The Challenge When organizations are running their workloads on the cloud, they will begin to realize that controlling costs is crucial as workloads and infrastructure scale. While scaling is important, it does add a few complexities such as scheduling workloads across compute resources properly and downscaling to use only the resources that you need. These […]

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 […]

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 […]

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AWS Migration was time-consuming and potentially expensive In early 2017, SimilarWeb was faced with the task of migrating a massive on-prem system onto the cloud. Migrations are never going to be easy, but with many data-heavy workloads and various product needs to account for, the complexity of this task was overwhelming. It also can be […]

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 […]

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 […]