Tessell Savings over Amazon RDS

Tessell conducted a study for a Fortune 500 financial services company in the mortgage industry to assess the benefits of running Oracle Databases on Tessell-managed AWS infrastructure versus Amazon RDS for Oracle. The customer, with a $125 million annual AWS spend and $30 million in Oracle licenses for over 700 Oracle instances, faced significant challenges including high costs, legacy workload constraints, and operational overhead.

Key challenges included:

• Legacy Workloads: Unable to meet control and flexibility needs with Amazon RDS and RDS Custom.

• Cost Burden: High AWS and Oracle expenses strained the budget.

• Performance vs. Cost: AWS performance was lower than on-premises infrastructure.

• Operational Overhead: Managing 1:1 Oracle databases to RDS instances resulted in excessive operational costs.

Tessell’s solutions led to:

• Unified Cloud-Native Environment: All Oracle databases were hosted with the control of self-managed databases and the flexibility of PaaS.

• Cost Reduction: Oracle spend was cut by 50% through consolidating databases on a single EC2 instance and leveraging Dedicated Hosts.

• Compute Savings: 70% savings on compute costs by committing to 3-year Reserved Instances.

• Integrated Features: Tessell’s platform offered built-in backup, restore, HA, and DR, eliminating the need for third-party tools.

• Operational Efficiency: Tessell reduced operational burden and boosted innovation, including support for Generative AI.

The result was substantial cost savings and enhanced operational efficiency.