanced practices and techniques
• Improve financial controls and risk management for cloud spend
• Understand how to better inform product investment decisions with cost data
• Move from removing waste to preventing waste (earlier, larger savings)

The Outcome?

FinOps is rolled out broadly across the organisation and embedded in everyday practices. Product teams understand how to use FinOps as a mechanism to fund investment. Development teams build financial awareness into architecture and implementation choices by design. Finance and procurement teams have clear visibility and effective budgeting and control mechanisms. Risks are actively managed.

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