Case Study: N26 achieves 85% EC2 cost savings with Spot's Elastigroup

How N26 cut their EC2 bill by 85%

N26, Europe’s leading mobile bank with over 5 million customers, faced the challenge of rapidly scaling its EC2 infrastructure while controlling rising cloud costs. The N26 DevOps team adopted Spot and its Elastigroup product to find a cost-effective, scalable way to run their auto‑scaled environments without changing their existing load‑balancer architecture.

Using Spot’s import wizard and Elastigroup, N26 migrated auto‑scaled AWS environments in minutes, keeping seamless integration with CLB/ALB/NLB, automatically draining instances predicted to terminate, and using Auto Healing to replace unhealthy instances. Spot’s solution—plus native integrations with Jenkins and Nomad—allowed N26 to maintain capacity and resilience while cutting EC2 spend by 85%, significantly improving scalability and reducing operating costs.

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