Case Study: ClearCare achieves 80% cloud cost savings and $40K/month reduction with Spot (Spotinst)

ECS Autoscaling On Spot Saves $40K Monthly

ClearCare, the leading home‑care technology platform serving 4,000+ agencies and hundreds of thousands of caregivers and seniors, faced rapidly rising AWS costs as usage spiked. The company’s complex architecture (immutable infrastructure, multi‑AZ deployments, auto‑scaling groups and Amazon ECS) and a priority on reliability left little internal bandwidth to pursue cost optimization, so ClearCare turned to Spot to address ECS cost challenges.

Spot migrated ClearCare’s ECS workloads onto Spot Instances and delivered a personalized ECS autoscaler, an out‑of‑the‑box implementation that the team could enable quickly. The result was immediate: roughly 80% savings within a month, about $40K saved monthly, and an additional ~60% reduction in compute costs after the autoscaler rollout—allowing ClearCare to meet cost goals without compromising reliability.

ClearCare

Glenn Poston

Manager of Systems Reliability Engineering and DevOps