AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Kevin Long
Kevin is a principal FinOps strategist at AWS, focused on public sector organizations in the EMEA region. He advises executive stakeholders with developing a robust approach to cloud financial management and the development of FinOps’ capabilities. Kevin is a chartered accountant (ICAEW, FCA) and has worked in the technology sector for most of his career, with a focus on using data to deliver tangible business outcomes.
Cultural shift to cloud savings: The Department for Work and Pension’s FinOps journey reduces costs and boosts citizen services
In today’s climate, there is a need for government entities to achieve cost optimization while maintaining high standards of service delivery and data security. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s largest public service organization, implemented AWS Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) best practices, and reduced its cloud consumption costs by 23 percent in fiscal year 2023-24, resulting in annual savings of GBP £8.7 million.
4 steps EdTechs can take to grow their profitability on AWS
Funding sources for education technology (EdTech) companies slowed down in 2023. EdTech leaders must strike the right balance of investment to drive growth, and a return on investment for their owners. Read this blog post for an outline of the profitability framework that Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses with customers. The framework helps EdTechs improve cost efficiency, assess functionality expansion, and grow market share.
New research shows EU and UK healthcare sectors could save 14.4 billion euros with AWS
The AWS Cloud Economics Centre published a new analysis that identified 14.4 billion euros in potential information technology (IT) savings across the European Union and United Kingdom healthcare sectors over the next five years—the equivalent of 5,665 euros per hospital bed—through the digital transformation of IT systems by migrating to the cloud.