Case Study: PlanetScale achieves best-in-class cloud cost maturity with Vantage

PlanetScale cuts manual cloud cost reporting from monthly starting over with Vantage

PlanetScale, a cloud-based MySQL database platform, faced a challenge in accurately allocating its significant cloud infrastructure costs. The manual process of pulling data and building reports from scratch for monthly financial reporting was time-consuming and unsustainable for its engineering team, limiting the granularity of cost data used for strategic decisions.

Vantage provided a solution by centralizing PlanetScale's cloud cost data into a shared source of truth. The platform integrated with the company's existing tools like Terraform and Kubernetes, allowing engineering to define tagging and allocation in code and extract granular cost metrics. As a result, PlanetScale can now evaluate product and customer margins with precision, justify investments with real-time data, and significantly reduce the engineering overhead required to support finance, running part of its business from the data generated in Vantage.

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