Solomon e3 cuts cloud spending by over 50% with NexQloud migration

Solomon e3, an AI-powered geospatial platform used by cities, utilities, and healthcare systems, has significantly reduced its cloud spending by more than half after migrating its development and MVP environment to NexQloud. The move to NexQloud One, a managed Kubernetes environment, marks a major cost-saving milestone for the company.

Aaron Wright, CEO of Solomon e3, announced the significant reduction in cloud spend following a detailed review by NexQloud's Qlarity FinOps team. "Our bill had grown to a size that didn't match the value of our product," Wright explained. "NexQloud took a meticulous approach, examining every service and billing line item to identify areas for improvement."

The migration involved running the portal, gateway, and API as containers, with a self-hosted OpenSearch cluster and PostGIS. The application code remained unchanged, and the move has reportedly resulted in no unplanned downtime. Solomon e3 now utilizes NexQloud's NanoServers, which are ISV-certified Lenovo devices built on the Intel Core i9-14900T, rated at 35 watts across 32 hardware threads. These servers can be deployed in existing buildings, eliminating the need for cooling and power distribution systems.

According to Raju Vegesna, CTO of NexQloud, the transition to their platform simplified many aspects of Solomon e3's infrastructure. "Once search and geospatial operations were running on our infrastructure, the rest fell into place more easily," Vegesna said.

The savings came from addressing three key areas: idle resources, overprovisioned capacity, and less expensive compute. Idle resources were identified and retired, workloads were resized to match measured load, and the cost of compute was reduced by about a third compared to AWS at published list prices.

Aaron Wright highlighted the irony of the situation: "We spend our days advising people on how to use less energy, yet our platform was running on infrastructure that was putting extra strain on the grid. This contradiction is something we need to address independently."

To ensure transparency, Solomon e3 and NexQloud plan to commission an independent academic review to measure the cost, compute, and energy efficiency of the new architecture. The findings will be published independently to allow for verification.

The cost savings are significant, with total monthly cloud spend falling by more than half. This includes reductions in services billing while doing no work, resizing workloads to match measured load, and switching to less expensive compute options. The detailed service-by-service teardown and cost comparison are available on nexqloud.io/proof/solomon-e3, along with commands for readers to confirm the platform's migration.

Solomon e3 is used by utilities, municipalities, and healthcare systems to bridge the energy access gap. The company’s commitment to sustainability and efficiency is reflected in its decision to switch to NexQloud, a provider of secure, verifiable cloud infrastructure for regulated workloads.

NexQloud Technologies, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, offers a range of cloud management and cost intelligence solutions. The company’s NexQloud One manages workloads across its own infrastructure and an existing cloud from a single console, while its Qlarity product automates cloud cost intelligence. NexQloud holds an unqualified SOC 2® Type 2 attestation and is a Lenovo hardware partner.