Case Study: Chegg cuts EC2 costs by 70% with Flexera Spot Elastigroup

Chegg cuts EC2 costs by 70% with Flexera

Chegg, a student-first connected learning platform, faced the challenge of managing skyrocketing EC2 costs and operational complexity after empowering its engineering teams to launch microservices on AWS ECS. The company's operations team was overwhelmed, and their EC2 instance count doubled, leading to significant Opex growth. To address this, Chegg turned to vendor Flexera and its Spot Elastigroup solution.

By implementing Flexera's Spot Elastigroup, Chegg automated its ECS infrastructure management, leveraging spot instances and optimizing reserved instance usage. The solution provided by Flexera resulted in a 70% reduction in EC2 costs, freed the operations team from manual tasks, and offered unparalleled cost visibility. This automation also ensured business continuity during events like AWS maintenance, enabling Chegg's successful adoption of a containerized architecture.

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