Cloud Cost Optimization Funds Innovation for Leading Recruitment Platform

This client is a leading job listings website. It serves approximately 30,000 recruiters annually, processes almost 100,000 job applications per day, and offers over 70,000 training courses.

This platform opens new doors for 11 million people seeking career advancement or training opportunities each year.

Over two decades, Ensono has developed an enduring partnership with this client, evolving from hosting their website and business applications in our data centers, to managing a strategic migration to AWS in 2017, a significant step forward in our ongoing collaboration.

The COVID lockdown restrictions had a severe impact on the global recruitment market, leading to fewer job openings and causing many candidates to stay in their current positions.

Afterwards, the pent-up demand for recruitment services and the increase in remote and hybrid working allowed the client to rapidly scale its services, offering an even wider range of career placements and training.

The client maintains strict cost governance as it seeks to deliver the highest levels of customer service while meeting its business objectives. It wanted visibility into, and avenues to reduce, cloud costs.

Ensono accepted the challenge and quickly secured a private pricing agreement (PPA) with AWS on behalf the client. This not only discounted their AWS expenditure, which included reserved instances and savings plans, but also reinforced Ensono’s commitment to cloud cost optimization.

We also deployed Ensono Envision® Advisor, an innovative tool that facilitates a 360-degree view of AWS environments, enabling timely and informed decisions.  By providing proactive recommendations, the tool enables the client to optimize costs and resources, enhance performance, and improve compliance.

The tailored AWS solutions and Ensono’s management yielded a significant reduction in costs, enabling the client to save £350,000 on AWS consumption. This was achieved through strategic optimizations, savings plans, and the new AWS pricing agreement. These savings will be reinvested, enabling the client to maintain its competitive digital edge.

The consistent availability and reliability of its website ensure that recruiters and candidates alike have full, uninterrupted access to job listings, all backed by the enhanced stability and performance of AWS-hosted services.