Case Study Insights: Cutting AWS Costs by Half Without Downtime, Vision First Technologies
Vision First Technologies faced a challenge familiar to many fast-growing digital businesses—skyrocketing AWS expenses without proportional performance gains. The organization was determined to rein in cloud costs without sacrificing uptime, speed, or customer experience . Through strategic assessment, architectural refinement, and rightsizing, Vision First transformed its cloud operations and achieved a 50% reduction in monthly AWS costs spend—without a single minute of downtime. This case study highlights how smart observability, automation, and scaling discipline enabled sustainable savings. Key Improvements & Strategic Actions Comprehensive AWS Audit – Identified over-provisioned EC2 instances, unused EBS volumes, legacy snapshots, and duplicate development resources. Rightsizing & Reserved Instances – Replaced oversized compute workloads with a mix of Reserved Instances and Spot Instances , cutting compute costs dramatically. Containerization Strategy – Move...