Benow: AWS cost optimisation and disaster recovery

Overview

Executive summary

Benow Organization is a tech company in social networking and digital communication, serving millions of users worldwide. It faced rising AWS costs, inefficient resource use and no real disaster recovery plan. Core5, an AWS Partner, optimised Benow's AWS infrastructure.

The challenge

What they were up against

• AWS billing rose because resource usage was unmanaged, especially for Amazon RDS and EC2.
• No cost-optimisation strategy, so expenses kept growing.
• Managing Amazon RDS was becoming expensive and cutting into profitability.
• Many EC2 instances were over-provisioned, adding unnecessary spend.
• A weak disaster-recovery posture risked data loss and downtime.

Our solution

How Core5 approached it

• Analysed database performance and cost drivers, then reallocated underused resources.
• Moved critical databases to Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ for high availability, automatic failover and durability.
• Used AWS Compute Optimizer to right-size EC2 instances for cost efficiency and performance.

Technologies

Technologies used

Results

The outcome