Arise achieves significant cost savings through enhanced automation

RapidScale modernizes Arise's automation platform on AWS, delivering immediate financial impact and long-term value.

Overview

Arise, a technology-driven services provider enabling flexible, work-from-home customer support, partnered with RapidScale to modernize its automation platform under an aggressive timeline. 

In just two months, Arise transitioned from a rigid monolithic system to a scalable microservices architecture, achieving 66% cost savings while gaining long-term flexibility and independence. Arise’s success depends on balancing agility, security, and cost efficiency, particularly as their clients’ needs fluctuate. 

Outcomes that matter

Modernizing its automation platform on AWS with RapidScale delivered immediate financial impact and long-term strategic value. As a result, Arise achieved:

Quantifiable Results:

  • 66% reduction in system costs
  • Two-month time-to-value, enabling Arise to realize savings within the required window
  • Transition from fixed-cost infrastructure to consumption-based pricing
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RapidScale Solutions:
CloudApplication
Vertical:

Technology

Business Size:

Medium Enterprise

Business Challenges:

As a platform connecting micropreneurs from around the globe with enterprise clients, Arise depends on secure, scalable, and flexible technology to support fluctuating demand.

However, Arise’s critical automation coordination system carried a fixed cost structure and limited flexibility. Leadership recognized that continuing with the existing platform would prevent the company from achieving near-term cost savings and adapting automation workflows to future needs. Key challenges included:

  • Rigid, monolithic architecture with limited customization capabilities
  • High fixed costs that did not align with variable business demand
  • Urgent need for cost savings tied to a strict financial timeline
  • Inability to fully control or extend automation capabilities

Compounding the challenge was an extremely aggressive timeline. The business faced a clear inflection point: modernize quickly or absorb another year of unnecessary cost.

The challenge

As a platform connecting micropreneurs from around the globe with enterprise clients, Arise depends on secure, scalable, and flexible technology to support fluctuating demand.

However, Arise’s critical automation coordination system carried a fixed cost structure and limited flexibility. Leadership recognized that continuing with the existing platform would prevent the company from achieving near-term cost savings and adapting automation workflows to future needs.

The solution

RapidScale delivered a cloud-native transformation strategy focused on speed, flexibility, and long-term value:

Modern cloud architecture

  • Transitioned from a monolithic system to a microservices-based architecture with AWS

Cost optimization and funding alignment

  • Implemented AWS MAP-aligned migration strategy to support the transformation
  • Applied cost optimization best practices, including tagging and cost governance to optimize cloud spend

Knowledge transfer and enablement

  • Embedded hands-on training and knowledge transfer throughout the engagement

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