Case Study: SkyBox eliminates wasted Reserved Instance costs and maximizes EC2 savings with Spotinst Eco (Spot)

SkyBox Optimizes Their RI LifeCycle Management with Spotinst Eco

SkyBox is a cross‑border shopping facilitator that runs a complex logistics and tracking stack on AWS EC2. To handle seasonal demand they moved many deployments to Reserved Instances (RIs) but found calculating RI break‑even, keeping RIs fully utilized, and managing 1–3 year lock‑ins to be onerous for their DevOps and finance teams. Seeking a quick, low‑overhead fix, SkyBox engaged Spot and its Spotinst Eco product to address RI lifecycle management.

Spot implemented Spotinst Eco to visualize RI utilization, apply ML‑driven demand forecasting, automatically rebalance RIs to match running EC2 instances, and buy/sell RIs on the AWS Marketplace. The result was elimination of unused RIs, greater engineering freedom to scale EC2, improved financial visibility, and zero distractions for the cloud team — delivering measurable savings (case study figures shown as $63,806 and $467,157) and ongoing optimization of RI spend.

SkyBox

Emilio Lizarraga

VP of IT