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How Place Exchange transformed their programmatic platform with Graviton and Karpenter on Amazon EKS

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Place Exchange, a leading Supply-Side Platform for programmatic out-of-home (OOH) media, transformed their infrastructure by adopting Amazon EKS with Karpenter and Graviton to optimize performance and reduce costs.

  • Migrated from Docker Swarm to Amazon EKS for better scalability
  • Replaced Cluster Autoscaler with Karpenter for more flexible instance management
  • Implemented EC2 spot instances to reduce infrastructure spending
  • Adopted AWS Graviton instances for improved performance
  • Achieved 71% reduction in overall application costs
  • Decreased request latency by 25%

By leveraging Karpenter and Graviton, Place Exchange significantly improved their ad serving platform's cost-efficiency and performance, demonstrating the benefits of continuous infrastructure optimization.



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