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FinOps optimization with AWS
Cloud costs under control. Innovation in focus.
Pay only for what you actually use
Lower your AWS costs by up to 53% – without loss of performance, stability, or security. Our experts analyze your cloud environment and create a detailed cost report with concrete, scalable optimization suggestions.
FinOps isn’t a one-time project – it’s continuous cost management
Many companies incorrectly treat FinOps like a one-time cost-cutting measure. But in reality, cloud workloads, budgets, and requirements are constantly changing. Optimization potential can only be harnessed in the long term through continuous monitoring, adaptation, and automation.
With Skaylink, you receive FinOps not only as a consultation service, but also as an integrated part of our managed services on request. This keeps your cloud efficient, secure, and cost-effective – in a new way every day.
Why FinOps with Skaylink?
In the cloud, every euro counts. Best practices are by no means enough – a strategic approach is needed. Skaylink combines technical expertise with financial foresight to get the most out of your AWS environment.
- Take back control!
Identify cost drivers, optimize your savings plans and reservations, and create transparency through clear cost reports and governance.
- Increase your efficiency.
Use your resources intelligently through rightsizing, automation, and forward-looking monitoring using AI/ML.
- Increase your profitability.
Reduce your operating costs, reduce your budget, and invest the freed-up funds in innovation and growth.
How our FinOps consultation works
Skaylink supports you in a structured, data-supported manner, and usually within 1 to 3 weeks.
Step 1 – Data analysis
We obtain access to your AWS accounts and gather usage and cost data.
Step 2 – In-depth analysis
Our specialist team identifies inefficiencies and untapped savings potential.
Step 3 – Optimization report
You will receive a tailored report with concrete handling recommendations, including forecasts, visualizations, and a business case.
Step 4 – Implementation
You implement the measures yourself or leave the implementation to us as part of our professional services.
Lowering AWS costs – Our best practices
An effective FinOps program combines technical efficiency with financial intelligence. Skaylink supports you holistically in optimizing your cloud costs – from rightsizing and savings plans to monitoring and governance.
Rightsizing & platform modernization
Immediately after a migration or during operation, we automatically check your resources with the AWS Compute Optimizer. Our aim is to identify oversized or inefficiently used instances, volumes, and services. In doing so, we pay attention to:
- Recommended instance types (for example, changing to T- or R-family, AMD, or Graviton)
- Volume analysis (for example, using gp3, reducing unnecessary IOPS)
- Optimizing RDS, Lambda, OpenSearch (for Graviton support, among other things)
- License and operating system check to avoid unnecessary license costs
- Automated shutoff of unnecessary resources (for example, at night or on the weekend)
- Modernization of existing platforms to reduce technical debt
Notes: CloudWatch agents must be enabled for full data collection, otherwise no metrics on storage usage or IOPS can be provided.
Commercial optimization & procurement
Alongside technical optimization, we follow a strategic purchasing strategy:
- Compute savings plans (e.g., for EC2, Lambda, ECS, Fargate)
Recommendation: 3 years, no upfront costs, 100% coverage via a management account - RDS reserved instances (not covered by savings plans)
➝ 1 year or 3 years with partial payment - Maximum flexibility and visibility thanks to central processing via a management account
Monitoring, budgets, and anomalies
- Monthly reviews of your AWS budget and active services for anomaly detection
- AWS Cost Optimization Hub: Overview of all active savings plans and untapped savings potential
Use of Cloud Intelligence Dashboards:
➝ Visualization of forecasts, cost variances, tagging, and budget tracking
➝ Perfectly suited for enterprise reporting and FinOps governance
Backup and retention management
- Regular check of new backup vaults for correctly configured retention periods
- Prevention of high costs due to incorrect configurations, for example in the case of Vault Lock Policies
AWS Cloud Intelligence Dashboards – full transparency at your fingertips
A central element of our FinOps strategy is the Cloud Intelligence Dashboard from AWS. This powerful open-source framework can be rolled out in your environment in less than 30 minutes (via CloudFormation or CLI). It visualizes detailed cost, benefit, and performance data from your AWS account and provides a reliable basis for data-supported decision making.
With the dashboard, you get:
- Real-time insight into your expenditures, usage figures, and budgets
- Automated evaluation of trends, anomalies, and forecasts
- Granular breakdown by accounts, tags, services, and projects
- Comparison between actual and planned expenditures (budget vs. spend)
- Visualization of savings potential, for example untapped resources or oversized instances
- Support for governance and FinOps processes through customizable widgets, filters, and alerts
Particularly for larger cloud environments or multi-account structures, the central, consolidated view of all key KPIs offers a key advantage – for technical and commercial stakeholders alike.
Girteka reduced costs by 53%
Learn how Skaylink achieved drastic improvements in AWS infrastructure efficiency and cost optimization.
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