Cloud Infrastructure Optimization for Cost Reduction and Performance Enhancement

The client faces a significant increase in monthly cloud infrastructure costs, reaching approximately $57,000 per month—a 265% growth over nine months—due to under-utilized computing resources, inconsistent storage configurations, inefficient internal network traffic, and lack of unified resource management policies, leading to excessive expenses and performance inefficiencies.

A mid-to-large size IT services company specializing in security and identity management solutions experiencing rapid growth and rising cloud infrastructure costs.

• Achieve substantial cost savings through resource optimization and waste reduction, targeting annual savings of at least $23,000 per month.
• Reduce instance-related expenses by approximately 67.5%.
• Eliminate unused storage volumes totaling over 900 TB and optimize storage configurations for consistency.
• Improve system performance by approximately 8%, reducing latency and increasing throughput.
• Enhance infrastructure security, scalability, and robustness to support future client growth with minimal cost impact.

• Resource utilization analytics to detect underused compute instances and allocate capacities accordingly.
• Automated cleanup of overlooked and forgotten cloud resources, including instances and volumes.
• Scheduling capabilities to shut non-production resources during offhours.
• Enhanced CI/CD pipeline integration to automatically stop ‘Master’ instances outside business hours.
• Security and permission auditing with validated user and group access controls.
• Storage management with resizing, optimization, and backup to cost-effective storage solutions such as object storage.
• Implementation of storage retention policies to manage old or unused data.
• Establishment of savings plans and reservation strategies aligned with current instance families and load patterns.
• Architecture redesign to reduce internal network data transfer costs through microservices containerization and service chaining.

• CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and resource control
• Security and Identity Management systems for access validation
• Backup and archival storage systems for data retention
• Monitoring tools for performance and cost analytics

• Scalability to handle a doubling of client infrastructure with less than 16% cost increase
• Performance improvements of at least 8% in system efficiency
• Security protocols conforming to industry best practices
• High availability and fault tolerance for critical infrastructure components
• Automated scheduling and resource management for operational efficiency

The implementation of this cloud infrastructure optimization project aims to deliver monthly cost savings of over $23,000, representing a 67.5% reduction in instance-related expenses, while removing approximately 916 TB of unused storage. The project is expected to enhance overall system performance by 8%, improve security posture, and enable the client to support a growth trajectory with less than 16% incremental infrastructure costs, resulting in a more secure, robust, and cost-effective operational environment.