Summary
To address rising annual cloud overhead and infrastructure debt caused by rapid scaling, AI-identity platform Hush Security partnered with Automat-it for a comprehensive FinOps audit and architectural refinement. This collaboration optimized Amazon EKS and S3 storage, resulting in a 75% reduction in bucket costs and a total yearly savings of $45,000.
About Hush Security
Hush Security transforms how organizations secure agentic AI and non-human identities by replacing static credentials with identity-based access. Their patent-pending solution surfaces actively exploited credentials, then automatically provisions scoped, just-in-time access controls across your infrastructure.
Hush Security migrates all credential-based access to centralized identity-based governance, without code changes. Learn more about Hush Security at https://www.hush.security/.
The Challenge: Overcoming Startup Scaling Costs
Hush Security faced the classic «startup scaling» dilemma: as their production environment expanded to meet demand, their cloud overhead began to outpace their architectural efficiency.
Specifically, they struggled with:
- Financial Visibility: A lack of granular insight into cloud spend across various AWS services.
- Architectural Inefficiencies: Legacy configurations, such as idle VPC Endpoints and unattached Elastic IPs, were driving up recurring costs.
- Infrastructure Debt: The need for proactive version upgrades, specifically for Amazon EKS, to avoid future extended support charges and performance bottlenecks.
The Solution: FinOps Cost Optimization
First, Automat-it’s team of FinOps conducted a deep-dive audit to identify and eliminate wasted spend.
From this, the experts provided a comprehensive and multi-layered approach to cost optimization that would allow Hush Security to modernize its infrastructure, optimize cost savings, and scale in line with growing user demand by implementing operational excellence.
Key cost optimizations delivered included:
- Architectural Refinement: NAT Gateway Optimization enabled reduced networking costs by re-architecting routing via Private Endpoints and Public IPs.
- Storage Optimization: Adjusted Amazon S3 retention policies to ensure data was managed cost-effectively.
- Resource Cleanup: Identified and removed 15 idle VPC Endpoints and 9 unattached Elastic IPs.
- Proactive Lifecycle Management: Executed an Amazon EKS version upgrade to ensure the startup remained on a supported, secure, and cost-efficient version.
- AWS Reselling Program: Enrolled Hush Security in Automat-it’s reselling program, providing them with immediate base discounts and improved payment terms.
The Results
By partnering with Automat-it, Hush Security successfully optimized its production environment for sustainable growth.
Key Outcomes Included:
- Significant Annual Savings: Achieved a total of $45,000 in annual AWS savings through immediate optimization efforts
- Dramatic Storage Cost Reduction: Reduced specific S3 bucket costs from approximately $600/month to $150/month, a 75% improvement
- Reduced Technical Debt: Proactive EKS upgrades and the removal of idle resources improved overall system stability and security posture
- Marketplace Readiness: Hush Security successfully moved toward a procurement-ready status on the AWS Marketplace, removing friction from their sales cycle
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