Spotad Keen on Spot Instances, but Environments Don’t Seem Immediately Compatible Like any forward-thinking business, Spotad always kept one eye on their rising EC2 costs. Naturally, as the company went from success to success, these costs began to increase and Tal Maizels, CTO at Spotad, was determined to find a way to manage these rising […]

Samsung SDS applied Spot’s technology to its cloud management platform, GOV (Global One View) to offer its customers unprecedented savings of up to 90% off AWS EC2 costs and 84% off of Azure VM costs. This is accomplished by tapping cloud excess compute capacity, e.g spot instances, without compromising on high-availability. Providing their customers with […]

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 […]