Case Study: News UK achieves up to 89% lower EC2 costs with Spot (Spotinst)

Optimizes Cost To Continue Cloud First Approach

News UK, the publisher behind titles such as The Sun and The Times, had migrated nearly all workloads to AWS but faced rapidly rising cloud costs and limited engineering time to pursue spot-instance strategies. To achieve deeper cost optimization without large architectural changes, News UK engaged Spot and its spot-instance automation platform.

Spot configured its platform for News UK in days to automate use of EC2 Spot capacity, delivering substantial savings and operational simplicity. The implementation cut EC2 costs roughly 74% versus on‑demand (with reported workload savings in the 70–89% range), reduced wastage, and freed News UK’s team to focus on delivering for their readers while Spot manages cost-efficient capacity.

News UK

Nikhil Gupta

Technical Integration Manager