Manufacturing and logisticsCloud and FinOps
Cutting a logistics platform's cloud bill 34% while improving on-time tracking
Northwind ran a fast-growing freight tracking platform on infrastructure that had outgrown its design. Synabix replatformed it and put a real cost habit in place.
34%
lower monthly cloud spend (from $96k to $63k)
99.96%
platform availability, up from 99.4%
11x
faster deploys, from weekly to multiple per day
The challenge
Where they started.
Northwind's shipment tracking platform was growing 20% quarter on quarter, but the monthly cloud bill was growing faster, and nobody could explain it. Oversized instances, idle environments, and a tangle of one-off scripts made every release risky. A renewal deadline forced a decision.
The stack
AWSKubernetesTerraformKafkaAurora PostgreSQLGrafana
What we did
- A two week assessment mapped every workload, dependency, and cost driver, and found that 38% of spend was idle or oversized capacity.
- We designed an AWS landing zone with clear accounts, networking, and tagging, then replatformed services in five reversible waves.
- The hottest paths moved to managed and event-driven services so the platform scaled with shipment volume instead of running hot all day.
- We stood up a FinOps cadence: rightsizing, committed-use coverage, budget alerts, and a monthly review the finance team actually joins.
More work
Other engagements.
Lower cost, lower risk, one partner
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