Costimizer - Cloud Optimization and Recommendations

Why Cloud Cost Control Matters in Financial Services?

Trading and fraud systems generate significant cloud usage. If the spend isn't mapped properly, margins fall and audit and approval cycles get longer.

Absence of cost ownership: shared accounts and undefined resource ownership slow down the audits and cause errors to occur.
Market spikes: sudden bills are caused by heavy traffic, daily processing runs, and data replays that increase resource consumption unexpectedly.
Older stacks and cumbersome migrations: older systems require additional processing and testing, which increases project costs.
Delayed approvals: procurement and risk reviews take a long time to fix, and waste continues. Excessive overprovisioning of SLAs: to prevent outages, teams maintain larger instances, which increases monthly expenditure.
Compliance controls introduce services: logging, encryption, and data residency requirements consume more resources; Costimizer alleviates this load without eliminating control.

How Our Platform Helps Financial Services Control Costs

Massive Savings

With Costimizer you get access to bulk discounts, visibility, and budget-friendly billing.

Complete Visibility

Youi get cost visibility across all your cloud resources, even if they are assigned to ledger codes, trading desks, and customer segments to query fast.

Inbuilt Compliance

Get best tagging recommendations, budgets and approvals to suit the procurement and audit requirements.

Less Cloud Waste & Manual Work

Automated rightsizing, scheduling, and storage lifecycle controls eliminate manual workload.

Live alerts on abnormal expenditure

Alert teams when a misconfigured job or runaway process begins to consume budget.

Cloud Cost Toolkit Built for Financial Teams

1. Consolidated Billing & Discounts

Combine billing across legal entities and business units to unlock pooled discounts.
Apply enterprise commitment models across providers without changing apps.
Maintain visibility per business unit while consolidating vendor contracts.

2. Tagging & Cost Allocation

Auto-tag resources and spend to ledger codes, product IDs, and trading desks.
Solve untagged and shared-resource problems.
Prepare cost reports that are audit-ready and are associated with fiscal controls.

3. Governance & FinOps Workflows

Define approvals on high-cost deployments and cross-check procurement limits.
Standardize policy checks and internal financial regulations.
Enhance the integration of finance, risk and engineering.

4. Automated Resource Management

Detect idle compute, unattached volumes, and stale snapshots
Plan non-production time and implement storage life cycle policies.
Suggest instance types and sizes that meet SLAs at reduced cost.

5. Predictive Analytics & Anomaly Detection

Produce spend projections were made for monthly and annual budgets.
Early detect anomalous spend patterns such as algorithmic or replay-based spikes.
Minimise the possibility of unexpected bills at the end of the month.

6. Security & Compliance Reporting

Create PCI, SOC and regional data requirements reports automatically.
Indicate data residency or storage in non-approved areas.
Combine with SIEM and GRC tools to have a single view of operations.

7. Enterprise & Banking Integrations

Connect with ERP, billing systems, core banking, and ticketing platforms.
Provide one perspective on cloud consumption and expenditure across subsidiaries and product lines.

How Financial Teams Used to Manage Cloud Spend vs How They Do It Now

❌ The Old Way	✅Costimizer Way
Paying unpredictable retail cloud prices	Gaining pooled discounts and monthly predictable billing
Shared accounts with zero accountability	Cost tracking by business unit, trading desk, and ledger code
Delayed reactions to cost spikes shown only in month-end invoices	Real-time alerts about runaway spend and misconfigurations
Budgets frequently overshoot due to unexpected processing peaks	Forecasting and pre-approved scaling aligned to annual budgets
Long audit reconciliations because costs cannot be tied to business lines	Audit-ready allocation to fiscal codes, products and customer segments
Orphaned VMs, unused volumes, and old snapshots quietly consuming funds	Automated cleanup and scheduled shutdowns that respect SLAs and working hours

Do's & Don'ts for Financial Services

✅ Dos	❌ Don'ts
Centralize cloud billing where feasible to gain pooled discounts.	Don’t let individual teams negotiate separate cloud contracts without oversight.
Establish budget constraints and contractor and vendor access controls.	Don’t rely solely on external vendors to manage cost.
Implement tagging based on ledger codes and product identifiers.	Don’t ignore untagged resources; they complicate audits.
Establish approval processes that align with procurement thresholds	Don’t wait for quarterly audits to identify overspend.
Monthly review of cloud expenses with the finance and risk departments.	Don’t allow deployments in regions that violate residency rules.

Start With Costimizer Today

Your cloud cost optimization journey shouldn't wait anymore, there already many things on hold. Don't let your cloud budget hold you back even more.

Step 01: Secure read-only setup

Connect accounts without downtime.

Step 02: Run a controlled pilot

Test on a single product line or non-critical workload to measure impact.

Step 03: Enable consolidated billing

Unlock discounts and central visibility.

Step 04: Train teams

Provide dashboards and role-based controls for finance, risk, and engineering.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this work with smaller business units or regional teams?

Yes. Smaller units tend to experience the most significant relative returns due to lower effective rates resulting from pooled purchasing power.

What is the benefit of this Costimizer to procurement and audit processes?

The platform creates audit records, facilitates approval processes, and produces reports that correspond to procurement records.

Will this establish vendor lock-in?

No. Costimizer compares providers and displays multi-cloud options, making decisions transparent.

What is the price of Costimizer?

We are providing you with a free trial account, where you will be able to see at atleast 10% savings.

When will we see cost savings?

The waste reductions are usually realised in a few days; the discount capture will be realised in the following billing period; and the forecast accuracy will improve in a month or two.