how one startup saves 65% on aws; reduces burn
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Customer Case Study
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The Situation (I)The team at WolfPack, a new tech startup, were in the process of building and launching their first product, a group motorcycling application.
At this time in a company’s development, every dollar counts. While AWS was the perfect infrastructure stack, optimizing monthly spend was an absolute priority.
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“What Amazon is doing is unbelievable. Things that used to take months or years to accomplish, you can now accomplish in days and weeks by clicking a couple of buttons and writing a little bit of code. But effectively managing cloud spend is a major challenge for any technology startup.”
Jonathan Chashper, CEO
The Situation (II)
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All WolfPack’s non-production instances were put on a schedule to run only when needed, which for Wolfpack is 12 hours a day, 5 days a week – only 60 of the 168 hours of the week.
The Solution
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The Outcome“Even for very small company like us - we have 7-10 servers - we’re still managing to save money with ParkMyCloud. Essentially you get free money for spending maybe 15 minutes to implement ParkMyCloud, and no up-front costs.”
Evan Haines, Product Manager
65% Savings
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About WolfPack
Wolfpack was born out of a desire to improve the group motorcycle experience. Wolfpack, a system that revolutionizes the social travel experience. Wolfpack – now available on both the Apple AppStore and Google Play Store – provides an integrated experience that combines turn-by-turn-navigation and a suite of features to organize and plan shared travel experiences.Find more information: www.wolfpack.run
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About ParkMyCloudParkMyCloud is a simple, single-purpose SaaS tool that enables users to automatically schedule on/off times for their idle cloud computing servers (also known as “parking”). Users save up to 60% on cloud server spend by paying only for the time they actually use to avoid wasted spending. Customers include McDonald's, Sage Software, Neustar, Avid, Wolters Kluwer and Tristar Medical Group. For more information, visit http://www.parkmycloud.com.