Case Study: Avalara achieves 500% ROI and cloud cost savings with Stacklet

Avalara Unlocks Cloud Savings and Improves Engineer Experience With Automated Cost Governance

Avalara, a tax automation software provider, saw its cloud usage and costs surge dramatically during the pandemic. Their existing FinOps program struggled to scale, leading to a large backlog of optimization tasks, a lack of timely alerts, and disconnected manual workflows that frustrated developers. They turned to the Stacklet Platform for a solution.

By implementing the Stacklet Platform, which is based on the Cloud Custodian open-source project, Avalara automated governance and cost optimization policies. This provided proactive insights, streamlined developer-centric workflows, and delivered high-quality data via Stacklet AssetDB. The results were a 500% return on investment within the first few months, a 2% reduction in average daily cloud costs, and significantly improved operational efficiency and collaboration between teams.

Avalara

Lindbergh Matillano

Director Cloud Cost Optimization