Spec’s Director of Engineering, Scott Tsuchiyama, shares how the company shifted from just keeping cloud costs stable to maximizing every dollar spent on AWS. Collaborating with Finance, Scott quickly analyzed cost data and accelerated savings by using commitments — Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RI) — to reduce their AWS costs.
“We had a pretty big shift in prioritization across the board from, ‘let’s make sure that the bill doesn’t significantly jump month to month,’ to, ‘what can we do here to be really smart about how we spend money? How do we get the best bang for our buck when it comes to our infrastructure?’ and, ‘how do we best support our customers along the way?’ Since then, me and the Head of Finance have basically taken all the numbers and dug through them [to determine], ‘what can we do?’ and Archera has played a really big part in allowing us to make a lot of progress really quickly.”
— Scott Tsuchiyama, Director of Engineering, Spec
Learn how Archera customers are succeeding in the cloud:
Discover their stories
