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Case study · NBFC

A compliant cloud re-architecture that cut cost 34% with zero downtime

A non-banking financial company faced an RBI data-localisation deadline and a runaway cloud bill. We re-architected onto a governed, India-resident cloud — live in 28 days.

34%
infrastructure cost cut
28 days
to full compliance
0
minutes downtime
Figures illustrative of typical engagements.

The challenge

The NBFC had lifted-and-shifted to cloud years earlier and inherited the worst of both worlds: a bill growing faster than the business, fragile deployments, and a looming RBI data-residency deadline it was not positioned to meet.

Our diagnosis

A cloud-readiness assessment mapped every workload, its utilisation and its cost. A third of spend was idle or over-provisioned, security baselines were inconsistent, and nothing was data-resident.

~34% of spend on idle or over-provisioned resources
No FinOps visibility or cost ownership
Workloads not aligned to data-localisation rules

The implementation

1
Inventory & target

Mapped workloads and designed a compliant, data-resident landing zone.

2
Right-size & reclaim

Removed waste and switched on FinOps guardrails before migrating.

3
Phased, reversible cutover

Migrated in waves with parallel-run and rollback — zero lending downtime.

4
Govern continuously

Locked in security baselines and continuous cost governance.

The outcome

The NBFC met its RBI deadline with 28 days to spare, cut infrastructure cost 34%, and kept lending operations running throughout. Cloud spend is now attributed to owners and governed continuously.

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34%
cost reduction
28d
to compliant
0
downtime
100%
data-resident
Figures illustrative of typical engagements.
Lessons learned

What made it work

Optimise before you migrate

Reclaiming waste first made the whole move cheaper and faster.

Reversible by design

Phased cutovers with rollback removed the downtime risk entirely.

FinOps is forever

Continuous governance keeps the savings from eroding.

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