Case Study: 40% AWS Cost Reduction at Scale

The Situation

A mission-critical platform with no cost governance

Platform Scale

Invest India's digital platforms serve millions of users, Fortune 500 companies, and government ministries. Infrastructure cannot fail.

The Challenge

Cloud infrastructure had grown rapidly without cost governance. No dedicated FinOps function — engineering team focused entirely on features and uptime.

Our Role

Geneki engineers embedded directly into the infrastructure team. Full read/write access granted after audit. Accountable for results.

What We Did

Timeline of Work

Week 1

Full infrastructure audit — mapped all AWS accounts, services, and spend patterns across every region

Week 2

Identified top 10 cost drivers: EC2 oversizing, unattached EBS volumes, S3 tier mismatches, idle snapshots

Week 3

Implemented Reserved Instances, rightsized 40+ EC2 instances, set up S3 lifecycle policies

Week 4

RDS optimisation, auto-scaling configuration, cleanup of orphaned resources and unused EIPs

Ongoing

Automated cost alerts, monthly reporting, quarterly re-optimisation as platform scales

Results

The Numbers

40%+

Reduction in monthly AWS spend

Rs Cr

Saved annually (insert real number)

Zero

Downtime across entire engagement

Infrastructure efficiency gain

“

The team understood our constraints as a government-adjacent platform and delivered results without disrupting a single service.

— Infrastructure Lead, Invest India

Visual Proof

Cost Trend: Before & After

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AWS Cost Explorer Chart Insert your anonymised AWS Cost Explorer screenshot here — showing the cost trend declining over 4 weeks post-implementation

How we cut cloud costs by 40%+ for a national-scale government platform