Case Study: Akeneo triples performance and cuts costs with Elastic Cloud

Akeneo triples performance and cuts costs by 50% with Elastic

Akeneo, a global leader in product information management, faced challenges managing Elasticsearch infrastructure in-house as they scaled. Their self-managed setup on Google Cloud created significant operational overhead, stressful deployments, and diverted engineering resources away from core product development. They sought a more stable, hands-off solution from vendor Elastic.

The solution was migrating to Elastic Cloud on Google Cloud Platform. This five-month transition, supported by Elastic's professional services, required no code changes and caused zero customer impact. The results were substantial: performance tripled, uptime reached 99.9%, and server infrastructure was reduced by 30%, lowering costs and carbon footprint. Operating costs for this layer were cut by 50%, and Akeneo dissolved its dedicated DevOps team, redeploying engineers to product development where they increased deployment frequency from weekly to every 30 minutes.

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