Case Study: SmileShark optimizes AWS costs and accelerates growth with Spot CloudCheckr

SmileShark Accelerates Growth and Optimizes Customer Costs with CloudCheckr

SmileShark, a fast-growing managed services startup in South Korea, needed a way to manage AWS billing accurately and help customers optimize cloud costs as it scaled across gaming, startup, SMB, and public sector segments. The company chose Spot’s CloudCheckr CMx to support efficient billing operations and provide better cost allocation and visibility across all AWS regions.

With Spot’s CloudCheckr CMx, SmileShark was able to use features like List Price Translation, Advanced Grouping, Cost Savings reporting, and Reserved Instance purchasing recommendations to optimize customer spend and improve billing accuracy. The results were significant: SmileShark helped customers cut cloud costs by as much as 80% month-over-month, including reducing one gaming customer’s AWS bill from $300,000 to $100,000 and another from $100,000 to $20,000, while also supporting more than 150 AWS customers and continuing to grow rapidly.

SmileShark

Moowon Kim

Global Business Development Manager