FinOps and GreenOps successes on AWS: A customer story
summary
Wehkamp and Xebia describe concrete steps: ingest CUR into QuickSight and a custom Sustainability Dashboard, push cost and carbon metrics into Slack, and use Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch, VMware Tanzu CloudHealth plus automation to act. Results show 27% cloud savings, 50% storage reduction that cuts storage spend 44%, 63% drop in monitoring costs, and recurring six‑figure annual savings while serving ~0.5M daily visitors and >€600M revenue. Focus is on visibility, weekly reviews, benchmarks and team-level accountability.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to CIA
- 1:31Defining FinOps
- 5:22Understanding GreenOps
- 9:20Vakom Retail success story
- 13:27Guest insights from Vakom
- 16:07Key takeaways and conclusion
