During the pandemic, ErosSTX Global needed to cut AWS costs as revenues declined and film production slowed, so it partnered with Synoptek for AWS cost optimization and managed services. Synoptek assessed the AWS environment for security, reliability, usage, and spend, ran Well-Architected reviews, and prioritized changes for maximum business impact. The team improved security with added controls, stronger logging, anomaly detection and threat intelligence, then reduced costs by consolidating and decommissioning resources, using Infrastructure as Code and elastic compute to scale with demand, and analyzing pricing models to recommend commitment discounts and governance. The effort reduced AWS spend by over 70% per month.

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