Cloud cost optimization case studies
Every result below is measured against the client's own baseline and verified against billing data, then anonymized at the sector level. Our flagship engagement left a scaling fintech 41% lighter on its annual cloud run-rate, with no slip to its feature roadmap.
A scaling fintech, 41% lighter.
"They found $11M a year we'd written off as the cost of growth, and left us a team that keeps finding more."
The fintech ran across AWS, Azure, and GCP with no single source of truth on cost. We built one normalized cost model on Datum, banked the no-regret wins first, then rearchitected the workloads driving the bill.
Results by sector and cloud.
Anonymized, sector-level engagements. Reductions are measured against each client's own baseline and verified against billing data.
| Client (anonymized) | Clouds | Primary levers | Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series D fintech | AWS, Azure, GCP | Commitment blend, rightsizing, data-transfer cleanup | 41% |
| Fortune 500 retailer | AWS | EDP renegotiation, Savings Plans coverage, storage tiering | 34% |
| European SaaS company | Azure | Reservations, Hybrid Benefit, Log Analytics caps | 29% |
| AI & ML platform | GCP, OCI | CUD coverage, GPU capacity governance, BigQuery capacity pricing | 33% |
| Healthcare data provider | OCI | Universal Credits sizing, Support Rewards, flexible compute shapes | 27% |
// all figures verified against billing data and anonymized at the sector level
The same method every time.
Results like these are not luck. They come from a repeatable program: baseline the spend, ship the no-regret savings first, rearchitect the workloads that drive the bill alongside your engineers, then install the governance that keeps spend flat as you grow. Read the full approach in the method, phase by phase.
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