Case study · Healthcare devices · Cloud cost
Reduced AWS billing by 50% for LifeSignals, an end-to-end bioweb platform.
LifeSignals · Remote patient monitoring
One monolithic AWS account holding every workload, in a regulated environment. We split it, right-sized it, and halved the bill.
50%
Lower monthly AWS bill
50%
Additional saving on compute costs
The opportunity
One account, every workload, and a compliance regime watching.
LifeSignals builds healthcare solutions for Holter monitoring, in-hospital and remote patient monitoring-a highly regulated environment with strict compliance requirements and a large IT team spread across applications and services.
All of it sat in a single monolithic AWS account, which made the estate difficult to manage and to secure. Delivery suffered in parallel: long build times, inconsistent deployments, and developers integrating changes only at release. Monitoring was reactive, so issues reached end users before anyone saw them.
One monolithic AWS account
Every workload and service shared it, complicating management and security.
Oversized EC2 instances
Instances carried more compute power than the workloads actually needed.
Long builds, inconsistent deploys
Releases were delayed and varied between environments.
Monitoring was reactive
Issues were found after they had already reached end users.
The impact
The bill halved, and the estate became governable.
50% off the monthly bill
Right-sizing plus reserved instances instead of on-demand, and unused resources terminated.
An account per department
Separate accounts per department and application, matched to compliance requirements.
Governed from a master account
A central point of control keeps every sub-account compliant with security policy.
Proactive monitoring
Real-time alerts and reports on server status, so issues are found before users feel them.
The stack
What it runs on.
- Account structure
- Multi-account strategy, master account for central governance
- Compute optimisation
- Amazon EC2 right-sizing, reserved instances
- Delivery
- CI/CD pipeline automating build, test and deployment
- Monitoring
- Real-time alerting across servers and edge devices
The road ahead
The estate is separable. That is what keeps it cheap.
With workloads isolated per account and delivery automated, cost and compliance can be measured per team rather than argued about across one shared bill.
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Per-account cost attribution
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Deeper compliance automation
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Wider proactive monitoring coverage
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