Peloton

$400K Annual Savings in 4 Weeks Without Disrupting 75 Developers

How Peloton optimized AWS costs and modernized configuration management while keeping developer teams running at full speed.

Adoption
Security & Compliance
Cost Optimization
$400K
annual infrastructure savings
4
weeks to full implementation

Peloton Interactive, Inc. is an industry leader in exercise equipment and media, committed to bringing the community and excitement of boutique fitness into the home. Their mission is to use technology and design to connect the world through fitness, empowering people to be the best version of themselves anywhere, anytime.

The Challenge

Cut Costs Without Cutting Developer Velocity

Peloton's Developer Infrastructure team supports 75+ developers across a large infrastructure footprint. Leadership needed to reduce cloud costs through infrastructure improvements—but with a critical constraint: zero negative impact on developer teams.

The complexity ran deep. Multiple teams were developing applications with unique tech stacks and requirements. Any changes had to be implemented with minimal downtime while actually reducing complexity across teams, not adding to it.

The mandate was clear: find significant savings, modernize the tooling, and do it all without slowing down the people building Peloton's products.

The Approach

Analysis First, Then Action

EverOps began with a detailed analysis of Peloton's existing infrastructure, creating a comprehensive layout of the current state before proposing any changes. This investigation identified the highest-impact opportunities without requiring a complete re-architecture.

The analysis produced four distinct solution paths that could be executed in parallel: rightsizing instances based on actual utilization, migrating to more cost-effective compute, building visibility into spend, and modernizing configuration management.

Throughout the engagement, EverOps operated as a fully functioning workstream alongside Peloton's staff—driving independent projects while keeping systems running and customers happy.

Technologies & Tools: AWS · EC2 Graviton · Ansible · Chef · Jenkins

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The Approach

Embedded Expertise with a Clear Roadmap

EverOps embedded a 3-person FinOps Pod directly into Life360's platform team. Within the first week, our engineers had access to their AWS accounts, joined their Slack channels, and began a comprehensive cost analysis using our proprietary Opportunity Finder methodology.

The engagement followed a structured approach: two weeks of discovery and prioritization, four weeks of execution on high-impact optimizations, and two weeks of governance implementation to sustain savings. Throughout, the Pod operated as an extension of the internal team — attending standups, collaborating in real-time, and transferring knowledge continuously.

Unlike consultants who deliver reports, our Pod executed the changes directly — rightsizing instances, eliminating waste, renegotiating reserved capacity, and implementing automated cost controls.

The Solution

Four Levers for Immediate Impact

EverOps executed a multi-pronged optimization strategy that addressed both immediate cost reduction and long-term operational improvements.

Key Initiatives:

  • Instance Rightsizing — Analyzed utilization patterns across the environment and reduced instance sizes where capacity exceeded actual demand, eliminating waste without affecting performance.
  • Graviton Migration — Migrated instance types to EC2 Graviton processors, delivering better price-performance and positioning the infrastructure on AWS's most cost-effective compute platform.
  • Executive Spend Dashboards — Built real-time visibility into cloud costs, giving leadership the data they needed to make informed decisions and track optimization progress.
  • Chef to Ansible Migration — Replaced the legacy licensed configuration management solution with Ansible, modernizing the technology stack while improving supportability and flexibility.
The Results

Savings Delivered, Developers Uninterrupted

Within 4 weeks, EverOps delivered $400K in annual infrastructure savings through a combination of instance optimization and migration from licensed to open-source tooling.

The Chef to Ansible migration modernized Peloton's configuration management, improving technology supportability and giving teams more flexibility in how they manage configurations. Beyond the immediate wins, EverOps trained Peloton's developers and Platform teams to ensure they could run with the new solutions effectively going forward.

Peloton now has both a modernized configuration management solution and a repeatable cost-reduction process for ongoing infrastructure optimization.

$400K
Annual savings
4 Weeks
Implementation
75+
Developers supported
Client Experience

"EverOps has been instrumental to our success at Peloton in the Developer Experience group. They keep our systems running and our customers happy. They drive independent projects and are a fully functioning workstream alongside our staff."

Developer Experience, Peloton
CLIENT EXPERIENCE

"EverOps has been instrumental to our success at Peloton in the Developer Experience group. They keep our systems running and our customers happy. They drive independent projects and are a fully functioning workstream alongside our staff."

— Developer Experience, Peloton
What's Next?
With the foundation in place—real-time spend visibility, modernized configuration management, and a proven optimization process—Peloton can continue to identify and execute cost reduction opportunities as their infrastructure evolves. The EverOps team remains on track to drive additional OpEx savings through ongoing Jenkins optimization and rightsizing initiatives.
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