Case Study: a central government department improves cloud cost visibility and tag compliance with Version 1

Central Government Department boosts tag compliance from 17% with Version 1

The Central Government Department faced rising cloud costs estimated at £1.2-1.4 million monthly after a large-scale migration to AWS. With a pre-existing lack of a defined tagging policy, their tag compliance was only around 17%, severely limiting cost visibility and control. Version 1 was engaged to implement a FinOps retrospective tagging solution to improve compliance across millions of resources without disrupting production services.

Version 1 developed and integrated a powerful retrospective tagging solution into the client's GitLab compliance framework, enforcing it across 10,000+ Terraform repositories. This solution provided accurate compliance reporting and empowered developers to fix issues. The result was a dramatic increase in tag compliance, giving the FinOps team complete data for true cost insight, significantly decreasing cloud costs, and improving visibility, accountability, and traceability across the entire AWS estate.