Case Study: red violet cuts compute costs 50–70% with Amazon Web Services (Amazon EC2 Spot Instances)

red violet Reduces Compute Costs by 50% Using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

red violet is a cloud‑native software and services company that solves large‑scale entity‑resolution and identity problems for industries like financial services, insurance, and government. The company needed massive, continuous compute to process trillions of transactions and wanted to avoid the tens of millions in upfront capital and underutilized data‑center capacity that traditionally supported such workloads.

red violet moved its analytics to AWS and uses Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with Amazon EBS plus a proprietary checkpointing and automation layer (built in C++) to tolerate interruptions and restart jobs quickly. This approach lets the company run hundreds of large instances daily, cuts compute costs by 50–70% (and avoids more than $10M in upfront spend), and frees budget to improve data‑science algorithms and increase processing throughput.

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Dan MacLachlan

Chief Financial Officer