Case Study: Demandbase achieves 70% AWS EMR cost reduction with Spot's Elastigroup

Demandbase reduces AWS EMR costs by 70% using EC2 spot instances

Demandbase, a leader in B2B account-based marketing, faced rapidly rising costs and reliability challenges as their analytics platform processed hundreds of terabytes on large AWS EMR clusters. After moving to EC2 spot instances to cut costs, they experienced frequent interruptions and lacked the DevOps automation and fine-grained tuning needed to maintain stable, performant clusters—so they turned to Elastigroup by Spot for a solution.

Spot’s Elastigroup integrated with Demandbase’s EMR clusters, automatically importing deployments, using CloudWatch-driven auto-scaling and machine learning to predict spot interruptions up to 15 minutes ahead, and gracefully replacing at-risk instances while choosing the most cost-effective capacity mix. As a result, Demandbase reduced their AWS EMR costs by over 70%, gained a more stable environment, automated scaling and tuning, and eliminated manual spot-market bidding and recovery.

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