Case Study: Atlassian achieves optimal Reserved Instance coverage with Apptio Cloudability (Apptio)

How Atlassian Nailed the Reserved Instance Buying Process

Atlassian, an enterprise team collaboration software company, needed a clearer picture of its AWS EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) coverage as its cloud infrastructure grew. Lacking visibility into actual usage and spend made it difficult to ensure RI seconds were fully utilized and maintain optimal coverage at scale, so the engineering team sought an analytics solution rather than basic reporting.

Atlassian implemented Apptio Cloudability to create a “waterline” visualization and target 90% aggregated RI coverage, enabling data-driven RI purchases based on break-even and combined usage patterns. The platform’s analyses, reports, and automation helped improve enterprise-wide RI coverage and gave Atlassian the ongoing cost and usage insights needed to run a more efficient, scalable cloud infrastructure.

Atlassian

Mike Fuller

Principal Systems Engineer