Uplifting the bank’s Cloud FinOps capability to realise the true value of cloud.
DigiRen uplifted the Cloud FinOps capability of a Big 4 Bank to address rising cloud costs and changing perceptions around cloud value. By embedding a FinOps uplift pod, driving cost optimisation campaigns, and delivering a cloud tagging compliance program, DigiRen enabled the bank to achieve 22% annual cloud savings in FY23, 95% tagging compliance, and fostered a collaborative cost-conscious culture across 12 Technology Domains.
Our client is one of the “big 4” banks in Australia, providing banking and financial products and services to over 8.5 million retail and business customers across more than 30 markets in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific, Europe, America and the Middle East.
As part of the bank’s ‘Simplification’ program launched in 2018/2019, the bank commenced a mass migration of applications to public cloud - AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. That journey has involved migrating existing applications to the cloud and building new applications in the cloud.
With the migration effort focused on velocity, cloud bills were increasing at a higher rate than expected, creating a growing perception across the bank that the cloud was too expensive. The Bank sought DigiRen’s services to identify cloud operations uplift opportunities to support the current and future scale of their cloud adoption. DigiRen’s approach was to conduct a Cloud Operating Model Assessment, that identified Cloud FinOps capability as a key opportunity area.
To help the bank manage cloud spend and the perception towards to the benefits of cloud by uplifting the bank’s Cloud FinOps capability.
With the deployment of a 3-team pod of highly experienced Cloud Operating Model SME’s, DigiRen uplifted the bank's Cloud FinOps capabilities by:
Supported by strong executive sponsorship, DigiRen helped the Bank to deliver: