Driving AWS Cost Efficiency Through Strategic Cloud Governance
A leading Digital Media & Content Platform operating business-critical workloads on AWS. The organisation relied on cloud infrastructure for application hosting, databases, storage, networking, and content delivery, making cloud cost optimisation a strategic business priority.
The Challenge
As cloud adoption expanded, AWS expenditure increased across database, storage, compute, and networking services. The organisation required a structured optimisation programme to reduce costs while maintaining application performance, availability, and business continuity.
Quick Facts
- Industry
- Digital Media & Content Platform
- Key Result
- 49%
Cost Optimisation
Our Approach
The engagement focused on governance-led optimisation, commitment-based pricing, storage lifecycle management, infrastructure rationalisation, and cloud financial governance.
S3 lifecycle optimisation
Database backup & snapshot governance
Reserved Instances & Savings Plan recommendations
Cost allocation & governance controls implementation
Infrastructure clean-up and resource rationalisation
Results
WinCap completed the optimisation assessment in 22.5 working days, identifying opportunities to reduce monthly AWS expenditure from USD 3,424 to approximately USD 1,745, representing a potential 49% cost optimisation.
Improved visibility into cloud consumption and cost drivers
Improved resource utilisation and operational efficiency
A sustainable framework for future cloud cost management
Key Highlights
Through a focused 22.5-day cloud optimisation engagement, WinCap identified a potential 49% reduction in AWS cloud spend, helping the customer transform cloud cost visibility into actionable savings opportunities.
The Solution
WinCap conducted a comprehensive AWS cost and utilisation assessment covering Amazon RDS, Aurora, S3, EC2, EBS, VPC, Load Balancing, and monitoring services. The engagement focused on governance-led optimisation, commitment-based pricing, storage lifecycle management, infrastructure rationalisation, and cloud financial governance.
By combining governance, infrastructure optimisation, and cloud financial management best practices, the organisation is now better positioned to control cloud costs while supporting future business growth.
Results & Impact
49%
Cost Optimisation
10+
AWS Services Assessed
$20K+
Annual Savings
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