Challenges

Payment solution companies shouldn’t be burning through their own cash. But when it comes to the sprawl of the cloud, it can seem impossible to know exactly where those costs are coming from. And to make it more complex, often different teams within an organization subscribe to services without a comprehensive overview. This leads to unnecessary spending. Unless you know where to look.

That was the struggle for this global payment solutions organization. The IT department had trouble breaking down their cloud spending and needed an assessment of their cloud environment. But their current cloud consultants couldn’t provide that level of service.

When TierPoint offered a thorough review of cloud spend and expert advice on cost optimization, they chose to collaborate with our cloud specialists for detailed insights.

The results of their 2-week assessment uncovered unexpected spending and resource draining on a scale that was shocking.

The in-depth analysis of their infrastructure found that:

• About a fifth of the company’s Microsoft Azure usage was out of alignment, including large swaths of idle and unused resources that were eating up storage space, causing costs to spiral
• Many virtual machines were only utilizing 50% or less of certain resources. This led to a massive resizing opportunity
• Simple money and time-saving features, like Azure’s reservation capability, were not enabled, leading to unnecessary, easily avoidable cloud costs