Case Study: Leading Food Manufacturer achieves 12.22% annualized cloud cost savings in 5 months with Flexera Optima

Food giant cooks off 12 percent of cloud spend

A global food manufacturing conglomerate with $13 billion in annual sales and 30,000 employees faced rapidly growing cloud usage but lacked centralized delivery, governance and cost optimization—relying on manual scripting and cloud-native AWS tools. The company needed guardrails for provisioning and better controls as their cloud bill escalated.

After a two-week proof-of-concept they deployed Flexera’s Optima and engaged Flexera’s Cost Optimization Service, which delivered a contextual savings roadmap, automated policies and a customized AWS Reserved Instance plan. In five months they realized 12.22% annualized cloud cost savings overall and 15.21% savings on Amazon EC2, while putting controls in place to prevent future waste.