Traditional AWS cost optimization focusing on optimizing resources is time-consuming, manual, and stressful. Hear how Spec achieved the same savings instantly — without risk to infrastructure or complicated cross-department approvals. Spec’s Scott Tsuchiyama reveals how turning on Archera for RDS and EC2 immediately delivered 15–20% savings — with none of the usual headaches.
“Most of our cost optimization projects are longer, they’re more stressful, they involve trading instances in and out, turning things off, turning things back on, doing things by hand — kind of old-school Ops-wise. And, we’ve seen substantial savings with those projects. But we’ve also seen about the same amount of savings from just implementing Archera and turning Archera on for RDS and EC2 to get the Guaranteed Reserved Instances. We’re in the middle of our journey on cost optimization, but, to be able to just get the 15–20% savings right off the bat, just by turning on Archera for the infrastructure we’re committed to, it’s a really nice hot start to the project.”
— Scott Tsuchiyama, Director of Engineering, Spec
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