Case Study: Symphony Talent reduces AWS costs by 48% with CloudZero

How Symphony Talent Reduced AWS Costs By 48% Through Engineering-Led Optimizations

Symphony Talent, a SaaS recruiting technology company, needed better visibility into its complex multi-cloud environment after cloud costs were rising quickly and finance and engineering teams lacked clear, timely answers. Using CloudZero, Symphony Talent aimed to improve cost allocation, budgeting, and engineering engagement across AWS and Azure while gaining more accurate product- and client-level cloud cost insight.

CloudZero implemented 100% cost ingestion, intelligent cost allocation with CostFormation®, anomaly detection, and automated financial reporting to help Symphony Talent manage spend more proactively. The results were significant: Symphony Talent reduced AWS costs by 48% against projections, reversed a prior upward cost trend, cut EBS costs by 15% after moving volumes from GP2 to GP3, and automated key reporting for finance and leadership.

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Tyler Holbrook

Chief Information Officer