Objectives
The AWS consumption for IMPLAN team had been increasing over the years resulting in increasing costs. IMPLAN was looking for a cost optimization solution that could also be used continuously to keep their rising AWS bills in check.
26% reduction in monthly AWS costs
Cost-efficient setup with better visibility of AWS spend
About the Customer
IMPLAN is the leading provider of economic impact data and analytical software. For over 40 years, the company has helped analysts discover, explore, and analyze economic activities and their impact through economic insight and data technology.
The Solution
Our AWS FinOps solution, CloudKeeper,offered guaranteed savings on all EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute), RDS (Relational Database Service) and RedShift (Amazon’s Data Warehouse Service) instances for Implan.
Key solution highlights achieved by TO THE NEW for Implan by using AWS FinOps were:
Key solution highlights achieved by TO THE NEW for Implan by using AWS FinOps were:
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Identified and highlighted unused and underutilized resources like legacy backups, unused servers, disks, load balancers etc. which were resulting in extra cost -
Defined a tagging strategy to achieve visibility around breakup of AWS cost across different applications and environments (DEV, UAT & Production) -
Deployed architectural changes to achieve a cost optimized setup without compromising the stability and scalability of the platform -
Mapped appropriate server configuration for each application as per the actual resource utilization and enabled data compression to reduce data transfer cost
