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AWS & Infrastructure as Code · Data Service Group · 2024 – now

AWS cost optimisation without losing availability

−30% cloud spend

Auto scaling, cost tagging and budget monitoring across EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate and Lambda.

Problem

Cloud spend needed to come down without putting availability or SLA compliance at risk.

Solution

Optimised and supported EC2, API Gateway, S3, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, WAF, Route 53 and CloudTrail, using Auto Scaling groups, cost tagging and budget monitoring tools.

Architecture

  1. Cost tagging
  2. Budget monitoring
  3. Rightsizing
  4. Auto Scaling
  5. SLA check

Tools

AWSAuto ScalingCost taggingBudgets

Outcome

A 30% reduction in cloud spend with no impact on application availability or SLA compliance.

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