Case Study: Leading US Specialty Discount Retailer achieves over $5M in cloud savings with Ensono

Enhancing Cloud Efficiency and Cost Savings for a Leading US Specialty Discount Retailer

The Leading US Specialty Discount Retailer, a fast-growing multibillion-dollar US retailer, was struggling with rising Azure and Azure Databricks costs as its cloud usage scaled rapidly. The company needed a better strategy to control spend, improve data management, and support advanced analytics and AI without adding inefficiency, and it turned to Ensono for help.

Ensono delivered a tailored cloud optimization strategy that included right-sizing VMs and compute, using Spot Instances, improving governance with Unity Catalog, optimizing Databricks jobs and clusters, tightening backup and storage practices, and leveraging enterprise licensing agreements. The result was projected savings of over $5 million over five years, a 25% annual reduction in Azure expenses, and an ROI payback period of just 4 months.