Anchored to an Open Standard, Not a Bespoke One
Explicit alignment to the FinOps Foundation Framework (Crawl/Walk/Run, six capability domains, FOCUS) and the AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization Pillar. Legible to any FinOps-literate CFO.
Manage & Optimize
Cloud FinOps for Regulated Enterprises
Your cloud bill climbed this year and no one can fully explain why. Under 40% of it is tagged, so genuine waste and the controls your regulator mandates look identical on the invoice. Flentas runs FinOps as a governed practice: a 20–35% spend cut, without cutting what compliance expects to see.
The Reality
What Breaks FinOps at a Regulated Entity
Your cloud bill climbed this year and no one can fully explain why. Under 40% of it is tagged, so genuine waste and the controls your regulator mandates look identical on the invoice.
Nobody can explain the bill
With tagging under 40% there's no clean way to trace spend to a team, product or business line, so every review ends in guesswork.
Tools flag mandated controls as waste
Generic FinOps treats DR replication, audit accounts and retained logs as savings, and recommends removing what a regulator requires.
Compliance cost and waste look identical
GuardDuty, Macie, CloudTrail, KMS and cross-region DR get lumped in with inefficiency, so the real saving stays buried.
GenAI spend outruns monthly reviews
Token growth and agentic loops with no ceiling make the fastest-growing cost line the least governed.
Commitments no longer fit usage
Savings Plans and reserved capacity were bought for a workload shape that has since changed.
Cost has no owner
Engineering spends, Finance pays, and neither has the data or the mandate to change it.
Key Benefits
FinOps That Respects the Regulator, Not Just the Invoice
Generic cost-cutting can flag a control your auditor expects to see as waste. Flentas anchors to the FinOps Foundation's open framework, then layers a regulatory overlay and a GenAI cost lane on top, so every saving is defensible in procurement and in audit.
A Regulatory Overlay, Built In From Day One
RBI, IRDAI, SEBI, CERT-In and DPDP Act obligations shape tagging, account structure, data residency and audit evidence before a single savings percentage comes up.
Four Cost Buckets, Not Two
Run, growth, compliance and innovation, tracked separately. Compliance cost is trended but never a reduction target unless your own risk function signs off.
A GenAI and Agentic AI Cost Lane
Token and per-agent-run costs behave nothing like EC2 or RDS. We govern them with model routing, context-length budgets, per-agent caps and chargeback.
Proof Points
Measured Outcomes From Real Cloud Cost Optimization Engagements
20–35%AWS spend reduction delivered per engagement
<40% → >85%Tagging coverage lift for a typical client
<5%Forecast variance target once the practice is live
How It Works
Maturity-Based Delivery: Enter Where You Are, Not Where a Template Assumes
A three-account digital lender and a 200-account bank sit at different Crawl/Walk/Run stages of the same methodology, mapped to the FinOps Foundation's Inform, Optimize and Operate phases.
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Assess (Inform)
Stakeholder workshops, CUR/FOCUS cost analysis, tagging and allocation review, a compliance-cost baseline and a GenAI and license inventory. You leave with a FinOps Health Scorecard and a maturity-stage recommendation per account or BU.
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Architect, Automate & Modernize (Optimize)
Insight Dashboard deployment, tagging automation, anomaly detection, RI/Savings Plan design, GenAI cost controls and application modernization where it's shortlisted. You leave with live guardrails and governed accounts.
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Operate & Govern (Managed Service)
Monthly cost reviews, quarterly scorecard refresh, continuous anomaly and RI/SP lifecycle management and ongoing GenAI governance, delivered as an SLA-backed managed service.
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Run-State Governance Cadence
Weekly anomaly and budget-alert triage, monthly run/growth/compliance/innovation reviews, quarterly RI/SP portfolio reviews and an annual regulatory overlay refresh, each with named Flentas and client owners.
Framework & Tooling
Six Capability Domains, Mapped to Flentas IP
The FinOps Foundation's six domains structure everything we deliver, each backed by a Flentas accelerator that keeps working long after the assessment ends.
Understand Usage & Cost
CUR2/FOCUS-normalized data pipeline, account and tag taxonomy, and showback by BU or product, powered by the FinOps Insight Dashboard on QuickSight and Athena.
Quantify Business Value
Unit economics finance trusts: cost per transaction, per policy, per active user, per model inference, delivered through the Unit Economics Accelerator.
Manage FinOps Practice
RACI, review cadences, FinOps-as-a-practice rollout and CXO, Finance and Engineering enablement, packaged in the FinOps Operating Model Playbook.
Real-Time Decisions & Anomaly Management
Automated anomaly detection, budget alerts and Slack or Teams notification through SmartOps Bot: a spend spike reaches an owner in minutes, not at month-end.
Optimize Usage (Workload)
Rightsizing, idle-resource elimination, architecture-level efficiency and Graviton or serverless migration, driven by the Savings Recommendation Engine.
Optimize Rate (Pricing & Commitment)
RI and Savings Plan portfolio management, Spot strategy and EDP/PPA alignment, run through the RI/SP Lifecycle Manager.
Who We Serve
Built for Indian Regulated Entities
A technically valid optimization can still be non-compliant, for example moving audit logs to a cheaper storage class before the mandated retention period. Our overlay catches it before it reaches production.
RBI-Regulated Entities
Banks, NBFCs and payment system operators, aligned to the Master Direction on Outsourcing of IT Services, cloud security posture advisories and India-only storage for payment system data.
IRDAI-Regulated Entities
Insurers and intermediaries, covered by the Information and Cyber Security Guidelines and the Outsourcing of Activities by Indian Insurers Regulations, extending to cloud-hosted FinOps tooling.
SEBI-Regulated Entities
Exchanges, intermediaries, AMCs and RTAs, mapped to the Cloud Adoption Framework's nine security principles and the Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF).
Cross-Cutting: CERT-In & DPDP
CERT-In incident-reporting timelines and DPDP Act obligations on data fiduciaries shape how our own access to your billing and usage data is scoped, logged and time-boxed.
Case Studies
Proof, Not Projections
70%Lower container runtime cost
Unpredictable traffic spikes forced ECS over-provisioning. A custom SQS-depth autoscaling framework on Fargate Spot cut container runtime costs 70% and ECS over-provisioning 60%, with zero downtime, rolled out in six hours.
~40%Cost savings, sustained
High infra costs and manual, inconsistent resource management. Automated EC2 start/stop schedules plus AWS Savings Plans drove roughly 40% cost savings, sustained through ongoing managed FinOps.
99.99%Fewer user drop-offs
Infrastructure that wasn't built to scale under surging traffic. A serverless, pay-as-you-go redesign with automated releases cut manual overhead and drove a 99.99% reduction in user drop-offs.
“We had a Savings Plan that made sense for the workload we ran two years ago. Nobody had touched it since. Flentas rebuilt our cost allocation by business unit, found the idle resources actually driving the overage, and put a scorecard in front of Finance that made the next budget conversation five minutes instead of two meetings. Forecast variance is under 5% now — it used to be a coin flip.”
CFOLeading NBFC, India
What's Next
Where This Fits in Your Journey
One engagement is one stage. Here is what usually comes before and after, so the next step is always clear.
Agentic Cloud Operations
Around-the-clock operations that keep the estate stable while the plan matures.
Explore Agentic Cloud OperationsCloud Cost Optimization (FinOps)
Turn a rising bill into a managed, forecastable line item.
DevOps and Automation
Make every release a routine, low-risk event.
Explore DevOps and AutomationApplication and Database Modernization
Clear the application and database debt that migration alone does not solve.
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Start With a Free AWS Bill Assessment
We baseline your spend, tagging coverage and compliance cost, then hand you a FinOps Health Scorecard and a maturity-stage recommendation per account. Fixed scope, two to four weeks.
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