Strongbow conducted a detailed review and savings analysis identifying 20%+ in potential savings for client’s $5M annual spend with AWS.
Client Situation:
- $10B premier retailer with a growing public cloud footprint lacked cost controls for new cloud model
- Decentralized deployment model with multiple accounts and service owners fueled growing costs
- Neither third-party toolsets nor incumbent recommendations adequately optimized costs as additional financial and operational transparency was needed to reveal additional opportunity
Strongbow Approach:
- Established a detailed baseline of current cost drivers
- Strongbow reviewed utilization data, but also dug deeper to understand how applications affected workload placement decisions
- Quantified the impact of re-sizing, reserving, and turning off instances, as well as longer-term savings from shut-down and new services (e.g. serverless)
- Provided recommendations and key points for commercial negotiations
Result:
- Developed actionable recommendations for $1M+ in annualized savings (~20% of spend) while avoiding vendor lock-in with the incumbent provider
- Strongbow also provided additional recommendations to help customer with internal process controls and program governance to help control future growth in cloud expenses