MyTutor
Optimising cloud technology to save at least £160,000 a year.
In just 5 weeks.
MyTutor is a major provider of online tutoring in the UK. It is the UK’s most trusted tutoring platform by parents.
They adopt cloud technologies to run a platform for learning and to provide tutors with the tools they need to educate, Nimble’s input and knowledge sharing has enabled MyTutor to become cost efficient in the cloud even after Nimble has gone. They are now able to better identify and own AWS cloud costs effectively across the business.
£160,000
Of potential savings per year.
£100,000
Yearly cloud spend reduction in 5 weeks.
5 Weeks
Project complete in 5 weeks.
Their challenge
Since it first launched the brand has seen considerable growth and with the 2020 Covid19 restrictions has grown even quicker as parents and schools turned to technology to support children with learning.
While both schools and parents sought catch up education for those that missed, the MyTutor platform was seeing all time traffic highs. This meant, as with any opex cloud platform, the cost to run significantly increased. They knew they could make savings but didn’t know or have capacity to realise them.
“Nimble Approach were able to help us understand the right things to do and executed quickly on delivering their solutions. The long-term savings more than pay for any outlay to have the work done.”
Mike Pearce, Platform Engineering Delivery Manager @ MyTutor.
Our solution
Nimble discussed with the MyTutor senior technologists on options for cloud cost optimisation and embarked on a 5 day discovery phase to identify and eliminate wasted spend within the MyTutor hosting platform.
Our approach
- Right Sizing – updating systems to the optimum size.
- Retention refactoring – tuning systems to reflect restore points.
- Runtime Tuning – reconfiguring application level properties to reduce load
- Removal – identifying and deleting unused resources Stop/Start schedules – implementing a process for full environment destruction and restore.
Using the above, Nimble was able to help MyTutor to realise a saving on their yearly cloud bill of over £100,000 in just 5 weeks. With a projected further £60,000 a year should they continue to optimise using the knowledge and expertise Nimble have shared.
The huge saving to MyTutor is enabling them to invest more in security and feature updates to improve their product and service for their client.
Nimble’s input and knowledge sharing has enabled MyTutor to continue on a journey to become cost efficient in the cloud even after Nimble has gone. They are now able to better identify and own AWS cloud costs effectively across the business.
”You've done an awesome job and it's given me so much energy to see such a new team work so well together.
James BurtonHead of Strategic Projects at MyTutor
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