IMPACT Case Study
How a Staffing Company Saved $8.6K annually & Reduced 23.6% Cloud Costs
Services
AWS infrastructure
Industry
Staffing
We modernized enterprise AWS operations while reducing cloud costs by 23.6%”
IMPACT is a large U.S.-based workforce management company supporting enterprise staffing operations at scale.
As AWS infrastructure complexity and cloud spending continued growing, the company needed stronger governance, improved security controls, and more efficient operational management across multiple environments.
ClickIT partnered with IMPACT to modernize AWS operations through IaC, cloud security hardening, and infrastructure cost optimization initiatives.
The Strategic Decision at Stake
Without improving infrastructure governance, operational consistency, and cloud cost optimization:
- Infrastructure costs would continue scaling unpredictably
- Manual AWS provisioning would increase operational risk
- Shared credentials and inconsistent access management would reduce auditability
- Scaling infrastructure across environments would remain inefficient
- Lack of centralized security controls would increase exposure to malicious traffic and unauthorized access
- Engineering teams would continue relying on manual AWS Console operations without repeatable deployment workflows
The Challenges IMPACT Faced
IMPACT needed to strengthen its AWS infrastructure security posture while improving infrastructure governance and reducing operational costs
Key challenges included:
- Protecting the platform against malicious traffic and unauthorized access
- Eliminating manual infrastructure provisioning workflows
- Migrating unsupported server versions into stable environments
- Improving deployment consistency across environments
- Reducing operational cloud spend without affecting scalability
- Centralizing access controls and infrastructure governance
Our Approach: Modernizing Secure AWS Operations and Reducing Infrastructure Costs
To improve infrastructure security and governance, ClickIT:
This approach strengthened infrastructure resilience, improved operational governance, and reduced security risks across all AWS environments.
Optimizing Cloud Costs & Infrastructure Efficiency
| Before (Jan 2026) | After (Apr 2026) | Savings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EC2 Compute | $2,120/mo | $1,302/mo | −38.6% |
| NAT Gateway | $57/mo | $30/mo | −47.8% |
| Total Infrastructure | $3,046/mo | $2,325/mo | −23.6% |
| Projected Annual | $36,552/yr | $27,904/yr | −$8,648/yr |
- Migrated workloads into Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate
- Replaced on-demand compute instances with EC2 Spot Instances for non-production environments
- Implemented autoscaling groups to improve compute allocation efficiency
- Added lifecycle policies to Amazon S3 and Amazon ECR
- Configured VPC Interface Endpoints for Amazon ECR and CloudWatch Logs to reduce NAT Gateway costs
- Replaced database-backed Celery task queues with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to reduce RDS I/O load and improve throughput
All Technologies Used
We implement a tech stack built for AWS infrastructure modernization for Networking, Security, Observability, Operations, and automation.
The Strategic Outcome
The Results for IMPACT
- The client achieved a 23.6% reduction in total infrastructure costs ($720/month, ~$8,648/year in projected annual savings)
- 38.6% reduction in compute costs through containerization with Amazon ECS and Spot Instances
- Full IaC coverage across 6 environments, replacing a fully manual provisioning process with a reproducible, auditable, and version-controlled deployment pipeline.
Decisions Unlocked
- Scale AWS infrastructure with greater operational efficiency
- Improve infrastructure governance and auditability
- Standardize multi-environment infrastructure deployments
- Improve infrastructure visibility and cost governance
- Build repeatable operational workflows for DevOps and engineering teams
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