Cyera: Enhancing DevOps Efficiency and Eliminating Waste with Wiv.ai

Incorporating Wiv.ai into Cyera’s DevOps processes marked a significant leap towards achieving operational excellence and cost-efficiency in cloud resource management. As a hyper-growth company, Cyera faced challenges in scaling its engineering operations without compromising speed or innovation. The integration of Wiv.ai’s smart scheduling, instance management solutions, and waste detection capabilities empowered Cyera to automate resource optimization, eliminate waste, and maintain a balance between rapid growth and operational efficiency.

Cyera’s rapid expansion brought to light several critical needs for a comprehensive solution that could streamline cloud resource management, particularly for their Amazon RDS instances and other cloud resources in development environments. Key challenges included:

• Resource Optimization: Ensuring efficient use of cloud resources without hindering the pace of development.
• Automated Scheduling and Termination: The absence of an automated system for scheduling and terminating unused or unnecessary resources led to increased costs and resource wastage.
• Workflow Approval and Visibility: Cyera required a system that provided visibility into resource usage and enabled controlled approvals for terminating instances, ensuring that critical resources remained unaffected.
• Waste Identification and Elimination: Detecting and addressing inefficiencies, such as unattached EBS volumes or over-provisioned resources, that were leading to unnecessary costs.
• False Positive Reduction: Minimizing false alerts in waste detection to focus on real cost-saving opportunities.
• Root Cause Analysis: Understanding the underlying reasons for resource waste, such as bugs in automation processes.

Through Wiv.ai, Cyera achieved significant operational improvements:

• Automated Resource Management: Automated scheduling and termination of RDS instances and other cloud resources in development environments, significantly reducing cloud costs.
• Approval-Based Workflow System: The introduction of an approval-based workflow system provided a controlled environment for resource management, enhancing visibility and accountability.
• GitHub Integration: Leveraging GitHub actions, Cyera maintained minimal permissions for Wiv.ai, ensuring security and compliance.
• Waste Elimination: Implemented customized waste detection workflows that successfully identified and eliminated unnecessary resource usage, such as unattached EBS volumes.
• False Positive Reduction: Fine-tuned waste detection algorithms to dramatically reduce false positives, allowing the team to focus on genuine cost-saving opportunities.
• Root Cause Analysis: Utilized Wiv.ai’s insights to identify and fix underlying issues, such as a bug in automation that was generating a large number of unattached EBS volumes.

The implementation of Wiv.ai resulted in tangible benefits for Cyera:

• Cost Savings: Achieved significant reduction in cloud spend, with savings in the range of tens of thousands of dollars per month.
• Resource Efficiency: Improved the RDS utilization by over 60% in development environments.
• Waste Reduction: Eliminated over 90% of identified waste, including unattached volumes and over-provisioned instances.

The support provided by Wiv.ai was pivotal in the seamless adoption of its solutions. With around-the-clock assistance, Cyera navigated the complexities of implementing Wiv.ai’s cloud management tools, resulting in minimal disruption and enhanced developer productivity. The Wiv.ai team’s responsiveness and expertise were crucial in customizing waste detection workflows to Cyera’s specific needs.

Cyera is keen on deepening its collaboration with Wiv.ai, exploring new avenues for optimizing cloud resource management and fostering a culture of efficiency and innovation within its development teams. Future plans include:

1. Expanding waste detection to additional cloud services and environments.
2. Implementing predictive analytics for proactive resource optimization.
3. Further integrating Wiv.ai’s insights into Cyera’s CI/CD pipelines for real-time optimization.

Through this strategic partnership, Cyera has not only addressed its immediate operational challenges but has also set the stage for continuous improvement and efficiency in managing its cloud infrastructure. This reinforces Cyera’s position as a leader in data-centric security solutions while maintaining a lean and optimized cloud footprint.