Taming an out-of-control cloud bill

The Challange

Brightline’s cloud bill had tripled in two years as teams spun up resources freely. Nobody could say which products were driving costs.

Our Solutions

We ran a cloud cost review, introduced tagging standards, rightsized compute, moved cold video storage to cheaper tiers and set up budgets and alerts per team. We also trained engineers on cost-aware design.

Results

Monthly cloud spend reduced by 41%; 100% of resources tagged by product and team Cost anomalies now flagged within 24 hours

Technology Stack

AWS Cost Explorer, CloudWatch, S3 lifecycle policies, Terraform