Mike Bergfors, Director of Operations at New Context, used nOps to perform an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) as an experiment. In hours instead of weeks, Mike’s self-guided WAFR revealed opportunities for enhancing cost optimization, including improved utilization of resources, terminating zombie instances, and optimization of EBS volumes that he and the engineering staff had been unable to locate. In his first analysis using nOps, Mike found 15% in AWS cost savings. With the details that nOps uncovered, Mike realized that 99.7% of unexplained costs were caused by unattached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes, of which most were 8GB Linux-based installs.

To remediate these high costs, New Context moved orphaned projects to Amazon S3 Glacier for low-cost archiving and removed eight workloads that were zombie instances.

Minimizing overhead while maximizing efficiency is the optimum balance for any company. nOps gave New Context both by exposing hidden AWS costs and saving weeks of labor-intensive account analysis for Mike, which contributed to improved operational efficiency.

Impressed with nOps’s capabilities, New Context plans to use nOps to provide their customers with security sweeps of their infrastructure and remediation services based on nOps’s findings. “It gives us another arrow in our quiver for MSP services,” said Mike Bergfors, Director of Operations at New Context.