Case Study: Ziff Davis achieves centralized cloud visibility, governance and cost savings with CloudHealth Technologies

Ziff Davis Manages Subsidiaries, Improves Visibility and Governance with CloudHealth

Ziff Davis, a global media company behind brands like PCMag, IGN and AskMen, faced runaway cloud complexity after acquiring numerous subsidiaries that ran on AWS (and some on Google Cloud). Managing dozens of accounts, hundreds of Reserved Instances and scattered resources via the AWS Console and spreadsheets became unsustainable; the team needed centralized multi‑cloud visibility, governance and automation.

CloudHealth gave Ziff Davis a single pane of glass for policy-driven governance, alerts and automated workflows. The platform consolidated cost reporting and tagging, automated RI recommendations and modifications, and flagged wasted resources (detached EBS volumes, unused Elastic IPs, underutilized instances). Results included automated EBS deletions saving about $400/month, RI optimizations saving over $1,000/month, reduced manual RI administration and faster, more accountable cloud management across subsidiaries.

Ziff Davis

Charmaine Honeycutt

Systems Administrator