How Raptive proactively prevents AWS RDS extended support costs
- 37 databases
- automatically covered across all AWS regions, and counting
- ~$10k/year
- annual extended support costs prevented
One Data is a German software company and a European leader in data product management. With the first available AI-powered Data Product Builder, One Data redefines the development of data products, specifically designed for innovative and collaborative data teams. This enables such teams to create and use comprehensive data products, establish a data-driven culture, and unlock the full potential of data. Data products built in One Data transform raw data into actionable insights, empowering businesses to make informed decisions, optimize processes, and drive innovation.
One Data trusted development teams to open new cloud accounts themselves, creating decentralized shadow IT with limited central oversight, budget controls, and policy enforcement. Inconsistent billing constructs across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure made it difficult to normalize spend, compare usage, and allocate costs to customers. The company lacked proper budget planning capability and cost warnings.
One Data implemented DoiT Cloud Intelligence as a single source of truth to centralize governance and visibility across all cloud accounts. The platform provided policy guardrails, role-based access controls, real-time cost visualization, automated reporting, Flexsave for Compute savings, and Real-Time Anomaly Detection. DoiT also helped establish standardized identity and access management across all cloud environments.
With our accounts aggregated in the DoiT console, it is much easier to compare invoices between cloud providers and identify the resources we are using, instance by instance, customer by customer.
Christoph Buchner, Team Lead IT – Admins & Cloud Services at One Data
One Data began working with DoiT in 2022 on its AWS and Google Cloud accounts to centralize governance and visibility in DoiT Cloud Intelligence. With numerous standalone accounts across the two providers, One Data first had to locate all the accounts and then bring them together in one centralized location: the DoiT Cloud Intelligence as a single source of truth. This gave the company a single point of access to visualize and manage all its cloud accounts. It also provided policy guardrails and role-based access through DoiT Cloud Intelligence to ensure each account was properly controlled, with clear responsibility for each, along with central oversight.
One Data can now use the console to manage all its cloud accounts in one place and gain a real-time, shared view of costs and allocations. With accounts aggregated with DoiT, it is much easier to compare invoices between the different cloud providers and identify the resources being used, instance by instance, customer by customer. The team can also use Allocations to map spend to particular accounts and resources, and then use the console to generate automated reports to help departments across the business visualize cloud expenditure.
With this level of insight into its cloud costs, One Data now manages its resource usage on an ongoing basis to keep its costs under control. It can also use Cloud Analytics within the DoiT console to forecast upcoming cloud expenditure and understand the impact of its cost-management measures. One Data also uses DoiT Flexsave for Compute to help reduce its AWS bill, capturing commitment-free savings by automatically applying discounted rates to eligible EC2 workloads. With Real-Time Anomaly Detection, meanwhile, One Data can quickly spot unexpected spend spikes and act proactively to reconfigure services before costs accumulate.
Since working with DoiT, One Data's approach to cloud governance not only covers FinOps, but also extends to standardized identity and access management (IAM) and user lifecycle management for all its cloud accounts. Previously, with developers setting up their own accounts, certain accounts were difficult to find, while others were difficult to access once those developers left, taking their access credentials with them. With DoiT's help, One Data is following best practices in terms of access controls, account administration, and user lifecycle management.
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