Driving Change, Delivering Value for Reed Online

Reed Online is the UK’s leading recruitment website and the world’s largest family-run recruitment agency, serving approximately 19,000 recruiters annually* and posting job vacancies across a wide spectrum of sectors. With over 155,000 training courses offered** and almost 80,000 job applications processed daily***, Reed Online is a pivotal platform for 11 million people seeking career advancement or training opportunities each year.

For over two decades, Ensono has developed an enduring partnership with Reed Online, evolving from hosting their website and business applications in our data centers to a strategic migration to AWS in 2017, marking a significant step forward in our ongoing collaboration.

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.

Building on a partnership spanning over two decades, Ensono adeptly addressed this challenge by securing a private pricing agreement (PPA) with AWS for Reed Online. This agreement not only increased discounts on their AWS expenditure, which included reserved instances and savings plans, but also reinforced Ensono’s commitment to cloud optimization.

As a mature Cloud Native organization, Reed Online recognizes Ensono as a unique managed service provider capable of supporting their innovative business application development.

With proactive, automated, and expert recommendations, Ensono Envision® Advisor optimizes costs, enhances performance, strengthens security compliance, and ensures efficient capacity management. This comprehensive approach empowers Reed Online to maintain their competitive edge and invest in future innovations.

The tailored AWS solutions and Ensono’s expert management yielded a significant reduction in costs, with Reed Online saving 30% per year on AWS consumption. This was achieved through strategic optimizations, savings plans, and the new AWS pricing agreement.

These savings are crucial for Reed Online to maintain their competitive edge and fund further innovations. Moreover, the consistent availability and reliability of their website ensure that recruiters and candidates have full, uninterrupted access, while the enhanced stability and performance of their AWS-hosted services contribute to superior service delivery to their users.