Case Study: Totaljobs Group achieves $500K/year hosting savings and 20% lower latency with Amazon Web Services

Totaljobs Group - Customer Case Study

Totaljobs Group, founded in 1999, is one of the UK’s largest online job boards, powering six specialist sites and listing over 200,000 jobs to more than 7 million jobseekers per month. After its 2012 acquisition by StepStone, Totaljobs needed a secure, mature hosting environment that would also cut costs; a proof of concept by their database architect showed Amazon Web Services (AWS) could meet those needs and the company approved a migration.

Totaljobs migrated to AWS in six months, running about 80 EC2 instances with Elastic Load Balancing, AMIs, Route 53, and S3 (about 9 TB today, expected to grow to ~20 TB), and switched to EBS for better I/O and 20% lower latency. With Enterprise AWS Support, they plan to adopt Provisioned IOPS for critical servers. The move avoided roughly $800,000 in SAN replacement capex, is expected to save about $500,000 per year in hosting costs, and gave the company faster deployment, greater scalability, and improved agility.

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James Cahill

CTO, Totaljobs Group