Solution scenario
Cost visibility and FinOps controls
A single cloud invoice with no attribution, growing faster than usage, and no team able to see their own contribution.
This is an illustrative reference design describing how Protogenies approaches this class of problem. It is not a named client engagement, and it contains no performance claims.
Challenge
What has to be solved
Optimization stalls because nobody owns spend and nobody can measure the effect of a change.
Technical constraints
- Tagging must not break existing automation
- Optimization cannot reduce headroom for peak trading
- Finance and engineering need the same numbers
Approach
A tagging and allocation standard enforced in infrastructure code, showback dashboards per team and product, and an optimization backlog prioritized by recurring spend against effort.
Implementation
- 01Tagging standard with enforcement in modules and policy
- 02Allocation model covering shared and untaggable costs
- 03Team-level dashboards and anomaly alerting
- 04Rightsizing and idle-resource analysis
- 05Commitment analysis for stable baseline workloads
Technology stack
AWS Cost ExplorerAthenaGrafanaTerraform
Expected qualitative outcomes
- Spend attributable to teams and products
- Optimization reviewed on a routine cadence rather than in a crisis
- Anomalies surfaced when they happen, not at invoice time
- Commitment decisions made from usage data
Things to weigh up
- Shared platform costs need an allocation rule agreed up front
- Savings depend on the estate; the work is finding and prioritizing them, not a fixed percentage
Talk to the engineers who would do the work
Bring your current architecture, constraints and the problem you are trying to solve. We will tell you what we would change first, what it depends on, and where we would start.