Cloud Cost Optimization and Resource Management for Non-Profit Organizations

The client faces challenges with managing and optimizing their AWS cloud expenses, leading to potentially high operational costs that hinder their mission-driven activities. They require proactive cost management strategies, including analysis of current expenditures and identification of unused or underutilized resources.

A mid-sized non-profit organization providing technology and resource access to global charitable initiatives, with multiple cloud-based applications supporting their operations and services.

• Achieve up to 50% reduction in monthly cloud computing costs through strategic savings plans.
• Implement continuous analysis and monitoring of cloud expenses to identify further optimization opportunities.
• Reduce the number of unused or redundant cloud resources and services.

• Automated analysis of current cloud expenses to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Recommendation engine for choosing optimal savings plans based on usage patterns.
• Dashboard for real-time expenditure monitoring and cost tracking.
• Ability to identify and automatically or manually decommission unused cloud resources.
• Reporting features to track savings and performance against cost reduction goals.

• Cloud provider cost management APIs for expense data retrieval
• Resource management APIs for resource tracking and decommissioning
• Monitoring and alerting services for real-time cost anomaly detection

• Scalability to support growth in resource usage and data volume
• High performance with real-time or near real-time expense monitoring
• Robust security to safeguard sensitive financial data and cloud credentials
• Reliability with minimal downtime for critical cost analysis functions

Implementing this cloud cost management system is expected to reduce monthly cloud expenses by up to 50%, enabling the client to reallocate savings toward mission-critical initiatives. Continuous analysis and resource optimization will further improve operational efficiency and financial sustainability.