Cost Optimization using Coforge Cloud Operations Services
Overview.
The client is a consortium of three major charities based in the United Kingdom and is committed to helping, encouraging and inspiring the needy. They provide support, run funding programs and participate in research work to improve people's lives.
The customer’s monthly spends on Cloud resources was significantly higher than what was budgeted. The customer approached the Coforge team for help.
Solution.
Coforge's Operations team set up the Governance, Processes, and reporting mechanism to put control around Cloud resource deployment and control the cost. Monitoring and Alerting are configured to address the operational issues in a timely and efficient manner. Cloud Operations SMEs reviewed the Cloud environment and provided the recommendations to optimize the cost by right-sizing the VM instances, Storage Disk optimizations, converting the PAYG VMs to Reserved Instances, implementing Automation runbooks for power-off and power-on the non-production VMs at a defined schedule.
The impact.
Coforge's Solution helped the customer to achieve significant business value at multiple levels. Approx. 45% reduction in the monthly Cloud Consumption. 24*7 operating Cloud Operation team and effective service management processes improved the availability of the application further contributing to smoother Business Operations. Coforge's Cloud Governance provided better Cost control, reduced risks and visibility to operational performance.
