Case Study: Choice Hotels achieves AWS cost savings and visibility with Spot CloudCheckr

Choice Hotels Optimizes AWS Costs and Resources with CloudCheckr

Choice Hotels, an international hospitality franchisor with more than 7,000 hotel locations, moved its booking and operational data to AWS to support always-on access across its brands. As its cloud footprint grew, the company needed better visibility into deployed resources, stronger tagging and chargeback management, and a way to reduce waste and idle spend across teams. Choice Hotels turned to Spot’s CloudCheckr to help manage cloud costs, governance, and tags.

Using Spot’s CloudCheckr CMx, Choice Hotels gained centralized reporting, usage visibility, and recommendations for reserved instances, rightsizing, and cleanup of unused resources. The platform helped the team remove thousands of idle assets, including EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and load balancers, generating more than $1 million in annualized savings across multiple initiatives. Spot’s CloudCheckr also supported improved cost allocation, better capacity planning, and stronger cloud governance through tagging and best-practice checks.

Choice Hotels

Mike Routier

Senior Cloud Cost Analyst