A major retail enterprise was spending $8M annually on AWS with no visibility into waste. Virtasant delivered 52% savings in 3 weeks.
Cost Reduction
The retailer had grown their AWS footprint organically over 5 years. Multiple teams provisioned resources independently, resulting in massive over-provisioning, idle resources, and no centralized cost management. Monthly AWS bill: $670K and growing 15% quarter-over-quarter.
Virtasant deployed Helias for full infrastructure visibility, then systematically executed optimizations: right-sizing 200+ EC2 instances, eliminating idle resources, implementing reserved capacity strategy, and re-architecting key workloads for containers. All changes were validated with zero-downtime deployments.
52% cost reduction achieved in 3 weeks with zero performance impact. Annual savings of $4.2M. Ongoing Helias monitoring ensures savings persist and grow. The engagement paid for itself in the first week.
Cost Reduction
Annual Savings
Time to Value
Downtime Events
“Virtasant didn’t just find the waste — they fixed it. In three weeks, our cloud bill dropped by 52% with zero impact on performance.”
VP of Infrastructure
Fortune 500 Retailer
52%
Cost Reduction
$4.2M
Annual Savings
3 weeks
Time to Value
