Case Study: Wiser achieves 60% AWS cost savings and 3x capacity with Spot (Spotinst Elastigroup)

How Wiser is using the Spotinst platform to ensure 100% uptime and save money by using Spot Instances on AWS

Wiser, a San Francisco–based retail data‑mining company, relied on AWS to run crawling workers and analytics but found AWS Spot Instances too unreliable—losing up to 90% of capacity instantly. They were introduced to Spotinst (Spot) and began using the Spotinst Group / Elastigroup offering to stabilize Spot capacity and enable auto-scaling across multiple AZs and instance types.

Spot implemented its Elastigroup and Optimizer to manage bidding, multi‑AZ instance distribution, and auto-scaling with a minutes‑long integration and a two‑week POC. After deploying Spot’s solution, Wiser saved more than $10,000 in under two months, cut AWS costs by about 60%, and increased capacity threefold while achieving reliable availability.

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