Small and medium businesses
We ran Well-Architected reviews for small and medium businesses in e-commerce, retail, art, fashion and tourism. They found idle capacity, so we cut cost without losing performance.
The facts
The result
Up to 8% lower costFrom a capacity plan built on six months of operating data
Across several customers
What the reviews focused on
- Operational excellence: covered
- Security: not covered
- Reliability: not covered
- Performance efficiency: covered
- Cost optimization: covered
- Sustainability: not covered
The challenge
- Cost saving and performance, wanted together.
- Capacity far above need.
- Security in place, but no structure for cost.
What we did
- Reviewed each workload against the Well-Architected Framework.
- Built a capacity plan from six months of operating data.
- Tagged resources, right-sized them, and set up auto-scaling where it fitted.
- Set budgets and forecasts, and worked out the total cost of ownership.
- Defined metrics for the health of each workload.
- Used Spot or Reserved Instances where they suited the case.
What came of it
- CostUp to 8% lower across several customers, from the capacity plan.
- LoadSome systems handled up to 97% of peak load afterwards.
- Follow-upCustomers asked for a review every six months.
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