Dedalus Cloud Cost Management - FinOps Professional Service

Cloud environments are highly dynamic and complex. Dedalus Cloud Cost Management is a managed FinOps professional service that keeps your cloud infrastructure optimized for business value - delivering over R$ 7M in client savings and completing 500+ FinOps studies in the last 12 months.

Our FinOps Certified Professional team works with mid-to-large enterprises running complex AWS environments to eliminate waste, improve cost visibility, and drive continuous optimization through a structured five-pillar methodology.

This service is designed for organizations with significant AWS cloud spend that lack internal FinOps maturity or dedicated cost optimization resources. Typical buyers include VPs of Infrastructure, FinOps leads, and CTOs at companies running workloads across Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EKS, and other AWS services.

A mid-size SaaS company running 200+ EC2 instances lacked tagging governance and had no visibility into cost allocation across teams. Through our Assessment and Visibility pillars, we implemented a tagging strategy integrated with AWS Cost Explorer and custom dashboards, identified idle resources and oversized instances, and delivered a savings roadmap. Within two bimonthly optimization cycles, the client achieved approved savings targets through right-sizing and Reserved Instance recommendations.

1. Assessment (Weeks 1-3): We understand your cloud environment through tooling and stakeholder interviews, including workload mapping, visibility tool configuration using AWS Cost Explorer and AWS CloudWatch, application understanding, and access to cost bases. Deliverable: Assessment Report with environment baseline and optimization roadmap.

2. Visibility (Weeks 3-6): We identify cost origins, waste, and cost detractors. Through proper tagging integrated with AWS Cost Allocation Tags, resources are dynamically allocated within customized reports and dashboards. Perspectives consolidate tagging structures into simple groups by cost centers, environments, or cloud services. Deliverable: Tagging Strategy Document and configured cost dashboards.

3. Financial Management (Ongoing): We provide predictive analysis, budget definitions, and data generation for better decision-making using AWS Budgets and forecasting tools. Deliverable: Monthly financial reports and budget variance analysis.

4. Optimization and Modernization (Bimonthly Cycles): We remove idle resources, resize machines, update infrastructure, define savings targets, and execute approved recommendations. Each cycle includes current infrastructure cost analysis, client-approved opportunity lists with estimated saving percentages, and monthly governance meetings. Deliverable: Bimonthly Optimization Study with prioritized recommendations.

5. Governance and Automation (Ongoing): We reduce repetitive tasks for your teams through automated governance processes. Deliverable: Automation playbooks and governance policies.

Our recommendations span Amazon RDS database improvements, scalability rules for Auto Scaling groups, Amazon EKS cluster enhancements, and re-architecture strategies.

Contact us to schedule a free initial discovery call where we assess your current cloud spend profile and define the engagement scope.