Ensuring Efficiency for Mission Critical DRM Before VUALTO launched, the team were focused on making sure that their DRM solution would be scalable, reliable and cost-efficient. One tempting method of greatly improving cost-efficiency was spot instances, with prices as much as 90% lower than on-demand EC2. But there were a few issues: VUALTO could not […]

Leveraging spot in Dev, but what about Production? Demandbase, as a fast-growing company with many new features and product releases, always had an eye on their costs. “Our team knew that cloud costs could quickly get out of hand,” said Josh Schlanger, VP of DevOps at Demandbase. As part of their cost optimization efforts, Schlanger and […]

Demands of Cloud Migration & Growth Don’t Leave Time For Cost Optimization The News UK team, headed by Technical Integration Manager Nikhil Gupta, was always focused on maintaining and growing the company, servicing its tens of millions of daily readers being a higher priority for the team than optimizing costs. The team first improved analysis […]

Fast growth creates difficult architectural challenges As a growing e-commerce company facing nearly 5M visitors every month, the technical team faced many architectural challenges. Growing infrastructural systems is never easy, but when you grow as fast as Lenskart has, the challenges tend to pile up faster than estimated. For any e-commerce company, lowering COGS (cost […]

Powerlinks journey to reduce costs Powerlinks runs over 1000 instances and reducing cloud costs became a major concern. “Our costs were increasing dramatically, so we needed to find way to reduce them quickly” said Ollie Finn, CTO at PowerLinks. Powerlinks began to explore various ways to reduce costs without making any architectural changes. As heavy […]

Saving Rungway 80% of their EC2 costs Rungway started as a small startup, that was in a need of its own infrastructure. Rungway searched for the best value for their money and like any other startup, they couldn’t afford to build their own Data Center. They thought the best available solution was running their workload […]

The challenge: Reducing cloud compute costs At first, Haptik mostly ran using AWS on-demand instances, alongside a small set of reserved instances. Their cloud costs quickly rose and reducing costs became a major focus as a way to reduce cost-of-goods-sold (COGS). When first contemplating the need to reduce cloud computing costs, reserved instances were considered […]

The challenge – scaling the monitoring system cost-effectively In order to make sure that the Capriza platform is running perfectly from end to end, Capriza’s DevOps & Automation teams built a monitoring system that runs many test suites and monitors the network connectivity between its cloud platform and its customers on premises internal network and […]

Ticketmaster Accelerates AWS Adoption While Significantly Reducing Costs With Spot Ticketmaster is a leading ticket sales and distribution company located in California that sells millions of tickets for a wide variety of events all around the world. In 2017, they publicly announced their migration to Amazon Web Services to be able to quickly scale their […]

Overview The healthcare industry has become more complex in recent years. As many organizations chase moving targets for data privacy and security best practices, they are also shifting to the cloud. HealthTech Solutions addresses these challenges by providing cloud-based solutions to clinics, hospitals, and federal contracts of all sizes. For HealthTech Solutions, the cloud is […]