Nonprofit
Cut Nonprofit Cloud Bill 75% — Saved $180K/Year
$180K
Annual Savings
75%
Cost Reduction
4→1
Accounts
3
New Programs
FinOps for Nonprofit
Metric
Before
After
Annual Cloud
$240,000
$60,000 -75%
AWS Accounts
4 (messy)
1 (organized) Consolidated
Batch Jobs
EC2 24/7
Lambda -$4K/mo
Programs Funded
Budget cut
3 new programs $180K saved
Nonprofit FinOps Optimization — $180K/Year Redirected to Programs
The Challenge
Global NGO spending $240K/year across 4 AWS accounts with massive waste. Board demanded 50% reduction or migration off cloud entirely.
$240K/year across 4 poorly organized AWS accounts
No cost allocation tags — impossible to attribute spend
Running 24/7 EC2 for workloads that run 8 hours/day
No nonprofit discount program applied
Our Solution
Consolidated 4 accounts into AWS Organizations, applied nonprofit credits, rightsized everything, and migrated batch workloads to Lambda.
Consolidated 4 AWS accounts into Organizations with SCPs
Applied for and received AWS nonprofit credits ($20K/year)
Migrated batch workloads from EC2 to Lambda (saved $4K/month)
Rightsized remaining instances, implemented scheduling for dev envs
Set up cost allocation tags and monthly budget reports for board
Project Timeline
Week 1
Account consolidation, cost audit across all 4 accounts
Week 2
Nonprofit credits application, instance rightsizing
Week 3
Lambda migration for batch workloads, dev env scheduling
Week 4
Cost allocation tags, board reporting dashboard
ED
"CloudLink saved us $180K a year. That's 3 field programs we can now fund."
Executive Director
Global NGO
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