Case Study: Nubank achieves 60% AWS compute cost savings and increased scalability with NetApp Spot Ocean

Nubank makes digital finance modern, simple, and easy

Nubank is the largest fintech in Latin America, serving about 85 million customers with mobile-first, data‑driven banking aimed at breaking down financial barriers for the underbanked. To support rapid growth and complex machine‑learning workloads across AWS, the company needed better cost control and operational efficiency—especially during peak events like Black Friday—while maintaining high availability for millions of users.

Partnering with RealCloud and NetApp, Nubank deployed a cloud data‑management solution using Spot by NetApp (Spot Ocean, Elastigroup, and Spot Eco) to automate autoscaling and optimize spot, reserved, and on‑demand capacity. The result: average AWS compute savings of about 60% for Kubernetes workloads, roughly 30% reduction in overall IT costs, improved scalability and availability during peak demand, and a more efficient platform to expand services across the region.

Nubank

Daniel Capp

Product Operations Manager