NetRoadshow, a leading US-based provider of secure online roadshows for investment banks and corporations, operates in a cloud-intensive environment where availability and performance are non-negotiable. However, as their cloud footprint scaled, so did the complexity of managing it efficiently.
To gain clarity, control, and cost optimization across their AWS infrastructure, NetRoadshow adopted CloudKeeper Tuner.
How NetRoadshow Uncovers Long-standing AWS Cost Blind Spots with CloudKeeper Tuner
How NetRoadshow Uncovers Long-standing AWS Cost Blind Spots with CloudKeeper Tuner
Overview
Challenges
Despite leveraging native AWS tools and in-house monitoring practices, NetRoadshow encountered:
Underutilized resources not flagged by conventional tooling
Inactionable recommendations due to lack of prioritization or historical insights
Explainability and dollar impact unknown for un-optimized resources
They needed a solution that didn’t just surface cost-saving recommendations—but helped connect the dots across time, accounts, and services.
The Solution
Solution: CloudKeeper Tuner
NetRoadshow onboarded 10+ AWS accounts onto Tuner, unlocking centralized governance, real-time recommendations, and visibility into persistent inefficiencies.
- $4,900+ in monthly potential savings identified, spanning services like EC2, RDS, EBS, and more
- RDS Savings accounted for ~17% of their monthly RDS spend, spotlighting significant rightsizing opportunities
- 60+ day old recommendations spotlighted long-ignored inefficiencies—offering a backlog of savings ready to be actioned
- 1+ year-old suggestions revealed legacy oversizing and misconfiguration, helping initiate long-overdue cleanup
Values Delivered Description
Future Roadmap: Unlocking More with Scheduler
As part of their roadmap, they plan to leverage Scheduler’s automation capabilities to optimize non-production workloads—such as development, staging, and testing environments—without impacting performance or availability.
What’s ahead:
- Projected 10–12% Additional Savings by automating start-stop cycles across services like EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, RDS, ECS, and Redshift
- Effortless Policy-Based Automation to reduce cloud wastage and ensure consistent cost control
- Operational Ease at Scale, allowing engineering teams to focus on innovation while Scheduler handles infrastructure efficiency in the background
With Scheduler in the pipeline, NetRoadshow is set to strengthen its FinOps maturity and continue driving measurable cloud savings—month after month.
Outcome
Points Description
CloudKeeper Tuner didn’t just offer NetRoadshow instant savings—it delivered a continuous cost saving platform empowering their teams to:
Prioritize long-standing blind spots
Strategically plan for future automation through Scheduler and other modules
Explainability and dollar value impact of each savings
Conclusion
For a performance-focused organization like NetRoadshow, CloudKeeper Tuner proved to be a cost governance companion, not just a recommendation engine. And with forecasted automation-ready opportunities still on the table, the journey to deeper savings has just begun.
CloudKeeper Tuner didn’t just help us save thousands by identifying and removing unused resources—it pushed us to rethink and modernize parts of our architecture for better performance. Our DevOps engineers now see live, in-console cost-saving opportunities as they work, like having an always-on assistant. It’s a tool built for scale, speed, and real-world cloud teams.
Pratish Arora
Principal DevOps Engineer
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