AWS cost optimization: about US$500 saved per month
Reducing cloud waste and automating scaling for a B2B SaaS company in Indonesia running production workloads on AWS.
The challenge
A small engineering team managed a fairly large AWS footprint without adequate cost visibility. Experiment and R&D resources piled up, while EC2 scaling was still done by hand. This created wasted spend as well as a risk of downtime when traffic spiked outside working hours.
What we did
- Audited AWS costs to identify idle and oversized resources.
- Introduced resource tagging to clarify ownership and accountability.
- Used Savings Plans and Reserved Instances for predictable workloads, and Spot Instances for compute efficiency.
- Scheduled development servers to shut down outside working hours.
- Set up a recurring cost analysis report for resources that need review.
- Designed an Auto Scaling Group with dynamic scaling policies so EC2 provisioning is no longer manual.
Results
Technology
Omni Capital is a pseudonym. The company name and client identity are withheld to protect confidentiality. Results come from a real engagement and may differ depending on the starting state of the infrastructure, the scope of work, and each organization's usage patterns.
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