Objectives
The Perkbox website traffic was growing at the rate of 15% month-on-month. Given a variety of
products and services offered by Perkbox, the company experiences seasonal spike and
needed the flexibility for its AWS infrastructure to:
products and services offered by Perkbox, the company experiences seasonal spike and
needed the flexibility for its AWS infrastructure to:
- Change server type as per application
- Scale the servers up or down as needed
- Have a better visibility around usage & cost
- Reduce cost without losing infrastructure flexibility
Solution
CloudKeeper implemented its AWS FinOps solution , CloudKeeper which offers guaranteed savings without any volume commitment by Perkbox. Discounted rates for EC2 instances (servers), CloudFront (Amazon’s CDN offering) and Business Support subscription were provided through CloudKeeper implementation while maintaining infrastructure flexibility.
CloudKeeper conducted a comprehensive audit of the company’s AWS accounts and implemented the below to reduce the AWS cost.
CloudKeeper conducted a comprehensive audit of the company’s AWS accounts and implemented the below to reduce the AWS cost.
Highlights
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30% AWS cost reduction -
Cloud Financial Management enabled proper utilization of infrastructure
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Migration of DynamoDB to pay-per-use modelPerkbox was paying 4X of the actual cost due to provisioned and utilized capacity on DynamoDB. Moving to a pay-per-use model reduced the cost for DynamoDB by 75%. -
Lifecycle policyReduced cost storage by implementing a lifecycle policy to move data from Simple Storage Service (S3) used for backups to Amazon Glacier (long-term archival service). -
CK Lens™As a value added service by CloudKeeper, CK Lens offers a comprehensive pre-built dashboard that could let Perkbox deep-dive into it’s AWS cost details as required. -
Server ManagementMoved to the latest configuration servers & downgraded the underutilized serve configurations.
