FinanceCore
Fintech & Payment Processing
How a fintech startup achieved 82% cost reduction using spot instances and rightsizing while maintaining strict compliance and improving system reliability.
Key Results
About FinanceCore
FinanceCore is a fast-growing fintech startup providing payment processing and financial management tools for SMBs. Founded in 2022, they needed to optimize costs while scaling and maintaining strict financial compliance requirements.
Platform Metrics
The Challenge
As a fintech startup, FinanceCore faced the dual challenge of aggressive cost optimization while maintaining strict regulatory compliance. Their AWS infrastructure costs were growing faster than revenue, threatening their path to profitability.
Key Challenges
- High AWS costs eating into runway
- Can't risk downtime due to compliance
- Over-provisioned for security
- Manual scaling causing waste
Monthly AWS Costs
The Solution
DeepCost implemented a compliance-aware optimization strategy, leveraging spot instances for non-critical workloads while maintaining on-demand instances for compliance-sensitive operations.
Spot Instance Strategy
- • 75% of batch processing on spots
- • Analytics workloads optimized
- • Automated failover to on-demand
- • Compliance workloads protected
Compliance Optimization
- • PCI DSS compliant rightsizing
- • SOC 2 audit trail maintained
- • Encrypted storage optimization
- • Network security preserved
Smart Rightsizing
- • Machine learning-based sizing
- • Performance-aware scaling
- • Cost-performance optimization
- • Automated recommendations
Detailed Results
Total Cost Reduction
Spot Instance Adoption
Compliance Violations
System Reliability
"DeepCost helped us achieve dramatic cost savings without compromising on compliance or reliability. The spot instance strategy alone saved us over $1.5M annually while actually improving our system performance."