Review & Optimize Your Cloud Infrastructure with FinOps
01 - The challenge
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The challenge
AWS optimization tasks are crucial for organizations seeking to maximize the value of their cloud investments. By regularly fine-tuning their AWS environments, businesses can achieve significant cost reductions, enhance performance, and improve scalability.
These optimization efforts not only lead to more efficient resource utilization but also contribute to a stronger security posture and better compliance with industry standards. As companies face increasing pressure to remain competitive and environmentally conscious, AWS optimization becomes an essential practice for maintaining agility, reducing carbon footprints, and making informed decisions about future cloud strategies.
In today’s dynamic digital environment, businesses are rapidly moving workloads to the cloud, but many fail to recognize the hidden costs and operational inefficiencies that come with unmanaged infrastructures. Without ongoing monitoring and structured frameworks such as FinOps, cloud bills can spiral out of control, creating budget overruns and reducing the overall ROI of cloud adoption. Cloud Cost Optimization is no longer a luxury—it has become a business necessity. Organizations that fail to implement cloud optimization strategies may end up paying for unused or oversized resources, underutilized storage, or security vulnerabilities that could have been avoided.
Another common challenge is the growing complexity of compliance requirements. Here, AWS IAM plays a central role, ensuring secure access control and identity management across teams, applications, and business units. By properly configuring IAM policies, companies not only strengthen security but also support clear audit trails, which is essential in passing compliance checks.
02 - The solution
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The solution
Cloud Cost optimization
Cost optimization in the cloud goes beyond simply lowering expenses—it is about aligning technology investments with business objectives. Successful Cloud Cost Optimization requires a clear understanding of workload behavior, resource utilization, and long-term growth plans. By applying structured FinOps methodologies, companies can ensure that every dollar spent on cloud infrastructure delivers measurable business value. This means proactively identifying unused resources, choosing the right pricing models, and continuously monitoring performance to balance cost, agility, and scalability.
Graviton based EC2 resources offer 20% better price-performance ratio on average compared to Intel based resources. Partner with us to calculate Return on Investment of migrating workloads to Graviton, and let us accelerate the migration journey by providing Devops, Software development and Testing expertise for refactoring your applications, building image pipelines and validating outcomes for Graviton runtime environments.
Our custom developed FinOps Cost allocation dashboard can highlight shared cost elements like network and security components for large organizations, so that all AWS platform-related costs can be attributed towards business units for chargeback purposes.
Rightsizing resources and reserving for long-term price benefits are the basics of cost optimization and taken care of by our team on a regular basis. We are monitoring cost changes to identify any anomalies against business expectations.
Security review
The importance of regular security reviews cannot be overstated. Misconfigured permissions or overly broad AWS IAM policies are among the leading causes of cloud data breaches. Conducting detailed audits ensures that only the right people have access to the right resources. In addition, vulnerability scans and compliance audits help organizations detect threats early and act before they escalate into major incidents. With the rise of ransomware and sophisticated attacks, proactive defense is a cornerstone of sustainable cloud management.
Perform security review based on AWS provided security best practices, CIS provided AWS benchmark framework and optional other available industry best practices available in AWS Security hub.
Perform security scanning for vulnerabilities (VM and container), patch level, AWS IAM user access review, runtime threats, data access policies and more. The provided report contains the high, medium and low priority issues to be resolved.
Our Security Lake implementation incorporates AWS platform logs and transforms into an intelligent analytics solution, to query, report and analyze information effectively. Bring in other sources of information using OCSF format, so that platform and application logs insights can be combined in one solution!
Integrating cloud managed services into the security lifecycle allows companies to offload time-consuming tasks while maintaining full visibility over their environments. This not only strengthens compliance but also ensures that businesses can scale securely as they adopt new technologies.
Well architected review
TC2 leverages the AWS framework consisting of a series of whitepapers, tools and services along with extensive handson experience of lessons learned that help users assess their architectures, identify risks and inefficiencies, and implement best practices to optimize their workloads. The work includes a set of AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews, which are designed to provide expert guidance and feedback on specific architectures, helping users ensure that their systems are well-architected. A Well-Architected Review is more than just a best-practice checklist—it is a strategic opportunity to align technical decisions with business priorities. By reviewing cloud architectures, organizations can spot inefficiencies, strengthen resilience, and prepare for long-term growth. The review covers cost, performance, security, reliability, operational excellence and sustainability aspects of the workloads.
Building a Future-Ready Cloud with FinOps
Optimizing cloud infrastructure is not only about reducing costs but about creating a secure, efficient, and scalable foundation for business growth. By adopting FinOps practices, companies gain transparency into their spending, align costs with value, and ensure that resources are used wisely.
AWS IAM helps strengthen security and compliance, while cloud cost optimization strategies ensure workloads remain efficient without overspending. Whether through rightsizing, security reviews, or Well-Architected assessments, ongoing cloud optimization keeps infrastructures agile, resilient, and future-ready. Embracing FinOps and cloud optimization together enables businesses to maximize the full potential of their cloud investments.
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