Case Study: Petabyte reduces SAP HANA costs by over 65% with Spot

Petabyte cuts SAP HANA costs by over 65% with Spot

Petabyte, a cloud compute consultancy firm, faced a challenge for their customer, a major reinsurance company, which needed to swiftly reduce its IT infrastructure costs by at least 45%. The largest cost was from hosting their SAP HANA database and applications on AWS. The initial solution of scheduling instances only achieved a 15% reduction, falling short of the target without risking application continuity.

Spot implemented a solution that involved technical adjustments to SAP and a phased migration of workloads to AWS Spot Instances. This included applying SAP notes, orchestrating stop/starts, and upgrading their HANA database. The solution was implemented in just 21 days without disrupting production. As a result, Spot helped Petabyte's customer achieve an infrastructure cost reduction of over 65%, saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars over five years.

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