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AMA initiatives Internal Transformation
Created by Mohammad Husain
Created on May 18, 2021

Humongous Cost Saving

Individual

Who are the team members? (1 to maximum 6 members) mohammad.husain@fisglobal.com
How did you form your team? Individual
Would you like assistance in identifying additional team members? No
What problem are you solving?

We have created on DEV-LAB environment for client testing in Azure Cloud, which was costing around $944 daily, the client has halted testing till next quarter,.

I have been asked for solution how we can save amount if client is not using this environment, deleting environment wasn't a feasible option as it took almost 15 days to 1 month to configure entire environment which consist of Database servers , Application servers and Web servers along with High Availability setup.

Describe your idea in 1 sentence? What is your elevator pitch? Reconfiguring azure environment by proper usage analysis.
Describe the idea

This Idea is all about how we can properly analysis and understand each resources on Azure Cloud environment before we actually configure it.

I have generated different reports and come up with exact resources which has the highest billing.

Those are cost for ultra disk which was more than 90% of over all cost and used in only two servers. Storage in Azure billed constantly even if they are not in use.

I have come up with solution to replace Ultra-Disk with Premium SSD which reduce storage charges from $843 to $29 per day, also shut down environment which helped us to reduced per day billing from $944 to $30.15.

Also did analysis the usages of disk and found we never utilized more IOPS or Through Put for which we have configured Ultra-disk, so in future we can use the new configuration without impacting client testing, if clients insist then we can replace current Premium SSD with Ultra-Disk in less than 3 hours.

When I fetched report for 54 days (after we implemented change Mar 5 2021), we already saved more than $50,000

This approach is saving around $28,000 Monthly or $3,36,000 Yearly


Please find attached billing details to justify saving numbers.

This exercise can be done across FIS to reconfigure environment properly to save a huge operational/Infrastructure cost.

How do you classify your idea? Is it.. New solution or service
What is the primary product or is there cross business applicability? Cross Business
How will you implement the idea and what support/investment will you need? This is already implemented for Investran, it required only required access to fetch billing information from Azure Portal
Do you think your idea can be developed and launched in 6 months? Yes
Do you have a working PoC? Yes
Do you have a business plan? Yes
How does your idea address the AMA initiative selected above? This exercise can be done across FIS to reconfigure environment properly to save a huge operational/Infrastructure cost.
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