Cutting a logistics platform's cloud bill 34% while improving on-time tracking
Northwind ran a fast-growing freight tracking platform on infrastructure that had outgrown its design. Synabix replatformed it and put a real cost habit in place.
- Client
- Northwind Logistics
- Timeline
- 14 weeks
- Platforms
- AWS, us-east-1 and eu-west-1
- Team
- 5 Synabix engineers, 3 from Northwind
What the engagement changed, in numbers.
Each figure is verified with Northwind Logistics and cited to its source, so it can be defended, not just quoted.
Where they started.
Northwind's shipment tracking platform was growing 20% quarter on quarter, but the monthly cloud bill was growing faster, and nobody could explain it. Oversized instances, idle environments, and a tangle of one-off scripts made every release risky. A renewal deadline forced a decision.
The stack we worked in
The work, in order.
- 01
A two week assessment mapped every workload, dependency, and cost driver, and found that 38% of spend was idle or oversized capacity.
- 02
We designed an AWS landing zone with clear accounts, networking, and tagging, then replatformed services in five reversible waves.
- 03
The hottest paths moved to managed and event-driven services so the platform scaled with shipment volume instead of running hot all day.
- 04
We stood up a FinOps cadence: rightsizing, committed-use coverage, budget alerts, and a monthly review the finance team actually joins.
Synabix found a third of our cloud bill hiding in plain sight, then handed us a platform our own team could run. The savings covered the project inside the first quarter.
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