Kubernetes / EKS

Academia.edu is a global research platform used by researchers, scholars, and students to share and discover academic work. As the platform scaled, the company needed to modernize its AWS infrastructure while maintaining control over cloud costs. By partnering with nOps, Academia.edu gained the flexibility to optimize cloud spending without over-committing during its transition to Kubernetes.

Kubernetes / EKS

Arlo, a leader in connected smart home security, needed a more effective way to understand and control its growing cloud costs. Leadership sought granular visibility into Kubernetes (EKS) usage, the ability to allocate spend across teams and product lines, and actionable insights to reduce waste.

Business Contexts

Enter, a Sequoia-backed Brazilian startup building collaborative developer tools, is growing rapidly across AWS and OpenAI. As their use of GenAI grew for document processing and experimentation, they faced growing cloud spend, especially related to OpenAI usage, without a dedicated cloud economics team.

Cloud Management

Rose Rocket powers high-throughput transportation management software and has recently expanded its use of GenAI to support internal tools and customer-facing features. As their usage of foundation models increased, particularly across OpenAI and AWS Bedrock providers, they encountered new challenges: opaque billing, unpredictable performance, and difficulty evaluating which models were truly delivering the best value. While the team had visibility into total spend, they lacked insight into token-level efficiency, latency across model providers, and the impact of different AI model choices on both cost and experience.

Kubernetes / EKS

Rose Rocket powers high-throughput transportation management software on Amazon EKS, handling a wide mix of real-time services and ephemeral jobs. This mix created substantial challenges when trying to balance performance, availability, and cost, especially as traffic patterns fluctuated throughout the day.

Cloud Management

Automatiq is a mission-critical technology leader that enables resellers to leverage best-of-breed technologies across the live event ticketing ecosystem. As the only end-to-end solution in the secondary ticket market, Automatiq integrates dynamic pricing, processing, consignment, distribution, and analytics, offering unmatched value to both professional resellers and individual users.

Compute Copilot

iSpot is a leader in real-time TV ad measurement that helps major advertisers connect TV impressions to business outcomes. Trusted by over 400 brands, agencies, and TV networks, the acceleration in size and complexity of iSpot’s cloud infrastructure led to challenges with AWS cost visibility and allocation. By leveraging nOps Business Contexts Plus (BC+), iSpot transformed its approach to AWS spend management, gaining detailed insights and precisely aligning costs with customer activity. This shift enabled iSpot to achieve its financial reporting goals and optimize costs across its rapidly scaling infrastructure.

Compute Copilot

CommentSold is a turnkey, video-first platform featuring a robust suite of tools, including live selling, shoppable clips, AI-driven video generation, and comprehensive inventory and returns management. As a rapidly growing startup, CommentSold encountered the need to manage and optimize their AWS costs effectively. Their reliance on On-Demand instances resulted in higher monthly expenses, and the team sought alignment on cost-saving strategies while balancing concerns about long-term commitments. AWS recommended nOps to CommentSold, which provided a seamless and effective solution.

Business Contexts

Kurtosys is a leading provider of reporting and digital experience solutions for the investment management industry. They specialize in enhancing the customer experience across the investor lifecycle. From best-in-class fund centers, sales presentations, fund factsheets, client reports and secure client portals, Kurtosys helps deliver insights reliably and at scale. Kurtosys’ secure cloud-based platform is trusted by both medium and large investment managers and fund administrators world-wide.

Compute Copilot

BENlabs is an entertainment marketing company with purpose-built AI tech designed to help brands and creators interpret data from the places where their target audiences are engaged most – entertainment and social media platforms -- to increase the impact of their content and campaigns. The company has a dedicated team of data scientists and engineers working to build impactful AI solutions. However, rapid growth and data consumption led to a significant increase in AWS cloud costs, necessitating a robust cost management solution.

Business Contexts

Mobileum is a leading provider of analytics solutions for telecom operators worldwide. With a focus on roaming, security and risk management, revenue assurance, and customer experience, Mobileum enables telecom companies to leverage data and analytics to drive smarter decisions and more effective operations. Mobileum is recognized for its ability to extract network and customer insights and convert them into real-time actions to improve operational efficiency and ensure seamless connectivity. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Mobileum has global offices in Belgium, Dubai, Germany, India, Portugal, Singapore and the UK.

Compute Copilot

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.

Business Contexts

VERMEG is a leading provider of software solutions to the worldwide financial services industry, specializing in asset and liability management, regulatory reporting, and digital transformation. VERMEG has offices in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia and the United States.

Commitment Management

FC2, Inc. provides a number of services, ranging from website and blog hosting to apps and services to help you grow your web presence. Managing FC2's dynamic AWS infrastructure to support resource-intensive simulations was becoming increasingly complex and costly. They struggled to optimize AWS EC2 commitments while scaling resources for On-Demand workloads. This led to overspending on the cloud during usage spikes. FC2 also found many idle resources were being underutilized or left running unnecessarily.

Cloud Management

Cargo Chief, a leading logistics and transportation management company, redefining the freight brokerage landscape. Their C4 procurement and automation platform simplifies the carrier sourcing and booking workflow and provides customers with the most current and accurate data in the industry.

Commitment Management

Commitment Management

Working Group Two (WG2) was incubated inside the Telenor Group, one of the world's largest telecom operators. In 2013, a team of software engineers started work on innovating new products closely associated with subscriptions offered by operators. They quickly found that building such products was more complicated and costly than it should be, and that scaling them across the network was prohibitively expensive and complex.

Commitment Management

SignalFire is the first venture capital firm built like a technology company to better solve for the needs of founders. The core of its value-add is Beacon, the AI engine SignalFire has been refining since the firm’s launch in 2013. Beacon tracks more than 495 million employees and 80 million companies to guide the fund’s investing and assist portfolio companies with scaling their teams and revenue. SignalFire also helps early-stage founders navigate the toughest parts of building a company at every stage, with expert advisors, 200 skill-building workshops a year, and an in-house team of recruiters, data scientists, PR experts and go-to-market leaders. With over $1.8 billion in assets under management, SignalFire focuses on investing from seed to scale. The firm’s key sectors include AI/ML, developer tools, B2B Saas, healthcare, cybersecurity, and consumer.

Cloud Management

Camlin Group is a diversified engineering company based in Northern Ireland, with operations in power generation, environmental services, and construction. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Camlin Group is a leading provider of construction, engineering, and maintenance services in the United Kingdom. They have a reputation for quality, innovation, and reliability across their diverse range of operations.

Well-Architected

Stratpoint is a leading software company that has been at the forefront of accelerating digital transformation for businesses globally for over 20 years. Its goal is to enable businesses to innovate at speed and ensure their success at every stage of their journey. Headquartered in Mandaluyong City, Philippines, they specialize in agile software development, managed QA, cloud, data, and AI. Their elite team of technology leaders rapidly adapts to the ever-changing demands of businesses, delivering enterprise-grade solutions to their clients.

Cloud Management

Mode2 is a consulting and cloud services partner that helps U.S. companies to extract the maximum value from cloud-native computing and digital transformation. Their experts coach clients to achieve new levels of success through the cloud adoption lifecycle, driving programs that place people at the core of the business change. Mode2 is an Advanced Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, and a Standard Consulting Partner for Google Cloud.

Cloud Management

Verse is a mobile- and web-based referral platform designed to engage and convert inbound leads into qualified, sales-ready opportunities by providing its unique blend of 2-way SMS, AI-driven follow-up, and highly trained reps. After powering many millions of conversations, they made the decision to expand outside of the real estate and mortgage industries to include thousands of mortgage professionals, teams, brokerages, companies, leading search portals, CRMs, and others.

Cloud Management

Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) is part of the pace-setting American multinational ride-hailing company. Its mission is to introduce self-driving technology to the worldwide Uber network and transport people and goods more safely, efficiently, and affordably. In early 2021, Uber ATG was acquired by Aurora, an autonomous vehicle company.

Cloud Management

Valcann is a provider of cloud professional services and a Select Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network. It specializes in cloud operations including AWS managed services, monitoring, operating systems, database administration, SysOps and DevOps architectures, and on-call support. They are an AWS Authorized Commercial Reseller and AWS Public Sector Partner. As an nOps Partner, Valcann benefits from collaboration on training, support, and marketing.

Cloud Management

In today’s market, a company developing and implementing data and analytics workloads is not unique. What makes iOLAP unique is that it has been hyperfocused on data and analytics workloads for the past twenty years. Their mission is to help clients drive innovation by applying new analytical technology and capabilities to unlock the value of their data.

Cloud Management

Innovative virtual event provider boosts security compliance, achieves cost-savings bonus.

Cloud Management

Yewno, a disruptor in the global information industry, provides augmented intelligence to finance, education, publishing, government, and life sciences organizations. Their platform extracts knowledge from a massive quantity of unstructured and structured data by using state-of-the-art computational linguistics, network theory, machine learning, and methods from classical artificial intelligence. Yewno’s core AI technology converts unstructured data into structured analytics, actions, and new insights.

Cloud Management

Grupo JCPM is a Brazilian business group and media conglomerate. It invests in shopping malls, develops real estate projects, and runs a multimedia communication system that delivers up-to-date news and entertainment. Grupo JCPM is well known in northeast Brazil for creating the Bompreço supermarket and hypermarket chain and the Hipercard credit card.

Cloud Management

Onriva is an industry-transforming travel platform that is leveraging the latest standards and technologies (NDC), AI, and machine learning to provide a personalized one-stop shopping experience for all travel, including air, hotels, cars, packages, and more.