How a Fortune 500 financial services company, with multimillion-dollar AWS spend, achieved enterprise-wide cost governance and a 15% reduction in cloud infrastructure costs through a structured FinOps program.
A leading global financial services company partnered with MacondoTek to optimize and govern its rapidly growing AWS infrastructure costs. With multimillion-dollar cloud spend across hundreds of AWS accounts and multiple regions, the organization required a structured approach to identify inefficiencies, improve resource utilization, and establish ongoing cost governance. MacondoTek deployed its proprietary MTK CloudOpps platform for enterprise-wide visibility, conducted a comprehensive FinOps and architecture review, and through targeted optimization initiatives helped the client reduce AWS infrastructure costs by 15% — while establishing a repeatable quarterly optimization program.
The client is a global, publicly traded leader in business payments and financial technology, helping organizations of all sizes automate, secure, and control how they manage and pay expenses. Its portfolio spans several specialized payment categories: fleet and fuel card programs for vehicle-related expenses (including tolls, parking, and EV charging); accounts payable automation and virtual card solutions that streamline vendor and cross-border payments; and lodging payment programs that help businesses manage workforce travel, corporate housing, and hospitality-related costs at scale. Operating across multiple business units and geographies, the organization runs a large-scale AWS environment spanning hundreds of accounts and regions to support its enterprise platforms, transaction processing, and analytics capabilities
MacondoTek is a cloud consulting and professional services firm headquartered in Atlanta, USA, with nearshore delivery teams across Latin America, specializing in cloud architecture, data platforms, and application modernization on AWS. As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner with Service Delivery Program designations for Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB, MacondoTek supports organizations across the full cloud lifecycle, from migration through cloud-native development to 24/7 managed operations. Its proprietary MTK CloudOpps platform powers FinOps and cost governance engagements with enterprise-wide visibility across large multi-account AWS environments, including deep experience serving financial services organizations that must balance reliability, security, and compliance with cost optimization.
The client’s AWS environment had grown rapidly to support multiple applications and business units across a global organization. As cloud adoption expanded, infrastructure costs increased significantly and required deeper analysis and governance — a multimillion-dollar cloud spend across hundreds of AWS accounts and multiple regions, with limited visibility to identify inefficiencies at scale.
Underutilized and oversized infrastructure resources had accumulated across compute, database, and storage. Legacy development environments and unused assets remained active and generating costs. Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage was inconsistent, leaving significant discount opportunities unrealized. Inefficient network architecture — including unnecessary cross-region and cross-AZ data transfer — added cost without delivering business value, and storage and backup policies lacked adequate lifecycle governance.
The client needed a structured approach to identify cost optimization opportunities across the entire organization without compromising platform performance or reliability.
MacondoTek implemented a comprehensive cloud cost optimization program combining FinOps analysis, infrastructure review, and architectural improvements — anchored by its proprietary MTK CloudOpps platform for enterprise-wide visibility.
MTK CloudOpps aggregated and analyzed data across the client’s full AWS footprint: hundreds of accounts, multiple regions, and all major resource types including compute, database, storage, and networking. This centralized inventory gave leadership and engineering teams a complete view of their cloud environment and surfaced optimization opportunities that would otherwise be invisible in a distributed enterprise environment.
With visibility established, MacondoTek executed a systematic optimization program across five dimensions: infrastructure utilization (identification and removal of underutilized compute, legacy development assets, and orphaned resources); compute and database right-sizing (Amazon RDS instance optimization, Lambda resource allocation, oversized workload identification); pricing optimization (organization-wide review of Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage to maximize discount realization); network architecture optimization (elimination of unnecessary cross-region and cross-AZ data transfer, NAT Gateway and Transit Gateway usage review); and storage governance (S3 lifecycle policies to tier data to lower-cost storage classes, backup and snapshot retention optimization).
MacondoTek’s optimization initiatives delivered a 15% reduction in overall AWS cloud spend — with savings representing over $1M. Enterprise-wide visibility through MTK CloudOpps gave leadership and engineering teams a complete view of their cloud footprint for the first time, creating a foundation for ongoing financial governance. The engagement identified and removed unused infrastructure and legacy assets, improved efficiency across compute, storage, and networking, and optimized Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage. Beyond the immediate savings, MacondoTek established a quarterly cost optimization program — making cloud cost management a continuous practice rather than a one-time project.
MTK CloudOpps provides enterprise-wide visibility across hundreds of AWS accounts and regions — enabling optimization opportunities that would otherwise be invisible in large distributed environments.
Extensive experience supporting financial services organizations where reliability, security, and governance must be maintained while aggressively optimizing costs.
MacondoTek's approach addresses all cost dimensions simultaneously — compute, storage, networking, pricing, and governance — delivering compounding savings across the full AWS footprint.
Rather than a one-time engagement, MacondoTek established a quarterly optimization program, ensuring cost efficiency is maintained as the AWS environment grows and evolves.
