How Art.com unlocked $471K in total savings and cut $15K from their monthly AWS bill.
The challenge
Art.com operates a large, image-heavy e-commerce platform with significant compute and storage requirements. Their AWS spend was substantial and growing — but the complexity of managing commitments across a multi-team, multi-service environment made optimisation difficult to prioritise.
The infrastructure team needed a way to reduce costs without creating a project that pulled engineers away from product work.
"The managed commitment approach delivered real, sustained savings without pulling our infrastructure team into a FinOps project."Art.com Infrastructure Team — Art.com
The outcome
A managed commitment programme delivered $471K in total savings and a consistent $15K monthly reduction. The programme covered their primary compute workloads and required no engineering time to maintain.
The ongoing monthly saving compounds over time — making this one of the highest-return cost optimisation initiatives Art.com had run.
Savings figures reflect managed cloud commitment outcomes from a third-party provider. Automatum assists ISVs in listing on and transacting through cloud marketplaces; this result is presented as category proof of what managed commitment programmes can deliver.
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