Case Study: UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) achieves zero running costs and streamlined cloud access to accelerate digital healthcare with VMware Tanzu

UKHSA Streamlines Access to Cloud to Accelerate Digital Healthcare

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) built a multi-cloud platform on AWS and Azure in under two months to run testing, contact tracing and the national vaccination program, then expanded that platform into “UKHSA Cloud” to provide cloud services to NHS agencies. As demand and complexity grew, the agency needed to control unpredictable cloud spend, simplify access for other healthcare organizations, and enforce security and governance across a highly regulated environment.

By deploying VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth with VMware Professional Services and a tailored FinOps framework, UKHSA optimized resource use across 90+ workloads, 200 AWS accounts and 25,000 concurrent users (25 million logins peak). The solution uncovered USD $120,000 in first‑month savings, identified $4,500 in zombie assets, auto-tagged ~1,500 untagged assets, and achieved zero running costs within six months—enabling chargeback, faster NHS access to cloud services and a Cloud Center of Excellence for ongoing governance.

UKHSA

Jonny da Silva

Head of DevOps and Cloud Lead