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ImmunisAI

AWS Cost Optimization That Cut Monthly Spend by 30% Without Sacrificing Performance

30%
Cost Reduction
2 Months
Time to Full Optimization
Zero Downtime
During Optimization

The Challenge

ImmunisAI, a growing biotech startup, was burning cash on AWS infrastructure. Their monthly bill continued climbing with limited visibility into what was driving costs. The team was concerned about over-provisioning but afraid to make changes that could break production systems.

  • AWS costs increasing month-over-month with no clear explanation
  • Over-provisioned resources "just in case" to avoid performance issues
  • Lack of visibility into which services were driving costs
  • No automated monitoring or alerting for cost anomalies
  • Fear of optimization breaking critical biotech data processing workflows
  • Limited internal expertise in AWS cost management and optimization

Our Solution

We conducted a comprehensive AWS infrastructure audit and implemented a strategic optimization plan that reduced costs by 30% over two months, all without affecting output, productivity, or system reliability.

Phase 1: Comprehensive Audit

  • Cost Analysis: Deep dive into AWS Cost Explorer to identify top spending services
  • Resource Inventory: Complete catalog of all EC2 instances, RDS databases, S3 buckets, and other resources
  • Utilization Review: CloudWatch metrics analysis to identify underutilized resources
  • Architecture Assessment: Review of current infrastructure patterns and inefficiencies
  • Waste Identification: Discovery of idle resources, orphaned volumes, and unused snapshots

Phase 2: Strategic Optimization

  • Right-Sizing: Downsized over-provisioned EC2 instances based on actual usage patterns
  • Storage Optimization: Implemented S3 Intelligent-Tiering and lifecycle policies for cold data
  • Reserved Instances: Purchased 1-year RIs for predictable workloads (40-60% savings)
  • Compute Optimization: Migrated appropriate workloads to AWS Lambda for serverless efficiency
  • Database Tuning: Right-sized RDS instances and enabled storage auto-scaling
  • Cleanup: Removed orphaned EBS volumes, old snapshots, and unused resources

Phase 3: Ongoing Management

  • Cost Monitoring: Set up AWS Budgets with automatic alerts for anomalies
  • Tagging Strategy: Implemented comprehensive resource tagging for cost allocation
  • Monthly Reviews: Established routine cost optimization reviews
  • Documentation: Created runbooks for cost management best practices

Results & Impact

30%
Cost Reduction

Significant monthly savings with immediate ROI.

2 Months
Time to Full Optimization

Phased approach minimized risk and validated results.

Zero
Production Disruptions

No downtime or performance degradation during changes.

100%
Output Maintained

Same productivity with significantly lower costs.

Where We Saved Money

Compute (EC2 & Lambda)

~40% savings

Right-sized instances, implemented auto-scaling, migrated batch jobs to Lambda

Storage (S3 & EBS)

~35% savings

Lifecycle policies, Intelligent-Tiering, removed old snapshots and unused volumes

Database (RDS)

~25% savings

Right-sized instances, enabled storage auto-scaling, purchased Reserved Instances

Data Transfer & Other

~15% savings

Optimized data transfer patterns, removed idle resources, cleaned up unused services

Technologies & Tools Used

AWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsCloudWatchAWS Trusted AdvisorEC2AWS LambdaAmazon S3Amazon RDSEBSReserved InstancesTerraformPython

"We were concerned about our growing AWS costs but didn't know where to start. Dasnuve conducted a thorough audit, implemented strategic optimizations, and reduced our monthly bill by 30%, all without any disruption to our biotech research operations. The savings have been a game-changer for our startup."

— ImmunisAI Leadership Team

Implementation Timeline

Week 1-2

Comprehensive Audit

Full infrastructure review, cost analysis, utilization assessment

Week 3-4

Quick Wins

Cleanup of unused resources, initial right-sizing, S3 lifecycle policies

Week 5-6

Strategic Optimizations

EC2 right-sizing, RDS optimization, Reserved Instance purchases

Week 7-8

Monitoring & Validation

Cost tracking setup, performance validation, documentation handoff

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