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A cloud data infrastructure company relied on extensive use of multiple instance types to test its products. But this made it difficult to optimize costs – a fact which had begun to impact their ability to scale the business.
The GlobalDots team helped the company identify and implement a new infrastructure configuration that both saved them money and maintained exceptional performance. As a result, they were able to continue scaling while improving their bottom line.
Volumez is a company that rapidly scales its testing environment to ensure its products perform optimally across a wide range of CPU architectures. However, their infrastructure configuration and OS choice were based purely on performance considerations – and had not fully taken cost into consideration.
As the company scaled its operations, this problem became clear. The company relied heavily on multiple EC2 instances. But the cost of RedHat licenses, coupled with the extensive use of different instance types, placed a significant financial burden on the company.
Ultimately, they needed to rethink their infrastructure configuration to maintain high performance while also increasing cost-efficiency.
The company chose GlobalDots as their innovation partner, based on the company’s AWS partnership and 20+ years’ experience connecting our clients with groundbreaking FinOps technologies & services.
GlobalDots’ cloud experts undertook an extensive cost optimization strategy that included:
The solution leveraged a range of AWS Services, including:
By migrating from RedHat to Amazon Linux 2 and leveraging Savings Plans, Volumez achieved:
This led to measurable improvements:
15% reduction in overall EC2 costs. | Increased capability to run 20% more instances with the same budget. | Eliminated recurring licensing costs for long-term savings |
This case study demonstrates that cost savings do not have to come at the expense of performance. In fact, the expert team at GlobalDots prides itself on delivering solutions that help our partners simultaneously reduce spend and elevate their product and service offerings.
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