20% Cloud Cost Reduction Unlocked Through AAVA FinOps

A large international banking institution was grappling with escalating and unpredictable cloud expenses. Key challenges included:

  • Limited FinOps maturity and awareness across business and technology functions Inconsistent cloud resource tagging and fragmented financial accountability
  • Absence of effective cost management tools and frameworks for real-time visibility and governance
  • Inefficient resource utilization with no centralized Reserved Instance (RI) management or optimization practices

    Without strategic intervention, the client risked further financial leakage, operational inefficiencies, and poor cloud investment returns.


  • Ascendion deployed its proprietary AVAA FinOps Assessment Framework to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the Bank’s cloud financial management landscape. This involved a maturity assessment of FinOps processes, tools, and operational governance, supported by workshops, interviews, and surveys with a cross-functional group of stakeholders. The team also benchmarked current practices against FinOps best practices and industry standards to uncover optimization opportunities.

    Based on the findings, Ascendion recommended a strategic improvement roadmap focused on:

    Deploying cloud cost management tools and a consistent tagging framework for accurate, transparent cost allocation by Line of Business (LOB)

    Benchmarking resource utilization and introducing auto-scaling, right-sizing, and resource scheduling practices

    Centralizing Reserved Instance (RI) management to optimize commitment-based discounts and reduce on-demand costs Establishing real-time monitoring dashboards and anomaly detection to proactively govern cloud spend

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    Business Impact

    Based on the assessment’s findings and financial modeling, our client is projected to achieve:

    20% reduction in overall cloud spend through optimization initiatives

    25-30% savings on VM costs by right-sizing and transitioning workloads to Reserved Instances

    30-50% cost savings on Reserved Instances through centralized management and purchase optimization.

    Improved visibility and accountability across business units via consistent tagging and transparent reporting

    Up to 90% improvement in forecasting accuracy, enabling proactive financial control and budgeting

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