case study
Industry
Travel Software
Cloud Suite
Microsoft Azure
Results
Identified £70,000+ in annual savings
context
Client Context & Background
The client, a travel software company, had a strong engineering culture but needed formal FinOps processes to control costs effectively. Only 5% of resources were properly tagged, making it nearly impossible to attribute costs to specific teams or projects. Orphaned disks and underutilised Virtual Machines were running silently and generating unnecessary bills. Disaster Recovery and testing environments were running on expensive, high-performance storage tiers that weren't required for their workload profiles.
Results
Results & Outcomes Achieved
The engagement identified £20,000+ in quick wins and £50,000+ in further potential savings — equivalent to around 30% of total cloud spend. This broke down into £8,700 from cleanup through orphaned resource deletion, £11,700 from optimisation through storage reservations and UAT database rightsizing, £46,000 from architectural changes through disk redundancy optimisation, and £5,700 from scheduling through automated test environment shutdowns. The engagement also established a tagging strategy to ensure every pound spent is owned and tracked, freed up the IT team to focus on value-add activities, and transitioned the organisation towards a standardised FinOps operating model.
Process
Our Process & Key Observations
Finabeo moved the client from discovery mode to action with a clear three-step optimisation plan. Cleanup identified and marked unused VMs and unattached disks for immediate termination. Optimise downgraded storage for non-production environments to standard, cost-effective tiers and rightsized UAT databases. Architect locked in lower rates for long-term workloads through reservations and optimised disk redundancy settings for a significant long-term saving. Optimus provided the resource-level analysis, and Finabeo's consultants layered expert review and a tagging strategy on top to ensure the savings were sustainable and repeatable.
