CloudFix Optimizes Savings Opportunities so Conn’s HomePlus can Scale Innovation on AWS

Retail provider Conn’s HomePlus worked with CloudFix to clear a path forward that would complement their recent move to AWS and continue helping customers create homes they love. The company wanted to lower operational costs to make bigger investments in the customer experience. Working with CloudFix, an AWS Partner, they were able to find and leverage the biggest AWS savings opportunities.

The initial reason for Conn’s HomePlus to move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) was to reduce operational costs. However, two events made the migration more urgent. Covid-19 hit, and employees needed the ability to work from home. At the same time, Conn’s HomePlus was undergoing a significant digital transformation by adding website modernizations that would make placing and tracking orders easier. The website also had new ways for customers to pay online.

This new cloud innovation led to a surge in AWS spending. Conn’s HomePlus needed a solution to automatically optimize and contain AWS costs.

Conn’s HomePlus discovered AWS Partner CloudFix at an AWS conference and decided to try it. “We started with a few of our higher spend accounts,” says Jeremy Anderson, cloud architect at Conn’s. “CloudFix instantly found significant savings by transitioning our storage from Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) GP2 to GP3 volumes. So we decided to let CloudFix find and fix savings across all of our AWS accounts, and that’s when we really started saving money.”

Anderson and his team tried other solutions before CloudFix, but they needed an optimization tool that was more accurate. They wanted a meticulous solution so they could see if recommendations are correct.

“CloudFix actually fixes things, not just finds them,” Anderson said. “The team keeps on top of releasing new fixers that generate new savings for us regularly—and they’re all based on guidance from AWS, so we don’t have to focus on whether the recommendations are good or not. They just inherently are.”

Conn’s HomePlus was able to easily implement CloudFix without safety concerns. Within a matter of minutes, CloudFix scanned every AWS instance across the entire Conn’s HomePlus infrastructure. On the first day, they found $10,000 in savings. In a matter of weeks, that number ballooned to over $85,000. As the savings compound, Conn’s HomePlus expects to save much more over the next several years.

With CloudFix, the Conn’s HomePlus IT team can control costs and complexity while scaling their AWS footprint. They can move beyond the limitations of expensive consultants and visualizer tools that only find savings opportunities without implementing them.

“You really do just set CloudFix and forget it,” says Anderson. “CloudFix constantly looks at our new resources and finds and fixes opportunities to save on our AWS spend.” Now the Conn’s HomePlus cloud architecture team can spend more time on strategic work that matters most to the company. They don’t have to worry about staying up to date or in compliance with the latest AWS advisories and recommendations. CloudFix identifies best practices and implements updates automatically.

The AWS savings Conn’s HomePlus achieves with CloudFix is being reinvested into AWS-based innovation. The team is modernizing legacy applications, moving them to the cloud, and replacing legacy code and services with AWS services.

“We expect CloudFix to save us a tremendous amount of money with very little effort,” says Anderson. We’re counting on the team to keep rolling out incredible new fixers.”

Conn’s leveraged CloudFix to deliver secure, effective, non-stop AWS cost-efficient detection and fix solutions for organizations. Organizations that depend on AWS for growth and innovation can also get started reducing operational spending and improving performance with a free, self-service assessment from CloudFix.