Retail · OCI Cost Optimization

A retailer cut OCI spend 42% in 90 days without touching a single workload.

A retailer was already on OCI but the bill kept climbing. We ran a FinOps optimisation pass and removed 42% of monthly spend in 90 days, paid only on the savings we verified.

Retail store interior representing a retail company
42%
OCI spend reduction
90
days to result
0
workloads disrupted
100%
of savings verified before fee
The situation

Where they started.

The retailer had migrated to OCI quickly to meet a deadline and never came back to tidy up. Environments were over provisioned, test and dev ran around the clock, storage tiers were wrong, and nobody owned the bill. Spend was growing faster than the business, and finance had started asking hard questions.

They wanted the cost down without risking availability, and they wanted proof that any saving was real before they paid for the work.

What we did

The work.

  • Built a full picture of the estate and tagged spend to owners and workloads.
  • Right sized over provisioned compute against measured load.
  • Scheduled test and dev to shut down outside business hours.
  • Moved cold data to the correct storage tier and cleared orphaned resources.
  • Modelled Universal Credits commitment against real usage.
  • Verified every saving against the bill before billing a fee on it.
The architecture

The OCI architecture used.

Nothing about the workloads changed. The savings came from removing waste, fixing storage tiers, and matching commitment to real demand.

LeverWhat we didEffect
Compute right sizingMatched shapes to measured loadRemoved standing over provision
SchedulingShut down non production off hoursCut idle compute spend sharply
Storage tieringMoved cold data to the right tierLowered storage cost with no access change
CommitmentModelled Universal Credits to usageAligned spend to real demand
No workload moved, no availability was risked, and the bill came down by more than 40%. The fee came only out of savings we could prove.
Related

Where this connects.

Service

OCI Cost Optimization

Our FinOps work, paid only on verified savings.

See optimization
Solution

Cost Governance

Keeping spend under control after the optimisation pass.

See cost governance
Workload

Lift & Shift

The kind of fast move that often leaves savings on the table.

See lift and shift

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