Case Study: Dynata achieves better AWS cost visibility and tagging compliance with CloudForecast

How Dynata's DevOps & SRE Team Leverages CloudForecast for Better AWS Cloud Governance

Dynata, the world's largest first-party data and insights platform, faced challenges in managing and socializing its AWS costs. Their existing third-party tool did not provide sufficient value or fine-grained cost insights without significant manual effort. They needed a solution for better cloud governance, cost monitoring across different teams, and identifying untagged resources to improve security.

CloudForecast implemented its cost management solution to address these challenges. The platform provided Dynata with automated, detailed reports that could slice and dice cost data by tags, accounts, and resources. Features like ZeroWaste identified idle resources, and reports on tagging compliance helped the security team. This allowed Dynata to eliminate unnecessary cloud usage, resulting in an estimated 15x return on investment from using CloudForecast.

Dynata

Michael Schueler

Lead Engineer for DevOps