The Company

Geria is a company based in the United Kingdom. It connects talented software engineers, developers, designers, and project managers from Africa to UK technology companies. There is a growing IT talent gap in the UK and the rest of Europe. Geria bridges this gap by using African-based skilled IT talents, offering quality job opportunities contributing to the UK and African economy. These professionals are passionate about IT and Geria.io is passionate about problem-solving. The company mainly focuses on the development of software projects

Solution

CloudPlexo Cloud Management Platform (CCMP) solution.

Products

AWS RDS Aurora Serverless, Lambda, Api gateway, Amazon S3, AWS Step functions, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS secret manager, cloudfront.

Business Challenge

Prior to using CloudPlexo, they team at Geria lacked the maturity and the process to manage their cloud environment and infrastructure in order to discover areas cloud optimization can be applied to reduce spend. Geria was looking for a high-level management tool to help manage their cloud environment. CloudPlexo provided this solution through continuous monitoring, total visibility of operations spending, identifying underutilized and idle resources.

Working Together

Trusted Independent Software Vendor (ISV) for Geria

Why Amazon Web Services

AWS was the preferred choice as the world-leading cloud platform for flexibility, elasticity, scale and cost. CloudPlexo worked with Geria on their cloud management objective to meet all their requirements. CloudPlexo SaaS solution used a range of AWS services such as; AWS RDS Aurora Serverless, Lambda, Api gateway, Amazon S3, AWS Step functions, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS secret manager, cloudfront.

Outcomes

CloudPlexo SaaS solution, CloudPlexo Cloud Management Platform (CCMP) implemented within AWS solved Geria cost optimization of cloud environments through the use of CCMP for high-level management of their cloud environment, cost optimization, scheduling of non-production VM’s and databases, forecasting and inventory management. As a result Geria were able to make significant cost savings of up to 28%.