How Axify cut its AWS bill by 23% in less than a month
For a growing SaaS company, cloud costs do not necessarily increase because of one big decision. Infrastructure evolves. New services are added, experiments come and go, migrations leave resources behind and yesterday’s architecture does not always reflect today’s needs.
That was the situation at Axify, Nexapp’s engineering analytics platform.
As its AWS environment grew, Axify began questioning whether its infrastructure costs were justified by the level of resiliency it was delivering. The team wanted to simplify its technology stack, eliminate unnecessary AWS services and resources, and make sure its cloud environment remained aligned with the needs of the product.
The challenge was finding those opportunities without spending valuable engineering time digging through AWS cost data.
With Stable, Axify gained continuous visibility across 350,000 AWS resources and a prioritized view of where action could have the greatest impact. Stable surfaced unused and underused resources, storage optimization opportunities, potential AWS Savings Plans savings and AWS Extended Support risks, helping the team separate quick wins from longer-term infrastructure improvements.
The impact was immediate: Axify reduced its AWS bill by 23% in less than one month, saving thousands of dollars. The team also achieved a 65% reduction across Amazon S3 storage, VPNs, networks, databases and unused resources.
More importantly, Axify now has a repeatable way to keep AWS costs visible as the product evolves, without requiring a dedicated FinOps or DevOps resource to continuously investigate cloud spending.
See how Axify built a leaner AWS environment with Unicorne and Stable.