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20 Minutes Frees 2 Engineers for Innovation

Cloud Intelligence™ delivers real-time visibility, anomaly detection, and Flexsave savings across AWS and Google Cloud serverless workloads.

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20 Minutes

Meet 20 Minutes

20 Minutes is a free news publisher which also publishes a daily newspaper. Launched in Paris in 2002, it was originally aimed at French commuters, and has grown to become one of France's leading news organizations, read by more than 20 million monthly users. With a focus on digital platforms, including its website and mobile app, 20 Minutes delivers up-to-the-minute news updates, insightful analysis, and engaging multimedia content.

The Challenge

20 Minutes migrated from on-premise infrastructure to serverless architecture on AWS and Google Cloud to handle traffic spikes during major news events. However, the unpredictable costs of serverless architecture made budgeting difficult, especially with spiking traffic from mobile app usage.

The Solution

20 Minutes implemented DoiT Console for real-time cloud cost visualization across AWS and Google Cloud, Real-Time Anomaly Detection for cost spike alerts, and Flexsave for Compute for automatic discount allocation. The team gained daily visibility into Lambda usage, S3 storage costs, and workload expenses.

Results

  • Reclaimed capacity equivalent to two full-time engineers for innovation projects
  • Achieved 9.2% savings on AWS compute workloads with Flexsave for Compute
  • Saved hundreds of dollars by quickly detecting and fixing Step Functions cost spike
  • Reduced Step Functions costs by 90% through rapid anomaly detection and remediation

Like most media companies, we need to be careful about our expenditure, and with spiking traffic on a busy news day, our costs can quickly rise. The DoiT console helps us see all our costs in detail, understand where they're coming from, and take steps to control them.

Jérémy Benoist, VP Engineering at 20 Minutes

Visualizing and managing cloud expenditure with DoiT technology

With DoiT console, the 20 Minutes team can now see exactly what cloud resources it is using and their cost in real time, both for its serverless infrastructure on AWS and for its data analytics workloads running on Google Cloud. The team checks costs daily, with the CTO reviewing expenditure each morning to understand spending and make adjustments. The console allows them to optimize caching policies by seeing the immediate impact of changes on costs, and use forecasting to predict costs and scenario-plan for news-driven traffic spikes.

Spotting spiking costs quickly with Real-Time Anomaly Detection

20 Minutes uses Real-Time Anomaly Detection to spot unexpected spikes in cloud costs, reducing false positives and enabling rapid remediation. When a bug in Step Functions configuration led to spiking costs, the team immediately received an alert and fixed the issue quickly. They spotted costs rising from $2 to $20 per day and reduced them by 90%, saving hundreds of dollars. The company also uses Flexsave for Compute to automatically allocate discounted rates to AWS compute workloads.

Freeing up developers to develop new services

20 Minutes saves significant time with DoiT technology. Without full visibility of cloud usage, the company previously spent weeks diagnosing and fixing cost issues. With DoiT console, they can identify problems quickly and save development time. These time savings allow the team to dedicate resources to valuable projects, including developing a new generative AI tool to help journalists reformat news stories, allowing journalists to focus on creating original content.

Access to cloud expertise on demand

20 Minutes maintains regular contact with the DoiT team through direct messaging and monthly check-ins. When they need support, the team turns to DoiT Cloud Solve and Cloud Reliability Engineers who react quickly with precise analysis and solutions. The CREs help fix issues in a matter of days, providing essential cloud expertise on demand.

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What they say

Finlex

DoiT gave us the confidence to move from experimentation to production. They helped us understand the right way to build AI for the real world.

Milad Rezazadeh, CTO

Hippo

Attribute™'s cost grouping technology took our cost visibility and allocation to a whole new level. Now, our teams are fully accountable for their budgets, significantly improving our cloud efficiency and helping us minimize unnecessary costs.

Eli Zilbershtein, Head of DevOps, Hippo

Island

You can't tag a customer in a multi-tenant environment. Attribute™ finally shows us what each customer costs and what's driving those costs.

Omri Cohen, Director of Engineering, Platform

Claroty

Attribute™'s data is truly unmatched. No other solution on the market could deliver the precise customer cost and usage profiles we needed in such a complex infrastructure. Within weeks, the data from Attribute™ transformed our understanding of cost structures, influencing key strategic decisions in pricing, renegotiations, and market positioning.

Jonathan Langer, COO, Claroty

Salt Security

Attribute™ simplified tracking customer costs in our multi-tenant environments. Customer cost measurement is now clear and standardized, and finance gets the business context they need. Integration was quick and required no changes.

Kfir Lippmann, CFO, Salt Security

PropertyGuru

Attribute™ translates complex cloud bills into actionable, business-centric insights that empower our engineering teams to take true ownership of their costs.

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Accrete AI

This has let us get a better idea of what our cost of goods sold really is. It's not every day you come across something that delivers value as quickly as yours did for us. I was seeing useful insights inside the POC, and we had only deployed it to a couple of real clusters.

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Akamai

Eliminating the need to tag thousands of resources has freed up my team and we've invested our efforts in enhancing our platform significantly.

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OneFootball

PerfectScale by DoiT has become an important part of how we optimize Kubernetes at scale at OneFootball. It gives our platform team the visibility, automation, resiliency insights, and confidence we need to balance cost efficiency with production readiness, especially as we prepare for major global football moments like the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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Personio

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.

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