70%
Cost reduction
Annual AWS bill cut from $2.4M to $720K
92%
Right-sizing coverage
Instances matched to actual utilization
3x
Faster approvals
Cost-aware teams with clear allocation
The challenge
Meridian Pay's cloud spend was growing 40% year-over-year with no tagging, abandoned resources and oversized instances everywhere. Their finance team couldn't attribute costs to products or customers, and unit economics were deteriorating.
How we fixed it
We ran a full spend audit, implemented tagging and cost allocation, right-sized 400+ instances, moved stateless workloads to spot and Fargate, purchased savings plans for predictable baselines, and stood up a FinOps operating model with weekly reviews and anomaly alerts.
AWSFinOpsCost Optimization