How Hex moved from zero commitment coverage to 98% — and kept pace with hypergrowth.
The challenge
Hex was scaling rapidly. Their AWS footprint was growing month over month, making it difficult to purchase commitments at the right level — buying too early meant over-commitment, buying too late meant leaving savings uncaptured.
The dynamic nature of hypergrowth made self-managed commitments impractical. What they needed was a programme that could track their growth and adjust coverage continuously.
"We went from zero commitment coverage to 98% without any of the operational risk of managing it ourselves. The programme scaled as we grew."Kim Leung — Engineering Lead, Hex
The outcome
With a managed commitment programme, Hex went from 0% coverage to 98% across their primary compute fleet. Coverage scaled in line with their growth — automatically, without engineering involvement.
The 98% coverage milestone reflects a fully optimised commitment posture: near-maximum savings captured, with appropriate flexibility preserved for the workloads that require it.
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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