Damstra saves 22% in AWS cloud costs with CloudKeeper AZ

Damstra Technology is a global leader in enterprise protection software. They provide multiple SaaS offerings which include workforce management, access control, asset management, learning management and HSE management solutions.

Industry

Enterprise Software Services

Headquarters

Melbourne, Australia

Founded in

1998

Challenges

Being a SaaS provider of enterprise solutions, Damstra is a cloud-native business with their major infrastructure hosted on AWS. They faced multiple FinOps challenges including -

Complex

Complex Workload Distribution

They struggled with the intricate distribution of cloud workloads across multiple teams and geographical locations. This complexity hindered efficient resource management and cost optimization, posing operational challenges.

Manual

Cost Deprioritization

The engineering team at Damstra prioritized developing new features, moving cloud cost optimization slightly out of focus. This adversely affected financial efficiency and hindered the company’s efforts to optimize expenditure within their AWS infrastructure.

Solution

Damstra got onboard CloudKeeper AZ in July 2020 and achieved notable savings right from Day 1.CloudKeeper delivered more than 12% of savings on their entire AWS bills instantly. The solution helped them in optimizing their AWS Reservation Management.

Damstra also saved an additional 10% on their cloud costs, by the following architectural optimizations -

Moving applications to latest generation instances
Network tuning to reduce data transfer
Architectural changes in load balancer setup

Customer Speaks

Damien Camilleri

Chief Technology Officer

CloudKeeper really helps us keep control of our cloud costs in a simple and concise format. It is easy to track down cost increases and anomalies across all of our cloud accounts.

Other Success Stories

How MobiKwik reduced their AWS costs by 25-30% using CloudKeeper EDP+
Founded - 2009
Headquarters - Gurugram, India
v
How eLocal is leveraging CloudKeeper to adopt FinOps best practices & reduce their AWS cost by 25%
Founded - 2008
Headquarters - Pennsylvania, USA
v