Strategic Shift in Instance Distribution on Google Cloud Leading to 26% Savings

About Fairtility

Fairtility™ is advancing reproductive care through the power of transparent AI to help clinicians and their patients on the reproductive care journey. Fairtility believes that transparency is critical when AI intersects with human life. Its flagship software, CHLOE™, is a transparent AI-based decision support tool providing clinicians complete visibility into clinical and laboratory parameters crucial to improving reproductive care outcomes in IVF, fertility preservation, and egg donation. Fairtility aims to expand CHLOE™’s application across the entire reproductive care journey, from assessing infertility causes to optimizing embryo transfer.

Challenge

In Fairtility’s field, leveraging the cloud’s capabilities is not only beneficial but also essential. Like many rapidly growing startups, Fairtility has prioritized its focus on product development and business expansion. To optimize costs and effectively manage their cloud infrastructure, they turned to CloudZone for professional advice and assistance.

Solution

FinOps experts from CloudZone reviewed the customer’s Google Cloud environment, examined the resources of their main services, and built a report with recommendations. The collaboration primarily involved working on the Google Cloud Billing Console and constructing customized dashboards within Anodot (a Cost Cloud Management platform) to enhance cloud resource consumption visibility.

A key aspect of Fairtility’s services is Compute Engine. Based on their machines’ low and inconsistent CPU utilization, it became evident that Fairtility cloud costs could be greatly optimized by increasing the number of Spot Preemptible instances.

As a result, Fairtility transitioned from E2 On-Demand Instances to Spot Preemptible instances of both E2 and N2D AMD categories. In addition, CloudZone’s FinOps team created custom-made reports to monitor better the customer compute engine environment and set alerts to ensure that the Fairtility team remains well-informed and in control of their cloud spend.

“CloudZone played a crucial role in addressing a significant cost issue for us. First, they precisely identified the problem and prioritized the most urgent resolutions. Then, they demonstrated the ROI, and finally, they assisted us in monitoring the impact of the implemented changes”.

Amichahi Herman, VP R&D, Fairtility

Results

With CloudZone’s support, Fairtility reduced its cloud costs by a significant 26%. As a result of CloudZone’s FinOps experts’ efforts, the company’s Compute Engine coverage stood at 80% for Spot Preemptible instances and 20% for On-Demand instances. As a result of the strategic shift in instance distribution, Fairtility was able to optimize cloud resources while increasing its cost-effectiveness.