Parsimo — FinOps Case Studies

CASE STUDY 01

Rockstar Automations

AWS Cost Optimization — AI-Powered FinOps Platform Deployment

Amazon Web Services

36%

Cost Reduction
vs. baseline spend

$170K+

Annual Savings
$14,200/mo achieved

71%

SP/RI Coverage
from 0% On-Demand

Cost Visibility & Analytics

Dashboard Real-time cost tracking across all AWS accounts with multi-account consolidation

Allocation Cost allocation by team, service & environment with chargeback reporting

Detection Automated anomaly detection: 23 cost spikes caught in first 90 days

Resource Optimization

Right-sizing EC2 & RDS right-sizing — 15 instances downsized, saving $3,200/mo

Cleanup 54 idle resources eliminated: unattached EBS volumes, NAT GWs, snapshots

Savings Plans SP coverage raised from 0% to 71% — $8,100/mo reduction

CASE STUDY 02

MMG — Minerals and Metals Group

Azure Compliance & FinOps Cost Optimization · Australia East (Sydney) & Southeast (Melbourne)

Microsoft Azure

$1.39M

Total Annual Savings
AUD, net cost reduction

30.2%

Total Savings Rate
$4.6M → $3.21M annual

100%

RI Coverage Achieved
Fully off On-Demand pricing

Savings Breakdown

VM-RI Optimization $393K · 28.3%

Backup Optimization $329K · 23.6%

Storage Optimization $248K · 17.9%

Rightsizing & Scheduling $236K · 17.0%

A-Hub / License Optimization $183K · 13.2%

Key Actions

80% Waste removed — idle VMs, redundant backups, unused storage eliminated

SOC 2 Compliance + FinOps dual-track: tagging, IAM, MFA, encryption

GRS→LRS Backup redundancy shift & Hot→Cool storage tiering applied

37 VMs BYOL conversion via Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows VMs

CASE STUDY 03

Large E-Commerce Platform

AWS Cloud Cost Optimization · US-East-2 (Ohio) · Assessment delivered in 1 week

AWS

$2.45M

Total Annual Savings
$7.01M → $4.56M annual

35%

Cost Reduction Rate
Highest across studies

53%

Instances Rightsized
EC2, RDS & ElastiCache

Savings Breakdown

EC2/RDS/ElastiCache RI + Rightsizing $1,629K · 66.4%

EBS Storage Optimization $553K · 22.5%

Idle Asset Elimination $246K · 10.0%

Redshift Rightsizing $26K · 1.1%

Key Actions

gp3 EBS migration to gp3 + automated snapshot pruning policies

10% cut Idle NAT gateways, Elastic IPs & dormant ElastiCache removed

100% RI Full RI coverage for steady-state EC2/RDS/ElastiCache fleets

1 Week Fast assessment-to-action; 50% gainshare model available