How a SaaS data management company slashed AWS EKS costs by 58%

A rapidly expanding SaaS data management firm, experiencing a surge in service adoption, adopted an aggressive cloud-native approach by transitioning their main SaaS application to run on Kubernetes in Amazon EKS. This move not only accelerated feature development but also increased cloud expenses, with Kubernetes constituting about 50% of their multimillion-dollar AWS costs. Even with the surge in usage, the budget remained unchanged due to economic constraints.