Case Study: Avid achieves $55,000 annual AWS savings with ParkMyCloud

ParkMyCloud helps Avid reduce annual AWS spending by $55k

Avid, a global audio and video technology company, migrated its enterprise development, testing, and production platforms to AWS and faced a cultural and operational challenge: educating distributed teams about the cloud’s hourly OpEx model and preventing non-production instances from running 24x7. To address this, they turned to ParkMyCloud, a SaaS scheduling/parking solution for AWS that helps stop idle instances from accruing costs.

ParkMyCloud was implemented to attach schedules to non‑production instances (using AWS tagging and multiple timezone-aware schedules) to shut down resources nights and weekends, while Avid retained Reserved Instances for always‑on production servers. The result: Avid reduced annual AWS spending by $55,000, with ParkMyCloud enabling straightforward, measurable cost savings and better team engagement around hourly cloud charges.

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Lee Blackwell

Global IT Technical and Operations Services Manager