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TRC Healthcare Leverages nOps for Enhanced AWS Cost Optimization and Scalability

Industry

Healthcare

Location

Denver, Colorado

Challenge

Cost Allocation, Resource Scheduling, and Cost Optimization

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Overview

TRC Healthcare, a leader in providing comprehensive and reliable drug therapy and medication management education, faced the challenge of managing escalating AWS costs while ensuring the efficient operation of their cloud infrastructure. TRC Healthcare sought a solution to optimize their cloud expenses and improve operational efficiency without compromising flexibility.

The Challenge

As TRC Healthcare expanded, managing AWS costs became increasingly complex. It became more difficult to correlate AWS costs with usage due to AWS’s complex reporting structure. They were also looking for a reliable way to schedule resources such as Elasticsearch, RDS, and EC2 instances to optimize costs was also a significant challenge. Additionally, ensuring efficient use of compute resources while balancing between Spot and On-Demand instances added to the complexity. With a growing team and an evolving infrastructure, TRC Healthcare needed a robust solution that provided real-time visibility, automation, and intelligent recommendations to manage their AWS environment efficiently.

The Solution: nOps Commitment Manager

TRC Healthcare chose nOps for its advanced cloud optimization capabilities, based on a recommendation from AWS. The onboarding process was seamless, allowing TRC Healthcare to quickly integrate nOps into their existing infrastructure. nOps provided the following solutions:

Cost Reporting and Visualization: nOps Business Contexts offered detailed cost reporting and visualization, helping TRC Healthcare’s engineering team understand and manage costs effectively.

Automated Commitment Management: nOps used advanced analytics to recommend optimal RI coverage based on actual usage, allowing TRC Healthcare to benefit from RI discounts without long-term commitments. nOps’ platform enabled TRC Healthcare to pool RIs across accounts and regions, dynamically allocating capacity based on real-time workload demands.

Dynamic Resource Allocation: nOps Compute Copilot automatically optimized TRC Healthcare’s compute resources by balancing workloads between Spot and On-Demand instances. This dynamic adjustment ensured that TRC Healthcare always operated on the most cost-effective instances without compromising performance.

Resource Scheduler: nOps Essentials allowed TRC Healthcare to schedule resources during off hours, further optimizing costs by shutting down non-essential resources when not needed.

Business Impact

Implementing nOps resulted in significant cost savings and operational efficiencies for TRC Healthcare:

AWS Cost Reduction: By leveraging nOps’ automated commitment management, Compute Copilot, and Scheduler, TRC Healthcare significantly reduced its AWS costs.

Improved Transparency and Control: The engineering team gained better visibility into resource utilization and spending through nOps’ detailed reporting and business contexts.

Operational Flexibility: The dynamic allocation of resources and the ability to adjust commitments in real-time allowed TRC Healthcare to maintain flexibility and scalability without incurring additional costs.

Optimized Compute Usage: nOps Compute Copilot ensured efficient use of compute resources, automatically switching between Spot and On-Demand instances to achieve cost savings without sacrificing performance.

Efficient Resource Scheduling: Using nOps Scheduler, TRC Healthcare efficiently managed resource usage during off hours, contributing to additional cost savings.

nOps provided us with the visibility and control we needed to optimize our AWS costs without long-term commitments. Their automated platform, especially Compute Copilot and Scheduler, helped us reduce our On-Demand spend while providing tremendous flexibility. Using nOps has been seamless for us; we test each solution and then roll it out to the team. nOps just works - it does its job in the background, saves us money, and makes it easy to report on. I highly recommend nOps for cloud optimization and managing cloud costs effectively.
Dominic Kaiser, Senior DevOps Engineer, TRC Healthcare

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