How this tech company saved $300k annually in Cloud costs
Discover how MasterBorn helped a Sequoia-backed media enterprise modernize their platform, reduce delivery time by 75%, and cut cloud costs by 30%.
Ben Wasserman
Jun 25, 2025 | 2 min read
Our client, a Sequoia-backed media and entertainment enterprise, delivers premium content to millions of subscribers across the U.S. As a leader in the Media & Entertainment space, the company needed to evolve fast to stay ahead in a highly competitive digital landscape.
The Cloud complexity challenge
As the company continued to acquire new brands and integrate them under a single umbrella, their AWS environment grew rapidly. Each acquisition brought its own cloud setup, leading to a fragmented and inconsistent infrastructure. There were no unified practices in place for managing AWS at scale—especially around operational excellence, security, cost control, and reliability. This made it difficult to ensure consistency, efficiency, and visibility across teams. Cloud costs began to rise, but no structured cost management strategy was in place to address them.
The solution: streamlining AWS at scale
To address the growing complexity of customer’s AWS setup, we ran a detailed assessment using hands-on sessions with the client and comprehensive analysis of their AWS infrastructure. We applied AWS Well-Architected best practices across key pillars like operational excellence, security, reliability, and cost optimization. We worked closely with engineering teams to understand how systems were configured and used in practice. After identifying gaps and inefficiencies, we delivered clear recommendations and executed them. This helped the organization streamline operations, improve cloud governance, and significantly reduce costs by $360,000/yr.
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The impact: $360K saved and 6x faster onboarding
As a result of our collaboration, the company reduced its annual cloud costs by $360,000, thanks to improved governance, smarter architecture, and a more efficient use of AWS services. What previously took a full week—integrating new brands into their AWS organization—now takes just one day, enabling faster onboarding, better scalability, and greater operational agility.
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