Case Study: Best Friends Animal Society achieves nearly $20,000/month in AWS savings and multi-account visibility with NetApp (CloudCheckr)

CloudCheckr Helps Nonprofit Reduce Cloud Costs and Manage Multiple Accounts

Best Friends Animal Society is a national animal welfare nonprofit that runs the largest no-kill sanctuary in the U.S. and partners with nearly 3,000 shelters. As its AWS footprint grew from two to 18 accounts, the IT team needed better visibility to track and reduce cloud spend, improve security, and simplify troubleshooting across multiple accounts.

Using CloudCheckr (now part of Spot by NetApp) the team gained a single pane of visibility to right-size instances, change costly Glacier storage, implement tagging and billing reports, and set security alerts for public resources. Those actions drove nearly $20,000 in monthly savings—about a 30% reduction across accounts—while improving security posture, speeding troubleshooting, and freeing staff to focus on mission-driven projects.

Best Friends

Brent Bain

Lead Cloud Architect