The client provides an enterprise platform for managing orders, invoices, inventory, and expenses related to telecommunications, mobile technology, cloud computing, IoT, and 5G technology.
The Challenge
The client had an expansive cloud landscape hosted on AWS, which was managed manually and lacked standardization in infrastructure provisioning. Different teams had set up different environments, spinning multiple resources and leaving them running when not in use. This led to duplicity and poor cloud hygiene, arising from a lack of visibility into cloud operations and resource utilization. The client struggled with escalating cloud costs, undermining its move to the cloud for streamlined operations and expenses.
The Solution
The client turned to Persistent to craft a FinOps strategy that could save costs and optimally utilize cloud resources with minimal impact on operations. Persistent’s FinOps experts created a tailored roadmap and worked with the client’s development teams as enablers to embed FinOps best practices.
Our recommendations for optimized cloud resources were based on a detailed analysis of the client’s business requirements. Leveraging Persistent Intelligent Operations Framework 2.0 (PiOps 2.0), the client standardized infrastructure provisioning with guardrails and processes, backed by best-in-class monitoring tools, to gain visibility into utilization and unit costs. This helped the client adopt a metric-based approach to assess resource utilization, categorizing commissioned cloud resources as tagged, right-sized, idle resources, and orphaned. This also allowed the client to see cloud expenditures and allocate costs to the right cost centers (i.e., provisioning teams and business units).
The Outcome
Persistent ensured a zero-disruption transition through PiOps 2.0, and enabled:
- 20% cost savings year-to-date with $110K annualized projections.
- Cost-visibility coverage for 30% of the client’s KPIs.
