How Svatantra Microfin sustained 40% cost savings with ongoing managed AWS operations
Svatantra Microfin is an RBI-licensed microfinance NBFC serving customers across a growing network of rural branches in India. After moving its core applications from legacy infrastructure to AWS, the next challenge was keeping the environment secure, reliable, and cost-efficient as usage evolved. Flentas now operates Svatantra's AWS environment as a fully managed service, combining 24/7 monitoring, automated patching, security operations, and continuous FinOps across segregated UAT and production environments.
- Svatantra Microfin
- RBI-licensed microfinance NBFC
- Segregated UAT & production environments
- Ongoing managed AWS operations
- Cost savings sustained through ongoing FinOps
- ~40%
- Managed monitoring and incident response
- 24/7
- Security, patching, and cost optimization
- Continuous
Migration was only the beginning
Moving to AWS solved Svatantra's infrastructure scalability challenges, but keeping the environment secure, reliable, and cost-efficient required a consistent operating model.
Manual maintenance
Patching and infrastructure maintenance relied heavily on manual effort, increasing operational overhead and risk.
Limited operational visibility
Without centralized monitoring and alerting, identifying infrastructure and application issues proactively was difficult.
Security needed to stay maintained
Closing security gaps during migration was not enough; controls needed to be continuously monitored and maintained.
Cloud costs needed ongoing management
As workloads changed, Svatantra needed continuous optimization rather than a one-time cost reduction exercise.
A fully managed AWS environment built for continuous optimization
Flentas took over the ongoing operation of Svatantra's AWS environment, combining infrastructure management, security, monitoring, and FinOps into a continuous managed-services model.
Maintained segregated VPCs for UAT and production, with Application and Network Load Balancers supporting controlled application traffic.
Ran continuous security operations, including AWS WAF with geo restrictions and automated patching through AWS Systems Manager.
Centralized audit logging through AWS CloudTrail and automated EC2 scheduling with Amazon EventBridge to reduce unnecessary compute usage.
Delivered 24/7 monitoring and alerting through Amazon CloudWatch and SNS, while continuously optimizing compute costs through AWS Savings Plans.
Lower costs, stronger security, and reliable operations
~40% cost savings sustained
Through ongoing FinOps, automated scheduling, and AWS Savings Plans.
24/7 managed operations
Providing continuous monitoring, alerting, and operational support.
Critical security gaps closed and maintained
Including S3 exposure and missing WAF protection.
Reduced operational overhead
With automated patching, scheduling, monitoring, and routine infrastructure management.
Greater operational visibility
Through centralized monitoring, logging, and alerting across the environment.
A more consistent operating model
Enabling Svatantra's teams to focus on business and product priorities rather than day-to-day cloud administration.
Built on a continuously managed AWS stack
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon VPC
- Application & Network Load Balancers
- Amazon S3
- AWS WAF
- AWS Systems Manager
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon EventBridge
- AWS Savings Plans
- Amazon CloudWatch & SNS
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