AWS FinOps Assessment

Ascendion AWS FinOps Assessment is a structured professional service designed to help organizations establish effective cloud financial management practices across their AWS environments. The engagement enables engineering, finance, and business teams to collaborate on data‑driven spending decisions by improving visibility into AWS usage, cost allocation, governance, and operational efficiency. Ascendion combines a proven Discovery, Analysis, and Recommendations framework with Ascendion Agentic AI–enabled backend accelerators to enhance insight generation, speed analysis, and improve decision‑making across FinOps domains.

During the assessment, Ascendion reviews AWS account structures, tagging strategies, cost allocation models, usage patterns, and billing data such as AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR). Ascendion Agentic AI supports the assessment by assisting in analyzing spend trends, identifying anomalies, highlighting underutilized or idle resources, and recommending high‑impact optimization opportunities across compute, storage, and database services. The service also evaluates Savings Plans and Reserved Instance strategies, governance gaps, and FinOps maturity across people, process, and technology dimensions, while keeping expert consultants in the loop for validation and prioritization.

Offering relates to AWS cloud financial management and optimization initiatives and supports AWS services including AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Reports, AWS Budgets, AWS Organizations, and core AWS compute, storage, and database services. The outcome is a prioritized set of optimization recommendations and a 30/60/90‑day FinOps execution roadmap that improves cost transparency, predictability, and accountability, while enabling customers to use cloud spend as a strategic lever and continuously optimize their AWS environments with the support of Ascendion’s Agentic AI–assisted FinOps capabilities.