Case Study: Asana achieves cloud cost and resource savings with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Asana realizes optimization opportunities with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Asana, a cloud-native enterprise work management platform serving over 150,000 customers with ~1,800 employees, needed to maintain high product velocity and cost efficiency while running almost exclusively on AWS. Its homegrown cost-management tooling struggled with slow queries, large datasets, and difficult maintenance, making it hard for teams to investigate spend and keep up with dataset changes.

By adopting Datadog Cloud Cost Management, Asana gained high-fidelity, fast cost data integrated with observability, plus easy support for unit economics. Within weeks the team identified optimization opportunities—reducing the cloud bill and resource usage across DynamoDB, S3 lifecycle policies, and Kubernetes autoscaling—while enabling proactive cost planning and greater confidence to execute more complex architectural changes.

Asana

Yannis Spiliopoulos

Tech Lead, Production Infrastructure