Case Study: Atlassian achieves 90%+ Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance coverage and significant cost savings with Cloudability

Atlassian Leverages Cloudability’s Big Data Analytics Engine to Improve Reserved Instance Coverage

Atlassian, the enterprise team-collaboration software company, needed a clearer, scalable view of its Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) coverage and the True Cost™ of its cloud as its infrastructure grew more complex. Without accurate, aggregated usage insights it was difficult to know whether RI terms were being fully utilized or if purchases would actually save money.

Atlassian adopted Cloudability’s True Cost™ platform to build a “waterline” histogram that visualizes aggregated instance usage and recommends RI buys at a chosen utilization threshold (they target 90%). Basing purchases on this analytics-driven view let them confidently optimize RI coverage, reduce underutilization, and realize significant estimated savings (six-figure estimates with an example savings rate of about 44%).

Atlassian

Mike Fuller

Principal Systems Engineer