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AWS FinOps & Cost Governance | AWS | Symhas
AWS · FinOps · Cost Explorer · Savings Plans · Rightsizing · Tagging · Anomaly Detection
AWS Gives You 200 Ways to Spend Money.
Symhas Finds the 30% You Are Wasting.AWS cost problems are tagging problems, rightsizing problems, and commitment strategy problems. Most organisations carry 25–40% of AWS spend that can be recovered without changing a single business capability. Symhas finds it and recovers it.Symhas implements a full AWS FinOps programme — mandatory tagging enforced via SCPs, rightsizing validated against 90 days of usage, Savings Plans modelled before purchase, anomaly detection alerting within hours, and a monthly showback report that puts ownership where the spend is.
↓33%Average AWS cost reduction in year one from Symhas FinOps — without removing capability
100%Resource tagging coverage enforced via SCP — cost attribution to every owner
40-60%On-demand cost reduction from Compute Savings Plans and Reserved Instance optimisation
4wkAWS FinOps programme — tagging, rightsizing, commitments, showback — fixed price
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↓33%Average AWS cost reduction in year one from Symhas FinOps — without capability reduction
100%Resource tagging coverage enforced via SCP after Symhas implementation
40-60%On-demand cost reduction from Compute Savings Plans and Reserved Instance optimisation
4wkFull AWS FinOps — tagging, rightsizing, commitments, anomaly detection, showback
What We Deliver
Core Capabilities.
Production-Grade on AWS.

Every capability designed, deployed, and documented by Symhas AWS-certified architects. Fixed price. SLA-backed from go-live.

Tagging Strategy & Cost AllocationTag policies · SCP enforcement · Cost allocation · Showback · Chargeback
Cost visibility starts with tagging. Symhas designs a mandatory tag taxonomy — cost centre, application, environment, owner — enforced via AWS Organizations tag policies and SCP-based blocking of untagged resource creation so every new resource is attributed from day one.
Tag taxonomy — mandatory tags (cost centre, application, environment, owner) with allowed values
AWS Organizations tag policies — tag inheritance and allowed value enforcement across all accounts
SCP enforcement — untagged resource creation blocked in all non-sandbox accounts
Cost allocation tag activation — tags activated in Cost Explorer for dimension-level analysis
Remediation — retrospective tagging of existing untagged resources with automated assistance
Every dollar of AWS spend attributed to a cost centre and owner — cloud is no longer a shared unallocated pool
Rightsizing & Idle Resource EliminationCompute Optimizer · Idle EC2 · Unattached EBS · GP2 to GP3 · S3 Intelligent-Tiering
AWS Compute Optimizer identifies over-provisioned EC2, Lambda, ECS tasks, and EBS volumes. Symhas validates every recommendation against 90 days of actual usage before implementing — catching workloads with infrequent peaks the standard 14-day window misses.
Compute Optimizer — EC2, Lambda, ECS, and EBS recommendations with confidence scores
Idle resource sweep — EC2 under 5% CPU, unattached EBS, unused EIPs, empty load balancers
GP2 to GP3 migration — 20% cost reduction with equivalent IOPS, zero performance change
S3 Intelligent-Tiering — lifecycle policies from S3 Storage Lens access pattern data
Changes tested in non-production before production implementation
Rightsizing implemented safely — 90-day validation, non-production testing before every production change
Savings Plans & Reserved Instance StrategyCompute Savings Plans · EC2 RI · RDS RI · Coverage analysis · Renewal calendar
Savings Plans and Reserved Instances reduce on-demand compute cost by 40–60% — but only when commitment level and term match actual usage. Symhas models optimal commitment before purchase and implements in tranches as usage is confirmed.
Savings Plans coverage analysis — on-demand eligible for commitment, by service and region
Compute Savings Plans recommendation — amount, term, and payment option modelled before purchase
EC2 and RDS RI analysis — family, region, tenancy, and size for maximum coverage
RI exchange — underutilised RIs identified and exchanged for better-matched instances
Renewal calendar — 90-day advance recommendations for every expiring commitment
Commitment strategy that reduces spend without over-committing to capacity that changes
Cost Anomaly Detection & Budget GovernanceAnomaly Detection · Budgets · Budget Actions · Showback · Forecast
AWS cost anomalies compound silently. A misconfigured NAT Gateway or forgotten test environment adds thousands per month before anyone notices. Symhas configures anomaly detection that alerts within hours of the spike, not at month-end.
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection — ML-based per service, account, and cost category
AWS Budgets — monthly and annual with forecast-based alerting before threshold breach
Budget Actions — automated EC2 stop or IAM policy attach when budget is breached
Monthly showback report — AWS spend by cost centre, application, and environment
Forecast vs actual — budget variance report with explanation for IT finance
Cost anomalies caught in hours — not discovered at month-end when the damage is compounded
Delivery Model
Assessment to Production.
Fixed Price. Fixed Timeline.

Four phases with go/no-go gates. Scope and price agreed before week one.

01
Cost Assessment & Savings QuantificationWeek 1

AWS spend analysis by service, account, and region. Tagging coverage gap quantified. Rightsizing opportunities from Compute Optimizer. Savings Plans coverage gap. Total addressable savings estimate produced.

02
Tagging & Governance ImplementationWeek 2

Tag taxonomy agreed with finance and engineering. AWS Organizations tag policies deployed. SCP tagging enforcement in non-sandbox accounts. Existing resource remediation executed. Cost allocation tags activated in Cost Explorer.

03
Savings Plans & RightsizingWeek 3

Compute Savings Plans purchased from usage analysis. EC2 and RDS rightsizing implemented in non-prod then prod. GP2 to GP3 EBS migration. S3 lifecycle policies applied. Idle resource cleanup completed.

04
Anomaly Detection & Showback ReportingWeek 4

Cost Anomaly Detection configured. AWS Budgets and Budget Actions set. Monthly showback report template built in Cost Explorer. First report delivered. Finance team trained. Symhas moves to advisory.

Financial Services · AWS FinOps$25B AUM Asset Manager.
$180K Annual Saving. 100% Tagged. ↓33% AWS Cost.

The firm was spending $540K per year on AWS with 62% of resources untagged, 14 EC2 instances under 10% average CPU, no Savings Plans, and no anomaly detection. Finance had no visibility into which business units were driving which costs.

Symhas implemented a full AWS FinOps programme — SCP-enforced tagging, 14 EC2 rightsizings, Compute Savings Plans reducing on-demand spend by 47%, and a monthly showback report. Total annual saving: $180K against a $540K baseline.

↓33%Annual AWS cost
$180KYear-one saving
100%Resource tagging
47%On-demand reduction
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What was delivered

AWS FinOps Programme — Financial Services Cost Optimisation

→Tag taxonomy — 4 mandatory tags enforced via SCPs across all accounts
→Remediation — 2,340 untagged resources tagged in first 2 weeks
→EC2 rightsizing — 14 instances downsized, $84K annual saving
→Compute Savings Plans — $18K monthly commitment, 47% on-demand reduction, $76K annual saving
→GP2 to GP3 — 340 EBS volumes migrated, $12K annual saving, equivalent performance
→Showback — 6 business unit owners receiving individual AWS cost reports for the first time

“Before the FinOps programme, cloud was an IT line item nobody owned. After the showback reports, every business unit wanted to know why their number was what it was. That changed spending behaviour.”

— CFO, Global Asset Management Firm

AWS Services Deployed
The Specific AWS Services
We Configure for This Capability.
AWS
AWS Cost Explorer

Cost analysis — spend by service, account, tag, and region with rightsizing and Savings Plans recommendations.

Spend breakdown by dimension
Rightsizing recommendation review
Savings Plans analysis
RI utilisation and coverage
AWS
AWS Compute Optimizer

Rightsizing recommendations — EC2, Lambda, ECS, and EBS with confidence scores and performance risk.

EC2 rightsizing
Lambda memory optimisation
ECS task rightsizing
EBS volume type and size
AWS
AWS Savings Plans

Commitment discounts — Compute and EC2 Instance Savings Plans, 40–60% on-demand reduction.

Coverage analysis before purchase
Term and payment option modelling
Utilisation monitoring
90-day expiry planning
AWS
AWS Budgets

Budget governance — monthly and annual budgets with forecast alerts and automated actions.

Budget creation per account
Forecast-based alerting
Budget Actions on breach
Budget vs actual reporting
AWS
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

ML anomaly detection — cost spikes per service, account, and cost category alerted within hours.

Anomaly monitor configuration
Sensitivity tuning
Email and SNS notification
Root cause analysis
AWS
AWS Organizations Tag Policies

Tag governance — mandatory tag enforcement with allowed value lists across the organisation.

Tag policy design and deployment
Allowed value enforcement
Tag inheritance
Non-compliant resource reporting
Why Symhas
AWS Expertise Built from Production Deployments.
Savings Quantified Before Engagement ConfirmedSymhas produces a total addressable savings estimate before the price is agreed. You know the expected saving and payback period before committing to anything.
Rightsizing Against 90 Days, Not 14Compute Optimizer uses 14 days — monthly peaks are missed. Symhas validates every recommendation against 90 days of CloudWatch metrics.
Savings Plans Modelled Before PurchaseOver-committing or under-committing both waste money. Symhas models optimal commitment level against actual usage before any purchase is made.
Tagging Enforcement Before RemediationFixing untagged resources without preventing new ones is a recurring exercise. Symhas deploys SCP tagging enforcement first — every new resource tagged from the start of the programme.
Anomaly Detection Configured on Day OneAnomaly detection after a surprise bill is too late. Symhas configures Cost Anomaly Detection on day one of the engagement — the first alert arrives before the first showback report.
Finance Team Runs the Showback IndependentlyBy handover your finance team produces the monthly showback from Cost Explorer without Symhas. Trained, certified, and independent before the engagement ends.
Also on AWS
Explore the Other AWS Capabilities.
AWS Landing Zone & Migration

The account structure and mandatory tagging foundation that FinOps cost allocation is built on.

Container & Serverless Architecture

EKS node group rightsizing, Spot optimisation, and Lambda cost tuning in FinOps scope.

AWS AI/ML Platform

SageMaker Spot training and inference endpoint rightsizing as part of the FinOps programme.

Next Step
Tell Us Your Monthly AWS Spend.
We Will Tell You How Much Is Recoverable.A 30-minute AWS FinOps assessment with a Symhas cloud economist. We will analyse your Cost Explorer data, quantify rightsizing and Savings Plans opportunities, and produce a total addressable savings estimate before the engagement begins.
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