The Challenge A Petabyte customer faced a significant challenge to swiftly reduce operational costs. One focal aspect of their optimization target was the IT expenditure, the largest cost of which was in hosting their datacenter. Their target was to reduce infrastructure costs by at least 45%. For the customer, Petabyte had run an SAP/ECC FMS […]

How can you prevent the rate of Infrastructure Cost Growth from overtaking the rate of Company Growth? Rapid growth is a great thing for any company. With companies who have heavy AWS usage, the positivity of this growth comes with one common caveat: with increased growth comes increased AWS infrastructure costs. For GumGum, the company’s […]

VTEX Enjoyed Large Reserved Instance Investment, but Pursued Better Utilization and more Cost-Efficient Scaling VTEX was always conscious of cost-efficiency, and as such invested heavily in reserved instances (RIs) to ensure consistent and long-lasting capacity at a reduced price. But acquiring a large amount of RIs wasn’t the end of their cost-efficiency journey. Two things […]

Magnetic’s EC2 Spot Implementation Restricted by Time Consuming Processes and Hadoop Complexities   “Spot isn’t just a vendor to us, they’re a partner we know we can work with.” – James Marcus, VP of Technical Operations Posted on Magnetic.com, Magnetic sought to migrate 90% of workloads to EC2 Spot within a year, while 30% of […]

Demand Spikes Cause Large Cost Increases for Wonderbly During Holiday Season Due to the nature of their business, the Wonderbly infrastructure scales a large amount during the build up to the holiday season. With compute-heavy rendering processes scaling up intensely over the course of a short period of time, Wonderbly were looking for a solution […]

HYPR’s Challenge: Fast Phase Growth and AWS Elastic Beanstalk Management HYPR runs a large scale of Elastic Beanstalk environments based on on-demand instances. As a result of a fast phase growth, they needed to scale up their instances at once. They had less than one month to scale, activate and perform ongoing health checks and […]

Developer Freedom Leads to Increased Agility but also Increased Cost Developer freedom is important to On the dot. The On the dot team have the ability to deploy and scale fast, yet this enhanced agility for the dev team comes with a trade-off: increasingly high costs. Don Tran, Head of Platform Services at On the […]

Reserved Instances Prove too Inflexible and Spot Proves too Difficult to Manage For EyeEm, reserved instances were the first option explored when trying to reduce cloud compute costs. Reserved instances do offer reductions in cost compared to on-demand, yet for EyeEm they were also too limiting: buying a large number of instances in advanced would […]

For the last 23 years, Walla!News has been running their workloads on-premise, managing the server hardware themselves. But with over 1.5 million active mailboxes, real-time broadcasts, and traffic that constantly scales, Asi, Walla!News’s CTO, decided that moving to the public cloud was inevitable. “We are a publisher in a dynamic and competitive environment which require […]

Using Elastigroup as an efficient way to scale EC2 cost-effectively N26 has been working with Spot for the last 2 years and found Elastigroup to be a natural fit. N26 was determined to quickly scale their EC2 infrastructure in a cost-effective manner. With Elastigroup by Spot they were able to achieve those cost-efficiencies to the […]