Control your cloud costs - without sacrificing agility

The cloud delivers speed and scale; but at what cost?

You moved to the cloud for flexibility, innovation and performance. Your teams can build fast, deploy instantly, and scale on demand. But without the right controls in place, cloud spend can spiral. Many CIOs and CTOs are seeing unpredictable costs, wasted resources, and increasing scrutiny from finance.

Here’s the truth:
The cloud only delivers cost savings if you manage it differently from on-prem.

Leaving services running 24/7?
That’s like lighting your office all night, every night.

Paying full price, on-demand?
That’s like buying every train ticket at the last minute.

Holding onto unused environments?
That’s paying for hotel rooms long after you’ve checked out.

Ready to manage your cloud differently?

The old rules don't work in the cloud

Traditional governance models - lengthy approvals, capital investment gates, slow procurement - don’t align with today’s cloud-native operations. But that doesn’t mean you throw away governance altogether.

What changes is how you manage it.

To govern your cloud environment, you need:

• Full visibility across cloud usage
• Accurate allocation of spend to products and services
• Forecasting and budgeting tied to business objectives

TSL FinOps: 5 steps to sustainable cloud cost optimisation

Our structured programme helps CIOs and CTOs put modern governance in place without losing agility. It’s not a tool. It’s not a quick fix. It’s a proven transformation programme that embeds financial discipline into everyday engineering and product decisions. We use a tested 5-step model:

1. Alignment and Ownership

Workshops with your executives and leaders to align priorities and commit to change.

2. Baseline for Success

Define KPIs, governance, tooling, and a clear roadmap to impact.

3. Pilot and Iterate

Target high-return areas, generate savings, train teams and create internal champions.

4. Scale and Embed

Roll out FinOps practices across your business. Focus on benefits, not just cost.

5. Monitor and Sustain

Long-term support, continuous improvement, and managed tooling to lock in results.

The results?

• Financial savings you can reinvest
• Predictable cloud costs and reporting
• Embedded controls and accountability
• Stronger alignment between finance and technology

To learn how your organisation can get these results:

The real-world proof

"The huge growth in our data means we have to be highly efficient, just to keep functioning. We've saved a million, but there are still savings to be made" Katherine Stubbings - Head of the Office of CIO, Genomics England Limited.

World-leading research organisation Genomics England Limited (GEL) saved £1 million when they applied the TSL FinOps methodology to optimise their AWS cloud operations.

GEL uses AWS to support its genome sequencing work, which uses high performance cloud computing and a massive 100 petabytes of data.

Their cloud savings funded additional ground-breaking research projects.

Is the TSL FinOps approach right for YOU?

Our solution delivers the best results for organisations that:

• Spend between $5M and $20M a year on AWS
• Have adopted the cloud, but haven’t yet embedded mature FinOps practices
• Are growing fast, and want to ensure spend grows with control
• Need visibility, predictability and governance, without slowing teams down
• Want support, not just tooling — and internal alignment, not conflict

If that sounds like you, we can help with your cloud cost challenges.

Why TSL?

"We like and trust TSL. They have all the skills of a bid player but are much more agile and available." GEL

There are lots of cloud companies out there, but none have the same level of operational, financial and technical cloud expertise as we offer:

• Deep knowledge of AWS financial models
• Proven methodology used across leading organisations
• Trusted AWS partner with strong delivery track record
• Advisors, not auditors — we work alongside your teams to support lasting change

We understand what it takes to manage cloud at scale. And we know how to help you win the trust of your CFO while empowering your engineers to move fast.

Don't let cost become a blocker to innovation. Put yourself in the safe hands of TSL.