Cost savings through CleanSlate cloud healthcheck

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A leading K-12 online education provider faced rising AWS costs that threatened project budgets and financial stability. CleanSlate was brought in to perform a targeted Cloud Healthcheck to diagnose inefficiencies and cost anomalies. Leveraging native AWS tools and proprietary analysis, CleanSlate identified misconfigurations and under-optimized resources.   The result was a detailed optimization roadmap and an immediate 41% cost reduction—on track to achieve a total of 62% in savings, while enhancing long-term cloud cost governance and efficiency.

Provider of transformational online learning and educational services for students and teachers with a focus on K-12 STEM-based resources.

“CleanSlate assisted us in a review/audit of our AWS footprint and put together a remediation plan and roadmap to help reduce our TCO and improve our efficiency on AWS utilization. They provided a high-quality, professional service that has already paid dividends based on our savings in AWS.” 

challenges

Our client had several different application platforms deployed to AWS, but the month-over-month cost increases were unable to be explained or predicted. Over time, unexpected cost increases led to budget overruns and began impacting other budgeted projects. Cloud costs had risen 35% since the previous quarter without additional workloads being introduced to the current cloud footprint.

Solutions

CleanSlate was engaged to conduct a Cloud HealthCheck cost assessment to determine the root cause of the growing subscription costs. The assessment included the following activities:

 

  • Performed an overall cloud assessment to analyze deployed resources and cloud configuration.
  • Implemented both native and proprietary analysis tools to perform cost analysis and pinpoint configuration issues

Results

62% Reduced Costs

Post-Remediation

Optimized

Cloud Roadmap

 

CleanSlate successfully completed the project with the following outcomes:

 

  • A Cloud Optimization Roadmap was delivered to provide a clear implementation plan for the remediation efforts determined in the assessment findings.
  • Provided multiple recommendations to achieve cost reduction. The initial implementation represented a 41% reduction in costs, with a secondary phase targeted to reduce the subscription costs by another 21%, providing an overall cost reduction of 62%.

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