Introduction
The modern banking sector faces growing pressure to improve operational agility, reduce IT costs, and deliver a seamless digital customer experience. With cloud adoption accelerating across financial services, IT departments must manage increasingly complex infrastructures, diverse databases, and rising costs. Enteros, a leading AIOps and observability platform, plays a critical role in supporting banks by integrating Cloud FinOps, RevOps, and database performance optimization strategies into one unified ecosystem.
This blog explores how Enteros empowers banks to drive cost-effective IT operations through automated performance monitoring, cost estimation, and resource optimization using advanced AIOps and observability technologies. We’ll examine how the platform contributes to better financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance in a heavily regulated sector, all while enabling digital transformation.
The Complexity of Cloud FinOps in Banking
Banks increasingly rely on cloud-native infrastructures to drive innovation and flexibility. However, cloud services introduce challenges such as cost sprawl, underutilized resources, and hidden expenses.
Cloud FinOps (Cloud Financial Operations) helps organizations:
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Manage cloud spending efficiently.
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Allocate costs to the right business units.
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Forecast future usage and budgets.
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Identify waste in cloud resources.
Banks require strong Cloud FinOps capabilities to meet governance and auditing requirements while staying cost-efficient and competitive.
Enteros: Unifying AIOps, RevOps, and Observability
Enteros is designed to address the most complex operational issues in enterprise IT. For banks, Enteros delivers value through its three foundational pillars:
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AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations)
Enteros leverages machine learning to detect anomalies, predict outages, and suggest performance improvements. This proactive approach reduces downtime, improves system resilience, and eliminates the need for constant human oversight. -
RevOps (Revenue Operations)
In banking, revenue streams are directly tied to application uptime, speed, and service availability. Enteros enhances RevOps efficiency by ensuring all systems supporting revenue generation (like digital banking apps, CRM tools, and transaction platforms) perform at optimal levels. -
Observability Platform
Observability goes beyond simple monitoring by providing insights into the internal states of systems through metrics, logs, traces, and events. Enteros consolidates these inputs, giving banking IT leaders a clear picture of what’s happening across their infrastructure.
Key Capabilities of Enteros in the Banking Sector
1. Cloud Cost Estimation and Allocation
Banks use Enteros to analyze past cloud usage patterns and predict future costs. The platform maps cloud spend to services and departments using advanced tagging and resource grouping features, which is essential for accurate budgeting.
Benefits include:
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Reduced overspending on reserved instances or idle services.
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Transparent cost attribution to business units (e.g., commercial banking, retail banking).
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Improved forecast accuracy for annual IT budgeting cycles.
2. Real-Time Database Performance Tracking
Banks depend on high-performance databases for core services such as payment processing, fraud detection, and account management. Enteros UpBeat continuously monitors hundreds of database types (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB) and provides:
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Real-time performance insights.
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Early detection of slow queries or bottlenecks.
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Recommendations for tuning or scaling databases.
This leads to fewer outages, better customer experience, and improved SLA compliance.
3. Automated Root Cause Analysis
When systems fail or performance drops, time is critical. Enteros uses AI to perform root cause analysis across infrastructure layers—from database to application to cloud service. This automation reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR), which is especially critical in financial systems where downtime can lead to compliance issues or customer churn.
4. Unified Visibility Across Tools
Enteros integrates with AWS, Azure, GCP, and leading CI/CD pipelines. In banking environments with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, this capability ensures unified visibility and control over distributed systems.
Enteros’ observability dashboard consolidates:
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Infrastructure health
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Application metrics
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Cloud billing insights
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DevOps and deployment data
This holistic view enables better decision-making across IT, finance, and compliance teams.
5. Regulatory Compliance and Audit Support
Financial institutions must adhere to strict regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, SOX, and PCI DSS. Enteros supports auditability through data lineage tracking, anomaly detection, and activity logging—ensuring that systems are not only efficient but also compliant.
Real-World Use Case: A Large Bank Streamlines Cloud Spending
A major retail bank faced rapidly increasing AWS costs due to overprovisioned resources and lack of visibility across its cloud infrastructure. By deploying Enteros, the bank:
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Identified underutilized EC2 instances and unused RDS databases.
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Implemented automated scaling policies based on Enteros recommendations.
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Introduced resource grouping by department for better cost accountability.
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Improved forecasting accuracy using AI-based predictions from Enteros.
Within six months, the bank reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 28% while improving application performance and system availability.
Impact on RevOps and Financial Outcomes
RevOps success in banking is directly influenced by the reliability of customer-facing systems. Enteros supports this by:
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Ensuring database performance at scale.
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Detecting issues before customers are affected.
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Reducing lost revenue due to downtime or degraded services.
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Allowing more agile responses to shifting customer demands and seasonal trends.
With Enteros, IT is no longer a cost center—it’s a value driver that enables financial innovation.
The Role of Enteros in Future Banking IT Strategy
Banks looking to remain competitive must embrace agile, data-driven operations. Enteros enables this by combining FinOps, AIOps, and observability into a platform that scales across enterprise banking environments.
Emerging capabilities under development include:
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Generative AI-based cost forecasting
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Predictive modeling of infrastructure failures
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Deep-learning driven performance optimization
By adopting Enteros, banks prepare themselves not only for current demands but also for the future of digital finance.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What is Enteros, and how is it used in banking?
Enteros is an AIOps and observability platform that helps banks monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud and database performance. It aids in cost estimation, root cause analysis, and system observability to support better financial operations.
2. How does Enteros support Cloud FinOps in banking?
Enteros enables cost allocation, resource grouping, usage forecasting, and waste reduction in cloud services, helping banks manage and optimize cloud budgets effectively.
3. What databases does Enteros support?
Enteros supports a wide range of relational and NoSQL databases, including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, and more.
4. Can Enteros improve RevOps efficiency in financial institutions?
Yes. By ensuring application uptime, reducing downtime, and enhancing system performance, Enteros helps RevOps teams deliver more reliable services and drive consistent revenue streams.
5. Is Enteros compliant with banking regulatory standards?
Enteros helps banks maintain compliance by providing detailed logging, audit trails, data lineage, and secure infrastructure monitoring.
6. How does Enteros integrate with AWS?
Enteros connects directly to AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer, providing deep insights into cloud usage, performance, and costs.
7. What is the difference between monitoring and observability in Enteros?
Monitoring checks if systems are working; observability explains why they aren’t. Enteros combines both to provide actionable insights into IT operations.
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