Cloud infrastructure sprawl sneaks up on organizations over time, through a series of individual decisions that in aggregate become inefficient. So when we were presented with an opportunity to review some of our operational costs, cloud infrastructure was very much the place to start. MoneySupermarket Group PLC is a strategic UK client for AWS, operating with a material footprint of IaaS instances. As a result, optimising the use of these resources in both development and production is a key consideration in our cost management.
We knew we could be more efficient and that the growth in costs was driven by our tooling, processes, organisational structure, and mindset. But first, we had to ask for more money; as the saying goes, “You have to spend money to make money.” But sometimes you also have to spend money now in order to save money later.
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