Ginkocloud provides custom software and consulting to reduce AWS expenses, promising up to 70% cost savings. Their platform automates spot instance usage, Graviton optimization, and management of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, helping customers cut manual effort while keeping cloud workloads agile and reliable.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Organizations using AWS often face unpredictable and high cloud spend due to inefficient instance usage, suboptimal storage choices, and difficulty managing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. Without automated tools and expert guidance, companies may overprovision resources, miss discount opportunities, and incur unnecessary costs.
Solution
Ginkocloud delivers a custom cloud‑cost optimization platform that combines automated tooling with expert‑driven strategies to reduce AWS expenditures. The service leverages tools such as AutoSpotting for dynamic Spot Instance management, an EBS Optimizer for storage selection, and continuous rightsizing, autoscaling, and scheduling to match capacity to demand. It also provides discount management for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, aiming to capture up to an additional 55% savings while limiting long‑term commitment risk. Real‑time analytics and automated actions keep workloads agile, reliable, and cost‑effective, enabling faster scaling and innovation.
Target Audience
Primary customers are mid‑size to large enterprises and SaaS providers that run substantial workloads on AWS and need to control cloud spend while maintaining performance and scalability.
Features
- AutoSpotting integration for automated Spot Instance selection and lifecycle management
- EBS Optimizer that continuously evaluates GP2, GP3, IO1, and IO2 volumes to choose the most cost‑effective storage class
- Rightsizing, autoscaling, and scheduling engine that adjusts compute capacity based on actual usage patterns
- Discount management module that recommends and automates Reserved Instances and Savings Plans purchases for up to 55% extra savings
- Support for Graviton-based instances to further lower compute costs while maintaining performance
- Network latency optimization through advanced routing to improve data transfer efficiency across regions