How Armis Saves 53% Annually
on AWS EC2
We were manually managing our RI’s on a daily basis, which took a lot of time and effort from the team that was already busy enough with ongoing development projects.
With simple integration and zero effort from our side, we were able to cut down our EC2 costs by more than 53%.
Zesty makes sure to maximize our savings without any intervention from our side, and thanks to that, our team can permanently check commitment management off their task list!
Customer
Brief
Armis® is the leading agentless, enterprise-class device security platform designed to address the new threat landscape of unmanaged and IoT devices.
Fortune 1000 companies trust their real-time and continuous protection to see and control all managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices – from traditional devices like laptops and smartphones to new smart devices like smart TVs, webcams, printers, HVAC systems, industrial control systems, and PLCs, medical devices and more. Armis provides passive and unparalleled cybersecurity asset management, risk management, and automated enforcement.
The company was recently acquired by Insight Partners at a valuation of $1.1 billion.
Key
Challenges
Armis’ cloud environment is constantly scaling. They were looking for a solution that would automatically manage their commitments in real-time and relieve them from manual forecasting.
Key
Results
Armis’ engineers can take cost optimization off their to-do list while reducing their EC2 spend by 53%.
The Challenge:
Fast-growing cybersecurity startup, Armis grew by 200% in just a short period of time. But as they continued to scale rapidly, managing cloud costs became a tremendous challenge. With thousands of instances running on AWS to support a massive data pipeline, which produced around 10 billion events per day, their resource needs were in constant fluctuation, which made predicting costs incredibly difficult. On top of that, the company was constantly investing in new and innovative technologies to drive product innovation. But with each new technology comes changes in application needs, which resulted in even less predictability, and increased costs.
As a SaaS company, Armis’s end customers directly impacted their cloud infrastructure.This meant, Armis’s engineers needed to constantly sync between the business side and the development side to manually manage their commitment portfolio. Roi Amitay, Head of DevOps, knew this approach was not scalable or sustainable.
He noticed that EC2 was the main culprit of the company’s growing cloud bill. Their dynamic nature made them unable to commit to Reserved Instances, which would provide them with the steep discount they needed. Furthermore, in the areas where they did leverage Reserved Instances, the coverage was not optimal. Armis needed a solution that:
- Would enable them to leverage savings despite their dynamic environment
- Provided true flexibility, no commitment necessary
- Adapts to changes in scale
- Was easy to implement and completely effortless to run
That’s where Zesty came in.
Zesty’s Solution:
After implementing Zesty, Armis was able to save 53% on EC2 with zero engineering effort. Was it magic? Well, almost!
Zesty’s advanced machine learning algorithms analyzed both Armis’s account’s usage and the RI Marketplace behavior in real time. This enabled Zesty to completely automate the full cycle of their RI fleet. As a result, our algorithms could account for both the company’s scale along with the marketplace fluctuations and adjust them accordingly.
The Result:
The result was tremendous discounts on EC2, with no effort whatsoever. Most importantly, it enabled Armis to run their business at any scale, without wasting precious engineering resources on forecasting, predicting, and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Instantly grab the most lucrative deals on the RI Marketplace
- Increase RI coverage from 45% to 99.99%
- Use real-time prediction to eliminate manual forecasting for good
- Continuously optimize savings according to real-time application needs
Best of all, Zesty’s risk-free buy back guarantee and easy implementation made getting started a no brainer.
But don’t take our word for it. Get the real story directly from Roi Amitay to learn how Armis saved 53% with zero engineering effort. Check out the video here!
Customer
Brief
Armis® is the leading agentless, enterprise-class device security platform designed to address the new threat landscape of unmanaged and IoT devices.
Fortune 1000 companies trust their real-time and continuous protection to see and control all managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices – from traditional devices like laptops and smartphones to new smart devices like smart TVs, webcams, printers, HVAC systems, industrial control systems, and PLCs, medical devices and more. Armis provides passive and unparalleled cybersecurity asset management, risk management, and automated enforcement.
The company was recently acquired by Insight Partners at a valuation of $1.1 billion.
Key
Challenges
Armis’ cloud environment is constantly scaling. They were looking for a solution that would automatically manage their commitments in real-time and relieve them from manual forecasting.
Key
Results
Armis’ engineers can take cost optimization off their to-do list while reducing their EC2 spend by 53%.
We were manually managing our RI’s on a daily basis, which took a lot of time and effort from the team that was already busy enough with ongoing development projects.
Fast-growing cybersecurity startup, Armis grew by 200% in just a short period of time. But as they continued to scale rapidly, managing cloud costs became a tremendous challenge. With thousands of instances running on AWS to support a massive data pipeline, which produced around 10 billion events per day, their resource needs were in constant fluctuation, which made predicting costs incredibly difficult. On top of that, the company was constantly investing in new and innovative technologies to drive product innovation. But with each new technology comes changes in application needs, which resulted in even less predictability, and increased costs.
As a SaaS company, Armis’s end customers directly impacted their cloud infrastructure.This meant, Armis’s engineers needed to constantly sync between the business side and the development side to manually manage their commitment portfolio. Roi Amitay, Head of DevOps, knew this approach was not scalable or sustainable.
He noticed that EC2 was the main culprit of the company’s growing cloud bill. Their dynamic nature made them unable to commit to Reserved Instances, which would provide them with the steep discount they needed. Furthermore, in the areas where they did leverage Reserved Instances, the coverage was not optimal. Armis needed a solution that:
- Would enable them to leverage savings despite their dynamic environment
- Provided true flexibility, no commitment necessary
- Adapts to changes in scale
- Was easy to implement and completely effortless to run
That’s where Zesty came in.
With simple integration and zero effort from our side, we were able to cut down our EC2 costs by more than 53%.
After implementing Zesty, Armis was able to save 53% on EC2 with zero engineering effort. Was it magic? Well, almost!
Zesty’s advanced machine learning algorithms analyzed both Armis’s account’s usage and the RI Marketplace behavior in real time. This enabled Zesty to completely automate the full cycle of their RI fleet. As a result, our algorithms could account for both the company’s scale along with the marketplace fluctuations and adjust them accordingly.
The result was tremendous discounts on EC2, with no effort whatsoever. Most importantly, it enabled Armis to run their business at any scale, without wasting precious engineering resources on forecasting, predicting, and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Instantly grab the most lucrative deals on the RI Marketplace
- Increase RI coverage from 45% to 99.99%
- Use real-time prediction to eliminate manual forecasting for good
- Continuously optimize savings according to real-time application needs
Best of all, Zesty’s risk-free buy back guarantee and easy implementation made getting started a no brainer.
But don’t take our word for it. Get the real story directly from Roi Amitay to learn how Armis saved 53% with zero engineering effort. Check out the video here!
Zesty makes sure to maximize our savings without any intervention from our side, and thanks to that, our team can permanently check commitment management off their task list!
"Our cloud ROI has greatly improved since using Zesty and these improvements could not be achieved through our efforts alone.”
Yonatan Deshel
CTO
“It’s completely hands-free and we save 40% each month on our On-Demand costs”
Yair Leshem
DevOps Engineer
“The model is very transparent. The more we save, the more commission Zesty get for it, and that's something that works for us.”
Kinga Otffinowska
Engineering Manager at Bryter
