A scaling B2B SaaS company was over-provisioned and absorbing recurring peak-load outages. Vriea re-architected it on Terraform-managed, multi-AZ infrastructure with autoscaling, full CI/CD, and tested failover — recovering six figures in annual spend while reaching 99.98% measured uptime.
Client snapshot (anonymized)
The challenge
The platform was bleeding margin to over-provisioned infrastructure and losing revenue and trust to outages during peak load. Specifically:
- Cloud spend scaled faster than revenue, with heavy over-provisioned headroom carried "just in case."
- Recurring peak-load outages with no tested recovery path.
- Manual, infrequent deploys that made every release risky.
Our approach
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FinOps teardown
Tagged every resource, modeled cost-to-value, and identified right-sizing and commitment opportunities.
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Infrastructure as code
Rebuilt the environment as Terraform-managed landing zones: reproducible, version-controlled, multi-AZ.
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Reliability engineering
Autoscaling, explicit SLOs and error budgets, and an observability stack.
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Tested resilience
Automated failover and disaster-recovery runbooks, exercised — not theoretical.
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CI/CD
Automated pipelines with gates, enabling frequent, low-risk deploys.
Results
| Metric | Before | After |
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| Monthly cloud spend | Over-provisioned baseline | −43% |
| Measured uptime | Recurring outages | 99.98% |
| Deploy frequency | Manual, infrequent | 8× more frequent |
| Peak-load outage class | Recurring | Eliminated |
Outcome: six-figure annual spend recovered while removing the outage class entirely — turning infrastructure from a liability into a governed, predictable asset.
What this means for you
If your cloud bill is climbing faster than revenue, or reliability is costing you customers, the same playbook applies: measure, re-architect as code, engineer reliability to explicit targets, and prove recovery.
Get the same playbook run on your stack.
Tell us where the spend and the outages are. A senior architect — not a sales rep — responds within one business day.
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