FinOps Health Check, Part 2: From Findings to a 90-Day Savings Plan

14 Sep 2025 • 7 min read

In Part 1 we baseline KPIs, tagging, and anomalies. Here, we turn those insights into a prioritized 30/60/90 plan with quantified impact, confidence, owners, and guardrails—so savings actually land.

1) Shape findings into candidate actions

Pull from four streams: rightsizing/scheduling, storage lifecycle & tiers,purchase strategy (SP/RI/commit), and governance guardrails. Each action should have:

Impact (monthly \$ or %)
Confidence (High/Med/Low with why)
Owner (team + person)
Prereqs (tag coverage, dashboards, approvals)

2) Score & rank

We use a simple model: Score = Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort. Keep the math boring and the rationale explicit. The top 10 candidates usually explain 70–80% of near-term savings.

3) Build your 30/60/90

30 days: Low-risk rightsizing, schedules, obvious tiering, guardrail alerts.
60 days: Purchase strategy (SP/RI/commit) with staged coverage. Update budgets & KPIs.
90 days: Tagging standard rollout, anomaly process, dashboards for unit economics.

4) Prove it monthly

Publish a one-pager: actions shipped, realized \$, KPI deltas, and the next month’s plan. Executives want trajectory, not a one-off.

A lightweight template

Action: EBS gp2 -> gp3
Owner: Platform (Alex)
Impact: $22k/mo | Confidence: High | Effort: Low
Prereqs: None
Guardrail: Alert if gp3 price > gp2 by 15% on any account

Want a guided 2–3 week baseline with a ready-to-ship 90-day plan? Start with a FinOps Health Check or book a call.