How Cloud Cost Observability helped LambdaTest Achieve a 30% Reduction in NAT and Cloudwatch Costs
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LambdaTest is a continuous quality testing cloud platform that helps developers and testers ship code faster. Its browser & app testing cloud allows users to run both manual and automated tests of web and mobile apps across 3000+ different browsers, real devices, and operating system environments.
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Key Features
Aggregated Billing/Multi-Cloud, Bootstrapping cloud cost observability, Anomaly monitoring, Cloud Optimization
Introduction
The cross-browser testing tool market has witnessed a surge owing to the prevalence of web functionality across various browsers and devices. In order to support this growth, the need for robust cloud infrastructure is surfacing now more than ever. There is an imminent need to provide a scalable platform that enables testing teams to execute tests across multiple browsers simultaneously without complex setups. These tools rely on cloud platforms for flexibility, real-time collaboration, and integration with development tools, accelerating testing cycles and improving quality. LambdaTest is one of the leading players in this market, and the growth and surge in their customer base demanded a deeper look into their cloud infrastructure and the need to understand their cloud bills better.
Challenges Faced
As the adoption of their product grew, the engineering teams at LambdaTest were faced with a new challenge, bringing a unified view into their cloud costs. This meant being able to provide their teams with a single solution that aggregated costs across the latitude of cloud services they were using, and then potentially identified anti-patterns in their spends. This was critical to prevent costs from bloating and keeping their infrastructure running more efficiently. Successful cloud cost optimization was paramount to keep up with their growth. Amnic was brought in as a viable solution to deliver continuous cloud cost observability and help the team.
“As customer adoption grew, a key focus area for Lambdatest was the ability to look at their overall cloud costs. Gaining an overall perspective into our cloud spends became the need of the hour. The increasing prevalence of cost observability led us to explore how solutions like Amnic can easily integrate into our existing workflows and provide the necessary visibility as well as areas for optimization.”
Mayank Bhola
Co-Founder & Head of Products, LambdaTest
Solution
LambdaTest engaged with Amnic in a POC and very soon moved into the Enterprise Plan. The breadth of Amnic’s features were extensively explored by the team, soon identifying opportunities to optimize their infrastructure. Among the several optimization exercises that LambdaTest engaged in, two standout features were:
Optimization of Network Costs Through Better Visualization: Leveraging Amnic’s platform provided LambdaTest with enhanced visualization tools, allowing them to gain deeper insights into network usage patterns and identify opportunities for optimization.
Identifying Opportunities to Lower Bills Such as CloudWatch Costs: Observability across services beyond the cost visibility provided by native tools allowed LambdaTest to map onto their CloudWatch expenses. Amnic was pivotal in identifying costs and recommending strategies to reduce overall costs.
Results
30% Reduction in NAT Costs
30% Reduction in CloudWatch Costs
The proactive optimization measures, guided by Amnic's expertise, resulted in a remarkable 30% reduction in Network Address Translation (NAT) expenses for Lambdatest.By leveraging Amnic's recommendations, Lambdatest achieved a notable 30% reduction in CloudWatch expenses, demonstrating the effectiveness of the implemented strategies.
“Amnic’s astute recommendation engine helped us reduce our cloud bill through optimization of network and cloudwatch costs. A key differentiator for Amnic remains its strong team which has channelized its significant experience in building a product uniquely suited to address pain points of fast growing companies.”
Mayank Bhola
Co-Founder & Head of Products, LambdaTest
LambdaTest was a mountain mover in efficiently implementing cloud cost observability and demonstrating the impact of having 360-degree view across their cloud spends. Along with the necessary tools to optimize their cloud costs, today LambdaTest is able to successfully run a lean and efficient cloud infrastructure.
