Case Study: The Local achieves 65% cloud cost savings with Microtica

The Local cuts cloud costs by 65% with Microtica

The Local, a prominent global news outlet, faced challenges with a lack of transparency and rising costs from their Cloudflare setup, which operated inefficiently alongside their existing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) investment. They partnered with Microtica to consolidate their infrastructure on GCP and gain better cost visibility.

Microtica migrated The Local's environments to GCP, integrating services like Cloud Load Balancing and Cloud Armor. This solution resulted in a 65% reduction in cloud costs, a 40% improvement in security, and a fully unified infrastructure, all achieved in under two months with minimal disruption.

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