Case Study: Minga achieves 30–40% lower cloud costs and faster scaling with Control Plane

Minga cuts cloud costs 30–40% with Control Plane

Minga, a K-12 EdTech company providing a campus management platform, faced a scalability bottleneck with its infrastructure on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The engineering team, which heavily utilized AI-assisted development for application code, found that managing and deploying services on GKE was slow and complex, hindering their overall velocity. The platform required manual configuration across multiple services, leading to state drift and operational burdens that prevented the company from keeping pace with its hypergrowth.

Control Plane provided a solution by allowing Minga to run its workloads on the Control Plane platform within GCP, using its Cloud Wormhole technology to connect to existing services. This eliminated the need for Minga to manage Kubernetes directly. The results included a 30-40% reduction in cloud compute costs due to aggressive, automated scaling that matched their highly variable traffic patterns. Furthermore, Control Plane provided a path to a multi-cloud future and offered unexpectedly robust support, enabling Minga to focus on growth rather than infrastructure.

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