Case Study: UK Government Department achieves cloud cost savings with Version 1 FinOps implementation

UK Government Department saves over £5000 per month with Version 1

A UK Government department faced urgent challenges managing its cloud infrastructure following the exit of its third-party hosting provider. The absence of oversight on its AWS systems led to cost escalation and difficulties in migrating workloads from legacy accounts. Version 1 was engaged to implement a solution.

Version 1 scaled its team and adopted a systematic approach to workload migration and modernisation. By implementing FinOps best practices, the vendor achieved significant monthly cost savings, including over £5,000 from removing a redundant tech stack and £16,000 from eliminating unnecessary accounts. The project realised substantial savings across multiple areas while enhancing security and service availability.