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Payments platform cuts cloud spend 34% and recovers $2.4M in waste

Anomaly alerts in real time. Unified tagging across 8 AWS accounts. Rightsizing executed via automated PRs. No FinOps headcount required.

JANFEBMAR APRMAYJUN JULAUG ↓ 43% CLOUD SPEND REDUCTION $2.1M$1.9M$1.7M $1.5M$1.3M$1.1M $0.9M$1.2M NUDGEBEE FINOPS · CLOUD COST INTELLIGENCE
34%
Cloud Spend Reduced
$2.4M
Waste Recovered
8
AWS Accounts Unified
8 hrs
Saved per Week on Reviews
01 — Challenge

Eight accounts, zero unified visibility

A fast-scaling payments platform had grown its AWS footprint across 8 accounts over five years of rapid expansion. What started as a single-account setup had become a sprawling multi-account architecture with no unified tagging strategy, no cross-account cost visibility, and no automated governance.

Their engineering team knew they were overspending - anomaly spikes regularly appeared in monthly bills, but by the time they were noticed, the damage was done. Rightsizing was manual, infrequent, and conservative - engineers were reluctant to change production resource allocations without data to back the decision.

With transaction volumes growing 40% year-over-year, the team needed to scale without their cloud bill scaling proportionally. They couldn't hire a FinOps team fast enough to keep pace.

02 — Solution

Real-time intelligence across all accounts

Nudgebee's AI-FinOps Assistant connected to all 8 AWS accounts within a day, establishing a unified cost topology without requiring any infrastructure changes. It immediately began correlating spend across accounts, services, and environments.

Real-Time Anomaly Detection
Nudgebee flagged cost spikes within minutes of occurrence across all 8 accounts - not at month-end when the damage was already done.
Automated Tagging Enforcement
AI agents enforced tagging policies across all accounts, retroactively attributing untagged spend to teams and services using ML inference.
Rightsizing via Automated PRs
Rightsizing recommendations were actioned automatically via pull requests to Terraform configs - engineers approved with one click.
Cross-Account Dashboard
A single dashboard surfaced spend trends, reserved instance coverage gaps, and savings opportunities across all 8 accounts.

The platform also used Nudgebee's Agentic Workflow Builder to create custom cost governance workflows - automatically notifying teams when spend exceeded budgets, and triggering reserved instance purchase recommendations when utilization patterns justified the commitment.

03 — Results

$2.4M recovered. No FinOps team hired.

34%
Cloud spend reduction in 90 days
$2.4M
Annualized waste recovered
28%
Reserved instance coverage improvement

The payments platform now runs a continuous FinOps process without dedicated FinOps headcount. Cost anomalies are caught in minutes. Rightsizing is automated. Every team has real-time visibility into their cloud spend - and the accountability that comes with it. The $2.4M in recovered waste was reinvested into engineering capacity and new product development.

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