BITSUMMIT optimized Shell's cloud licensing and procurement, delivering $80,000 in annual savings with full license visibility and centralized control.
Shell's cloud footprint grew with the business, and the bill grew faster than anyone was tracking. Licenses were being paid for that sat underused or unused, and resources were provisioned for a peak load that rarely arrived, so capacity, and spend, ran well ahead of actual need.
Procurement made it harder to see and harder to fix. Cloud services were bought team by team with no central view, which meant missed volume discounts, weaker contract terms, and nowhere to bring the cost under one set of hands. Shell needed its cloud spend optimized and its buying streamlined, without slowing the teams that depend on the platform every day.
BITSUMMIT treated Shell's cloud spend as three connected problems: licenses no one was tracking, resources sized for peak rather than reality, and procurement scattered across teams. Fixing all three, rather than chasing a single line item, is what made the savings stick.
Audit and right-size the licensing
BITSUMMIT ran a full inventory of Shell's cloud licenses across Microsoft Azure and AWS, surfacing the ones that were underused or sitting idle. Allocations were right-sized to actual usage so Shell paid only for what it used, and automated license-management tooling now monitors consumption in real time, so waste is caught as it happens rather than at renewal.
Match resources to real demand
The team analyzed resource usage to find over-provisioning and idle capacity, then acted on it: downsizing oversized instances, moving steady workloads onto reserved instances for a lower rate, and using auto-scaling so capacity follows demand instead of holding at the peak.
Centralize and automate procurement
Procurement was pulled into a single, centralized strategy so purchases could be consolidated for volume discounts and stronger contract terms. BITSUMMIT renegotiated licensing agreements and pricing with the cloud vendors, and automated the procurement workflow so approvals are quick and the right licenses and resources are bought against real-time need.
The combined effect of cleaner licensing, right-sized resources, and consolidated procurement was $80,000 in annual savings, freeing budget for other priorities and raising the return Shell gets on its cloud investment.
Just as important, Shell now has the visibility and control to keep those savings. Automated license management gives the team a live view of every license, so allocations can be tuned and overspending caught before it accumulates, and the centralized procurement model keeps Shell in a stronger negotiating position on every renewal. Resources track real-time demand rather than a worst-case estimate, and the automated approval workflow keeps the environment responsive as the business changes.
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