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CASE STUDY

Cloud Cost Optimization That Cut $43K/Month Spend to $26K — Without Compromising Security

Coraltech, a CPA practice management SaaS, was running a cloud environment costing over $43,000/month with high risk and poor scalability. DevOptiv restructured the entire infrastructure reducing monthly spend to $26,000 while strengthening security and enabling demand-based scaling.

The Brief

Project Overview

Corltech was running a large-scale SaaS platform on AWS with 70+ subdomains and 55+ EC2 instances. The platform was working. The infrastructure costs were not.Monthly cloud spend had grown past $43,000 without a corresponding increase in architectural efficiency or security maturity. The infrastructure had scaled reactively, adding resources when needed rather than building a governed, optimized environment.
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Client

Coraltech - AWS Platform Management

Industry

SaaS (CPA Practice Management)

Stage

Growth-Stage Platform

Services

Cloud Cost Optimization, Architecture Restructuring, Security Hardening

Tech Stack

AWS (EC2, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans), Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), Infrastructure Monitoring & Cost Governance Tooling

Problem

    The specific problems were financial and structural:

    01 Cloud spend exceeding $43K per month with no cost governance in place

      02 Inefficient resource allocation across 55+ EC2 instances

        03 No Reserved Instances or Savings Plans applied to predictable workloads

          04 Static, always-on architecture with no demand-based scaling

            05 Gaps in cloud security posture and workload-level protection

              Leadership needed to bring costs under control without disrupting the platform, and to build an infrastructure that could support future growth without future cost explosions.

              Solution

              The engagement addressed three things simultaneously: financial optimization, architectural efficiency, and security posture. None of these could be treated in isolation without creating problems in the others.

              Cloud Cost and Utilization Audit

              Conducted a detailed analysis of compute usage patterns, instance sizing, workload distribution, and billing structure to identify inefficiencies and unnecessary spend.

              Architecture Restructuring

              Rebuilt the infrastructure to support on-demand scaling, ensuring resources are provisioned based on actual usage instead of worst-case assumptions.

              Cost Governance Implementation

              Introduced Reserved Instances and AWS Savings Plans for predictable workloads, converting variable costs into discounted and predictable spending.

              Resource Rationalization

              Eliminated underutilized instances, redundant services, and oversized allocations while right-sizing remaining resources to actual workload needs.

              Security Hardening and CWPP Deployment

              Strengthened cloud security posture and deployed a Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) to ensure workload-level visibility and threat protection.

              Operational Monitoring and Governance

              Established continuous monitoring of performance, cost trends, and security alerts to enable proactive infrastructure management.

              OUTCOMES

              Cloud spend reduced from $43,000 to $26,000 per month (approximately 40% reduction)

              Monthly savings of approximately $17,000 verified against AWS billing

              Cost-governed environment with predictable spending through Reserved Instances and Savings Plans

              Demand-based architecture replacing static resource allocation

              Strengthened security posture with workload-level protection via CWPP

              Full infrastructure visibility and monitoring operational for ongoing management

              Proof of Impact

              • Verified AWS billing reduction of approximately $17K per month

              • Reserved Instances and Savings Plans implemented across baseline workloads

              • Optimization completed across 55+ EC2 instances

              • CWPP deployed for workload-level security coverage

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