Hi,
It’s Pritesh, Founder of Helyx.
I was reading through a public AWS case study the other day.
One line stopped me cold.
Canva reduced their compute costs by 46%.
Most companies never even get close to that number.
And the best part, they did it without rewriting their entire platform.
Here is what actually happened.
Canva was growing fast. Millions of new users. More features. More traffic.
But their compute resources were all running on expensive, always-on capacity.
Classic On-Demand everything.
Great for convenience. Terrible for cost.
The real problem was simple.
They had a mix of stable workloads and spiky workloads.
But they were paying premium pricing for both.
Then came the shift.
They started using Spot Instances for the flexible parts of their system.
They used Reserved capacity and Savings Plans for the predictable parts.
And they gave every product team visibility into what their features cost to run.
No magic. No secret system.
Just using the right type of compute for the right type of workload.
Top-of-mind cost optimisation beats blind On-Demand usage any day of the week.
If you are THE GUY who knows when to use Spot, when to commit, and when to scale back?
You win.
By default.
Canva did this and saved nearly half of their compute bill.
Real company. Real number. Real result.
You can pull the same levers in your environment.
You just need to know where the money is leaking.
Talk soon,
Pritesh
P.S. At Helyx we do this work for you. We go through your AWS account, find the waste, and clean it up. We guarantee at-least 25% savings or you don’t pay us.
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