Northwind Analytics
Moved 14 apps from a hyperscaler — and cut the bill 60%.
Northwind ships a B2B analytics product to 4,500 mid-market customers. After a year of bill-shock dashboards and confusing reserved-instance maths, they migrated their entire production estate to Vintony Host over six weekends.
Monthly bill
-60%
$24k → $9.6k
Egress costs
$0
Was $4.2k/mo
Provisioning
62s
Median across 14 apps
p95 latency
82ms
Down from 134ms
The problem
Northwind's stack was 14 production apps — Node, Go, and Python — fronted by a single load balancer, behind which sat seven managed databases, two Redis clusters, and three queue workers. The hyperscaler bill had crept from $9k/month to $24k/month over fifteen months, mostly through egress, NAT-gateway-hours, and the inscrutable price of cross-AZ traffic. The team had tried Reserved Instances and Savings Plans twice; each commit was undermined by a launch or a refactor within six months. "We were spending more on the cloud than on the engineers building the product," their VP of platform said. They needed flat, predictable pricing — and they needed it without losing the things that worked: clean isolation between staging and prod, point-in-time backups for Postgres, and the ability to provision a fresh server in under a minute.
The migration
The cutover ran across six Saturday windows, one per app-cluster. Vintony's solutions engineering team paired with two Northwind SREs to image each Postgres into a managed instance, run logical replication for the cutover, and flip DNS during a five-minute write-pause. Staging mirrored prod 1:1 from day one — the same orchestration plane, the same VLAN topology, the same SSO. Egress was the headline saving: the hyperscaler had been charging $0.09/GB for what Vintony bills as $0. Reserved-instance gymnastics disappeared; the per-second pricing made up-and-down resizing during launch weeks trivial. By week seven the last app was migrated, the hyperscaler account was on a glide path to closure, and the SREs were freed up to work on the product roadmap.
“We moved 14 production apps onto Vintony over six weekends. The deploys are fast, the SLAs are real, and the support team actually reads the logs.”
What's next
Northwind is now rolling their data-analytics pipeline onto Vintony's object storage, which will retire the last hyperscaler dependency by Q3 2026. They also plan to extend their fleet into Singapore as their APAC customer base grows past the 800-account mark.