The Challenge: Accurately Sizing a Cloud Environment
A large American manufacturing company made the decision to move its Windows and Linux workload to the public cloud, but they struggled to predict the monthly costs. Their initial cost assessments were vague at best.
They pulled information together from a bunch of tools and scripts. Next, they combined that data with tribal knowledge of their applications and servers (some info in a guy’s head), made a “best guess” on sizing, and then provisioned the environment.
Once they completed the migration, their bill averaged $150,000 per month!
Talk about sticker shock! This amount was way over their budget, and they needed a way to reduce these expenses as quickly as possible.
The Solution: Achieve Cloud Savings with Galileo
The organization turned to Galileo to quickly resolve its overspending challenge.
As a best-in-class infrastructure performance monitoring application, Galileo helps enterprises navigate obstacles on the path to the cloud every day. By comparing data points before their Azure migration and the current timeframe, Galileo delivered immediate cost information for Azure, AWS, and a couple of other providers in a single pane of glass.
The Galileo solution also supplied deep analytics on the organization’s spend per instance enabling cost visibility.
Most importantly, Galileo helped them easily spot waste and reduce their spending even further with automatic right-sizing for their cloud environment.
The Results: $50,000 a Month in Cloud Savings
The results achieved after implementing Galileo were impressive. Not only did they achieve cloud savings, but they also experienced several other benefits that made their cloud environment more efficient and cost-effective. Let’s take a closer look at the specific results they achieved:
- REDUCED SPENDING
The IT organization cut $50,000 off its monthly cloud bill using right-sizing and cloud provider recommendations from Galileo. - SMALLER FOOTPRINT
Galileo enabled the manufacturer spot waste in their cloud environment and reduced over-allocated resources, so they only paid for what they needed. - TIME BACK IN THE DAY
The organization moved away from tedious accounting work and drastically reduced the time spent calculating future migrations.
