Case Study: a major AI development company cuts cloud bills by $750,000 with IBM Kubecost

a major AI development company slices $750,000 off cloud bills in four months with Apptio

The customer, a major AI development company, faced challenges gaining visibility into its shared cloud infrastructure costs and accurately identifying product margins after adopting Kubernetes. Their inefficient DevOps practices and rapidly growing Amazon EC2 usage created a need for a seamless and cost-efficient monitoring solution, leading them to partner with Apptio and implement its IBM Kubecost product.

Apptio's solution, IBM Kubecost, provided a single pane of glass for monitoring Kubernetes and EC2 spending across all accounts. This enabled the company to quickly identify overprovisioning and untagged resources. As a result, they achieved $750,000 in annualized savings within just four months of implementation without impacting application performance, while also gaining the ability to more accurately forecast revenue and margins.