CASE 84 · APEX · 2023
Three AWS organisations merged, one finance report.
A private equity acquisition brought together three AWS organisations from three distinct portfolio companies. Each had its own payer account, its own EDP commitment, and its own tagging conventions. We consolidated them under a single payer while preserving each company’s budget identity.
Private equity portfolio company
LANDING ZONE
2023
RESULTS
What changed, by the numbers.
EDP COMMITMENT BLENDED
$2.8M
EFFECTIVE DISCOUNT
+4 PTS
FINANCE REPORTS
3 → 1
MIGRATION TIME
14w
HOW IT WENT
The deal closed on a Friday. Finance asked for "one bill" by the end of the quarter. The three CTOs each had opinions about which payer account to keep. The honest answer was "none of them — we’re creating a fourth and moving everyone to it."
AWS account movement (the API-level org-to-org migration) handled the mechanics. The bigger work was preserving the budget identities — each portfolio company had a P&L line. Cost Categories rolled the consolidated CUR back into per-company P&L attribution, and Athena queries surfaced the breakdowns.
The blended EDP commitment of $2.8M moved the consolidated org into the next discount tier — a four-point effective rate improvement nobody had been planning for. Finance got one bill with three rollups. The CTOs stopped negotiating about payer accounts.
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