Company Overview
Company Size: 500+ Employees
Industry: Telecom/Communication Services
About The Company: The company p rovides wireless broadband solutions and software globally .
The Challenge
The customer felt overwhelmed with their AWS spend after acquiring a company with a higher AWS spend than originally budgeted for.
With the recent acquisition, we were looking for ways to consolidate all our AWS accounts.” – Vice President IT
The telecom company evaluated various partners to support them through the AWS EDP pricing program and uncover the largest discount possible.
Why Crayon
The customer had recently worked with Crayon on a Microsoft EA renewal. The well-maintained relationship positioned Crayon as a multi-cloud expert and advisor for an AWS cost optimization inquiry. Crayon wanted to find the discount they are looking for and in addition bring control and visibility to their future cloud spend.
Solution
Crayon provided premium support, including timely status updates, through the EDP process to find the greatest discount. Crayon did not stop there.
Crayon introduced, Crayon Cloud-iQ, a free self-service platform providing comprehensive live spending reports with flexibility to adjust services and costs as you go. Cloud-iQ provided visibility and control of future cloud spend.
Crayon went above and beyond to ensure the AWS consolidation was completed in a challenging timeframe. Crayon came up with creative ways and beat the Financial targets that we had established for this initiative – Vice President IT
Crayon encouraged the customer to go through an Amazon well-architected framework to uncover additional cost saving. The framework evaluates current infrastructure based on operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
Crayon optimization and monitoring of workloads will currently save the customer $171,000/yr.
Their Account management and Technical support team listened to clearly understand all aspects of our business and delivered a process that fits our business model.
Vice President IT