Cloud Cost Reduction Delivers Significant Savings and Drives Efficiency
About GRUPO SADA
GRUPO SADA, with operations across various sectors of the economy, stands out for offering tailor-made quality products and services to each client. The group is a reference in many of its areas of operation.
To further boost its efficiency and competitiveness, the company embarked on a digital transformation journey, seeking innovative solutions to optimize its processes and connect even more deeply with its customers.
The Challenge of Cloud Cost Optimization
For many companies entering the cloud, there is a common challenge: knowing how much they will spend on the solution in the long term. Without a well-defined plan to control expenses, the flexibility of the cloud, with its various providers, can generate fragmented forecasts and a limited view of what is actually being paid.
GRUPO SADA already relied on AWS cloud services to meet all its operational demands. The wide range of services offered by AWS allowed GRUPO SADA to maintain its entire infrastructure in the cloud.
Like many companies that use the AWS cloud, GRUPO SADA faced the challenge of controlling and optimizing its cloud service expenses, a constant challenge that they understand to be inherent in the use of cloud services.
Therefore, GRUPO SADA sought a solution to gain better control over its cloud expenses, as well as to identify and direct investments more efficiently. This is how the partnership between SADA and ForceOne emerged, through FinOps services and consulting.
Solution
In a scenario of constant technological evolution, cloud cost optimization becomes increasingly crucial for business success. We can say that FinOps operations are key to achieving greater success in the cloud.
FinOps, or “Financial Operations,” on AWS is the practice of managing and optimizing the costs of your cloud infrastructure. Through this operation, it is possible to:
- Consolidate all expense data in one place, showing everything you are using and how much you are paying.
- Set rules and limits for expenses, preventing unwanted amounts on the bill.
- Identify areas for improvement and new opportunities, as well as having the numbers at your fingertips. With this, we can generate personalized reports that can lead to new strategic paths.
The cloud, without proper resource utilization and financial control, can lead companies to unnecessary costs, hindering businesses from reaping all the economic benefits of the cloud and often preventing the best options for a particular solution from being adopted. Choosing a cloud solution involves various criteria, and finance is one of them. Adopting cost management practices for cloud usage is a mandatory step, and the success of this solution is directly linked to these practices.
Results that Impact the Business
The implementation of ForceOne’s FinOps service generated significant results for GRUPO SADA:
- Cost Reduction: Cloud expense optimization resulted in monthly savings of 22% for GRUPO SADA, representing a positive financial impact and freeing up resources for other investments.
- Clear Vision of Expenses: The partner gained a transparent and detailed view of its AWS expenses, facilitating financial planning and control.
- Operational Efficiency: Optimizing cloud resources contributed to improved operational efficiency, with better application performance and reduced waste.
- Return on Investment: ForceOne’s FinOps service proved to be a high-return investment for Sada, delivering significant savings and optimizing AWS cloud usage.
Why Choose ForceOne for FinOps Services?
ForceOne stands out in the market for its expertise in AWS Cloud solutions. As an Advanced AWS Partner, the brand offers a comprehensive range of services that address the specific needs of its cloud clients. One of the company’s main focuses is to contribute to cost optimization, offering the benefits of FinOps operations for the AWS cloud.
With in-depth knowledge of the AWS platform, advanced cost monitoring and analysis tools, strategic partnerships with companies such as TD Synnex, and a team specialized in cost optimization, ForceOne helps businesses of all sizes maximize their cloud investments.
ForceOne presented GRUPO SADA with an innovative cloud cost management service. This solution includes:
- Centralized Billing: Billing is done through the distributor TD Synnex, issuing invoices in Brazilian Reais (R$) and offering an extended cash flow of up to 40 days, providing greater financial flexibility.
- Monitoring and Analysis: We use advanced AWS cost monitoring and analysis tools to identify usage patterns, waste, and optimization opportunities.
- Personalized Recommendations: Based on data analysis, we develop personalized recommendations such as instance resizing, storage optimization, using more efficient services, redefining architectures, and implementing cost governance policies.
- Implementation and Monitoring: We assist the partner company in implementing optimization recommendations and continuously monitor the results, ensuring the effectiveness of the FinOps solution.
