Case Study: Ticketmaster achieves 66% cloud cost savings and accelerated AWS adoption with Spot

Significantly Reduce Costs And Time Management In Kubernetes With Spotinst

Ticketmaster, a leading global ticket sales company, needed to scale its infrastructure on Amazon Web Services to handle massive, spiky demand while keeping costs and operational overhead down. To automate instance and pod scaling, integrate with their existing CI/CD (Terraform, GitLab CI), and maintain SLA-backed availability, Ticketmaster turned to Spot and its Elastigroup solution for managing EC2 Spot, On‑Demand and Reserved capacity in Kubernetes environments.

Spot’s Elastigroup automated pod-driven autoscaling, predicted Spot behavior, and handled graceful workload migration (including up to 15-minute warnings), freeing developers from cluster management and preserving availability. The solution integrated with Ticketmaster’s workflows, enabled smarter instance selection (Tetris and Smart Scaling Down), and delivered significant savings—reducing AWS operating costs by about 66%—while improving resource allocation and developer productivity.

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