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Financial Services
Fintech Startup — SOC2 + 40% Cost Reduction
Achieved SOC2 compliance while reducing AWS spend by 40% through FinOps practices and security automation.
Background
Series B fintech processing $2B annually. 80 engineers. AWS spend growing 20% month-over-month. SOC2 audit approaching with no formal controls.
The Challenge
- 1$180K/month AWS bill with no cost attribution
- 2Security scanning was manual and inconsistent
- 3No audit trail for infrastructure changes
- 4Production access was "everyone has admin"
Our Approach
- Implemented FinOps practice with real-time cost dashboards
- Right-sized EC2 instances and implemented spot for non-critical workloads
- Deployed OPA Gatekeeper for policy enforcement
- Built infrastructure audit logging with tamper-proof retention
Technologies Used
AWSEKSTerraformOPA GatekeeperKubecostCloudTrailVaultTrivy
Results
Monthly AWS spend
$180K$108K
SOC2 audit result
N/APassed first attempt
Production access
80 engineers8 on-call SREs
Security scan coverage
20%100%
“We were burning money and panicking about our audit. KubeMatrix solved both problems in 3 months.”
CTO
Series B Fintech
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