Case Study: How a SaaS Company Cut Their AWS Costs by 50% and Boosted Performance

Client Overview

A fast-growing SaaS company had rapidly scaled on AWS, running production workloads that included high-memory application servers, managed databases, and large-scale data transfer needs. Monthly AWS costs had ballooned to $12,500, straining their budget and limiting growth flexibility.

The Challenge

• Rising AWS costs with no end in sight
• Paying for performance they weren’t consistently getting
• No interest in managing or owning physical infrastructure
• Need to cut costs without disrupting performance or operations

The OpsGenius Solution

OpsGenius helped the client seamlessly migrate their infrastructure to dedicated, bare-metal servers without the burden of hardware ownership. The client retained all the benefits of cloud-like deployments and DevOps workflows, but with drastically reduced overhead.

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<th style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">Setup</th>
<th style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">AWS Monthly Cost</th>
<th style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">OpsGenius Dedicated</th>
<th style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">Savings</th>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">App Servers (64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM)</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$6,500</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$3,250</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$3,250/mo</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">2x RDS db.r6g.4xlarge (High I/O)</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$3,000</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$1,500</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$1,500/mo</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">6 TB SSD Block Storage (EBS)</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$1,000</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$500</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$500/mo</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">Load Balancing + 30 TB Bandwidth</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$2,000</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">Included</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$2,000/mo</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">Total</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$12,500</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$5,250</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 8px;">$7,250/mo</td>
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Results

• 50% reduction in monthly infrastructure costs
• Improved performance with no noisy-neighbor interference
• Zero downtime during migration
• No CapEx or hardware management required

Why It Worked

The client's team already understood their infrastructure needs. With OpsGenius handling provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and scaling, they were able to operate just like they did on AWS—only with better margins and more control.

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