This page is also available in Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, and Português.

Into The Source Cuts Cloud Spend 27%

DoiT Cloud Reliability Engineers delivered AWS data lake migration, upskilling, and Cloud Intelligence optimization for a scalable client platform.

Meet Into The Source

Into The Source is a digital agency that helps companies, brands, and organizations grow by delivering full-service software solutions. It leverages creativity, data, knowledge, and expertise to create bespoke and user-centric approaches to meet complex client requirements. The company prides itself on building data-driven digital solutions, believing that delivering powerful digital experiences leads to customer loyalty. Its client base ranges from sports clubs and hardware stores to construction and retail organizations, providing custom solutions for business analysis, UX/UI design, SEO, software development, and integration.

The Challenge

Into The Source needed to build a highly complex data lake project for client Vadain, requiring real-time visibility and predictable scale. The challenge involved supporting larger, complex programs with confidence and governance, developing a bespoke cloud platform capable of handling vast data amounts and processing thousands of orders per week.

The Solution

DoiT provided expert Cloud Reliability Engineers for technical support and optimization. The solution included data lake planning and migration using AWS Database Migration Service, immersion sessions and upskilling workshops, and implementation of DoiT Cloud Intelligence for ongoing optimization and insights.

Results

Achieved 27% reduction in cloud spending through DoiT Cloud Intelligence optimization
Reclaimed ~75 minutes per support ticket (51 hours YTD), freeing engineering capacity for higher-value work
Successfully migrated complex data lake with real-time visibility and scalable AWS infrastructure
Empowered development team with AWS knowledge and tools for ongoing maintenance and optimization

DoiT's support has enhanced our operational capabilities, cost efficiency, time savings, and team development, giving us a significant competitive advantage.
Tim Vogt, Lead Developer, Into The Source

Data Lake Planning and Migration

DoiT began with an initial assessment and planning phase, understanding platform needs and aligning data lake goals with stakeholders. In collaboration with Into The Source, DoiT developed an architectural diagram for the data lake with clear runbooks and guardrails. The team identified key components including data ingestion, storage, processing, and analytics while highlighting risk mitigation strategies. Using AWS Database Migration Service, DoiT assisted with migrating large amounts of data from the data warehouse, ensuring on-premise compatibility through meticulously planned phases over several months.

Expert Training and Upskilling

DoiT Cloud Engineers conducted workshops and helped bridge specific knowledge gaps within the team. This proved crucial in equipping Into The Source's development team with necessary tools for ongoing fixes and proactive AWS optimizations. The training empowered internal teams and provided long-term tools to achieve client goals and objectives for similar future projects.

Cloud Intelligence for Optimization

DoiT Cloud Intelligence provided Into The Source with automated solutions and easy-to-implement recommendations. The platform enabled the team to optimize pricing, eliminate waste and redundancy, and better align requested resources to actual usage. This gave the company better insights into costs and optimizations, helping identify areas of potential overspending or inefficiency across both individual developers and business operations.

Measurable Results and Impact

The support from DoiT empowered Into The Source's developers, enhancing AWS knowledge and capability to manage complex data lake processes with confidence. The team reclaimed approximately 75 minutes per support ticket, freeing engineering capacity for higher-value work. Since implementing DoiT Cloud Intelligence, Into The Source achieved a 27% reduction in cloud spending, with savings strategically reinvested into new projects and innovations for further growth and development.

Future Roadmap

The data lake project continues with DoiT supporting Into The Source's journey to secure ISO accreditation through clear roadmaps and governance guardrails. This involves strengthening security posture and compliance on AWS, with prioritized roadmapping to determine the best strategy for achieving ISO objectives. The ongoing partnership positions Into The Source for continued growth and competitive advantage.

See how DoiT helps cloud teams control spend

Explore how DoiT Cloud Intelligence helps teams improve visibility, governance, and unit economics across cloud environments.

Visit DoiT Talk to our team

What they say

Cloudflow's new RDS End of Life alerts have allowed us to be more proactive on keeping our database instances up-to-date. The new solution gives us internal visibility ahead of time so that we can prepare for upgrades, instead of having to upgrade under pressure while incurring extended support costs.

Jon Fairbanks, Site Reliability Engineering Manager

PerfectScale cut 40% off our total EKS spend, and the automations handle what used to take our team 20 hours a month. Now we spend that time on reliability and performance instead of chasing cost metrics.

Caio Cristo, Director of Infrastructure/SRE

What I really like about DoiT's approach is that you're very hands-on and proactive. Satyam would ping me a few times a sprint, letting me know about the most current features, checking in on how things are going. When we are going through a peak time, that proactiveness makes a real difference. Satyam always comes through whenever we need support and helps us leverage the right experts to get us where we need to be.

Chiamaka Ibeme, Engineering Manager, Platform

SELECT has made important cost data readily accessible. I will often pull it up during engineering design reviews so we can quickly evaluate cost impact and projections and factor that into our design decisions.

Douglas Zickuhr, Senior Data Platform Engineer at Personio

I love clicking through SELECT to understand how our environment and workloads are evolving. I probably check it every day. It's coffee and SELECT for me every morning.

Ian Fahey, Senior Analytics Engineer at Loop

You guys have the best UI experience that I've had of any software. It's like you just read my mind where, like, oh, I wish I could click there. Oh, I can

Diana Koshy, Sr. Director of Data Engineering at Kargo

SELECT feels like exactly what Paul and I would have built if we had locked ourselves in a room for 18 months to create our ideal monitoring solution.

Devin McGee, Data Engineering Lead at Home Chef

SELECT dramatically lowers the cognitive load to understanding Snowflake costs. I'm able to sit there and easily understand what's driving the cost. Not to blow smoke up your ass, but it's just so easy to do in your platform

Blake Baggett, Head of Data Operations at Entain

One of the most helpful cost rituals we've setup from SELECT is the weekly spend digest sent to Slack. I can start high level and ensure things are in check. If not, I can very quickly drill down into specific workloads which may have driven the cost spike and remediate them before they become a bigger issue.

Michael Revelo, Manager of data and analytics engineering at ClickUp

Through SELECT's automated savings feature and deep cost visibility, we were able to instantly lower our Snowflake spend by over 40% and achieve a 20X ROI on our SELECT investment.

Skyler Chi, SVP, GTM Productivity & Excellence at Exiger

Our costs had jumped up 3X as we scaled, so we're talking about 60% savings in Snowflake spend after adopting SELECT.

Edward Mancey, GTM Lead at Synthesia

DoiT was a true partner, not a vendor. They helped us understand the problem, refine the vision, and build something production-ready far faster than we could have on our own. Their expertise, responsiveness, and commitment made all the difference.

Dr. Anish Kapur, Founder & CEO, Promptly

DoiT's Customer Success and Forward Deployed Engineering teams work very closely with us. The regular sessions with our CSM keep us focused on the right priorities, and the FDEs provide the deep technical guidance we need to validate decisions and optimize our environment. That combination has been genuinely valuable for us.

Alexander Lundberg Santos, Platform Engineer at Extenda Retail

Your cloud bill shouldn't be a mystery

Let us show you what ships this week.

Book a demo