API integration company reduces AWS spend with SHI services

The organization not only saved money but also stayed concentrated on growth, thanks to SHI.

Challenge:

An API integration platform for SaaS app providers was rapidly growing in AWS and needed to identify true growth and unnecessary cloud spend. They chose to focus their highly skilled resources on development rather than cleaning up unused resources or understanding AWS’ discount programs. SHI’s support helped cover the rest.

Solution:

SHI leveraged our Cost Optimization Managed Service – a cloud managed services solution designed to help organizations:

• Gain full visibility into their IT environment.
• Take control of their assets.
• Simplify technology usage.
• Reduce costs.

The customer utilized the service for an initial 30-day assessment, which found a 30% increase in cost-savings within that year. SHI also discovered more than 30% in achievable savings, identifying several cost-effective opportunities across AWS services.

 

Outcome:

The company successfully implemented SHI’s recommendations into their ongoing governance and automation strategy, and achieved the following benefits as a result:

• Reduced S3 storage costs through tiering of objects and by life cycling to Infrequent Access and Glacier
• Reduced Elastic File System (EFS) spend by 76% by deleting old files and moving their Production EFS to Infrequent Access
• Implemented two compute savings plans to save approximately 43% of their On-Demand EC2 compute cost
• Terminated unused load balancers
• Began EDP discussions with AWS

The customer has since onboarded their billing to SHI. They’re currently receiving account management support along with cost optimization assistance through ongoing monthly review meetings, ultimately prioritizing and identifying cost-saving opportunities.