Case Study: Konga achieves two-thirds reduction in cloud infrastructure costs with Google Cloud Platform

Konga Cutting cloud infrastructure costs by two-thirds

Konga, one of Nigeria’s largest e‑commerce marketplaces hosting more than 10,000 vendors and roughly 180,000 users, struggled with an expensive, poorly optimized cloud setup that paid for idle resources during off‑peak periods. The company was spending $85,000–$120,000 per month on infrastructure, experienced uneven performance, and carried a heavy DevOps overhead to manage scaling and maintenance.

Konga moved to a containerized architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine with support from Opennetworks and DotModus, switching from load‑balanced VMs to scalable clusters that pack more workloads into less compute. The change cut monthly infrastructure costs to under $30,000 (roughly a two‑thirds reduction), improved server response times by 5%–400%, reduced the DevOps team from eight to two, and set the stage for further savings via future serverless migrations.

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Andrew Mori

Director of Technology