How Raptive proactively prevents AWS RDS extended support costs
- 37 databases
- automatically covered across all AWS regions, and counting
- ~$10k/year
- annual extended support costs prevented
Rentsync is one of North America's foremost real estate technology platform companies. It helps property managers and landlords manage operations for multi-family properties. Its flagship platform streamlines listing syndication, lead management, and advertising campaigns and integrates with a range of property management and accounting platforms. Headquartered in Toronto, the company has grown from a web development company for the real estate sector in 2010 before maturing, establishing with the Rentals.ca Network, and merging with other businesses to offer its customers the best marketing and property management technology.
After acquiring six companies in 2020-2021, Rentsync faced fragmented infrastructure with different tech stacks running on various cloud and on-premise servers. The company struggled with unpredictable AWS costs, limited in-house cloud expertise, and needed to improve security and compliance while consolidating systems.
DoiT assessed Rentsync's existing tech stacks and created a comprehensive roadmap for tech consolidation, cloud cost management, and security. DoiT helped optimize AWS infrastructure, implemented Terraform for policy-as-code, and provided DoiT Cloud Intelligence for enhanced visibility and cost management across both AWS and Google Cloud resources.
Without DoiT, we would not be nearly as far along as we were if we were doing this ourselves. We have a good level of expertise here, but we don't know every single AWS product and what the best practices are. DoiT was able to help us with that. If we identify that we need to do something, but we aren't 100% sure how we can go to them and ask. It saves us time because we don't have to spend two weeks trying to research and trial everything.
Brandon Axtmann, Manager of IT & Cybersecurity at Rentsync
DoiT implemented more data visibility into Rentsync's systems through DoiT Cloud Intelligence. Brandon explains: 'That was probably one of the most valuable things we got when we signed on with DoiT. We immediately got the ability to build dashboards. They give us just so much additional information about what's going on. For a smaller company like us, we are so focused on expenses. That has been just such a big bonus for us.' The comprehensive approach enabled Rentsync to see beyond immediate technical challenges and consider long-term implications.
Rentsync plans to scale and expand into new markets, underpinned by governed multi-account AWS and real-time cost visibility, and significantly expand its product offerings with the strategic acquisitions it has made. With DoiT continuously supporting its cloud infrastructure, confidence to invest increases as technical barriers recede. The first implementation will be AWS Control Tower, with plans to move workloads into stable environments that meet compliance needs.
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