Problem
One of the largest commercial agriculture companies in the United States, operating with a market capitalization of several billion dollars, faced escalating cloud infrastructure costs tied to its Couchbase deployments. Their environments, spanning both production and lower tiers, were over-provisioned to maintain performance and reliability. While this approach offered stability, it resulted in inefficient resource utilization and runaway costs that scaled alongside their rapid business growth. The leadership team recognized the need to optimize without sacrificing uptime or data integrity but lacked the specialized expertise to safely re-architect these critical workloads.
Solution
BSC Analytics’ SRE engineering team partnered with the client’s internal IT organization to conduct a complete assessment of their Couchbase clusters across environments. Leveraging our 24/7 NOC and advanced monitoring capabilities, our engineers identified inefficiencies in cluster sizing, replication strategies, and storage configurations. We implemented right-sizing measures, optimized indexing practices, and applied targeted patching and tuning across the stack. Throughout the process, our team collaborated closely with the customer to validate changes in controlled, lower environments before using them at scale in production.
As a recognized AWS Premier Partner and holder of the MSP certification, BSC Analytics was also able to maximize the client’s savings by leveraging specialized AWS partner programs. This allowed us to secure preferential pricing for the resources they needed to keep running in AWS, ensuring the customer received the best possible rates for their optimized infrastructure. Combining cost efficiency from right-sizing with AWS program benefits resulted in significant budget relief for the client.
The result was a modernized, efficient Couchbase deployment that delivered equal or better performance and resilience, all with significantly less spend.
Benefits
By partnering with BSC Analytics, the client successfully reduced its Couchbase cloud spend by 50%, freeing up millions of dollars annually to reinvest in core operations and innovation initiatives. With proactive monitoring and cost optimization built into their managed services contract, the customer now benefits from predictable performance, improved budget control, and peace of mind knowing that BSC Analytics’ engineers continually fine-tune their environments. As they continue their cloud journey, this agricultural giant has the confidence that their mission-critical data platform is running at peak efficiency, supporting both its operational needs and its long-term growth strategy.
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