How a popular ecommerce provider in hospitality industry reduced its spend by more than 70%

1. 2018 Case Study
How a popular ecommerce provider in hospitality industry reduced
its spend by more than 70%
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2. The Problem
Company
Major player in the
hospitality industry
providing ecommerce
service to customers
Context
Organization took cloud
first approach to
outcompete its rivals
with faster development
and more flexibility
Problem statement
Company is looking to
keep lower its cost for its
scaling infrastructure
and ever increasing
feature specs

3. Challenges Deep-dive
Challenge 1
Reseller Based AWS
Provisioning
The Reseller was
providing EC2 instances
on AWS at 10-12% less
cost with long-term
commitments.
Challenge 2
Large Number of EC2
Instances
They were using 150+
EC2 instances across
multiple regions.

4. Solution
insisive cloud was evaluated
against stringent criteria.
1. Evaluate the right pricing
model for instances type.
2. Get insights about the right
sizing instances.
3. Detect the underutilised
instances/ manage the idle
resources.
4. Automated Scripts and
Deployed Code to the
Proposed Solution
5. Ability to reduce other costs
(eg. RDS)

5. Implementation

6. Evaluate with test
environment of EC2
Servers
Identified logical grouping
and converted to
autoscaling group
Import test
environment to
insisive cloud
Monitored the usage for
stability, availability and
cost for next 30 days.
Import staging & data
science environment
to insisive cloud
Gradually moved their
staging and data science
workloads to insisive
cloud.
Utilize cost
governance
Started using Right Sizing
recommendations and
RDS schedulers
Automated CIS
security compliance
checks
Identify network
misconfigurations

7. Impact
- Savings on EC2 instances - 53%*
- Savings by RDS schedulers - 34%*
- Cost saved by right sizing - 24%*
- Deeper cost visibility and secure
environment
*Per month

8. Summary
1. Working with insisive cloud team
to optimally plan the mix of spot
instances/ on demand
instances/ reserved instances
2. Adopted use of Autoscaling
groups more widely
3. Started getting better unit
visibility of costs/ reduce costs
for compute, RDS and identify
wastage and security
configuration issues more easily.

9. About Us
insisive cloud helps Enterprises gain
maximum value of their AWS spend using
a mix of Data-driven insights, advanced
automation and simplified user experience
to reduce their cloud costs by up to 60%.

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