Case Study: Relativity reduces Kubernetes cloud costs by millions with Harness Cloud Cost Management

Relativity Reduced Kubernetes Cloud Costs by Millions in 5 Months

Relativity, a SaaS company, wanted to improve deployment velocity and reduce cloud spend during its migration to Windows Azure. Using Harness Cloud Cost Management, the team needed better visibility into costs by application and microservice, since expenses had previously been aggregated in a way that made it hard for engineering teams to understand and manage their Kubernetes-related usage.

With Harness Cloud Cost Management, Relativity gave product and engineering teams self-service access to cloud spend data by application, microservice, environment, cluster, namespace, workload, node, and pod. Harness helped Relativity cut cloud spend by 30–40% for a new microservice in 30 days, generate six-figure annualized savings in the first month, reduce Kubernetes costs by 40% per day, double pod density from 40 to 100 per node, save millions over five months, and defer the need for 1 FTE to build an internal cost management tool.

Relativity

Corey Wagehoft

Lead Systems Engineer