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Cloud Cost Management for Airlines & Aviation

Aviation companies are dealing with massive telemetry logs, expensive legacy system connections, and unpredictable booking surges. Costimizer reduces unnecessary storage drag and compute spend so you only pay for what keeps you flying.

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Why Are Aviation Companies Overspending on Cloud?

In aviation, efficiency is the difference between profit and loss. You optimize fuel and routes, but your cloud infrastructure is likely overweight. You are paying to store petabytes of sensor data and idle compute capacity that eats into your CASM (Cost per Available Seat Mile). It is time to jettison the digital waste.

  • Telemetry Cost Explosion: Modern aircraft generate terabytes of sensor logs per flight. You are terrified of deleting safety data, so you store it all in expensive high-speed storage where it sits untouched for years.
  • Surge Overprovisioning: When weather disrupts flights, your re-booking systems get hammered. You over-provision massive servers to survive these IROPS events but forget to scale them down when operations return to normal.
  • Legacy Connectivity Costs: You are building modern apps on top of 30-year-old mainframe reservation systems. Inefficient queries and chatty API connections are leaking money every time a passenger checks a flight status.
  • Data Residency Risk: You fly globally, but passenger data has to stay local. Accidentally moving PNR data across borders triggers massive transfer fees and regulatory fines.
  • Abandoned Simulations: Your flight ops teams spin up massive clusters to run route simulations. These expensive tasks often get left running over the weekend after the analysis is finished.

How Airlines Can Benefit from Costimizer?

Smarter Retention
Smarter Retention
Automatically move older flight logs and black box data from expensive hot storage to ultra-cheap archive tiers the moment they aren't needed for immediate analysis.
Responsive Scaling
Responsive Scaling
Handle holiday booking rushes or weather-related surges without keeping peak capacity running 365 days a year.
Accurate Allocation
Accurate Allocation
Finally split the IT bill clearly between Passenger, Cargo, and Maintenance divisions so you know the true profitability of each unit.
Spot Instance Efficiency
Spot Instance Efficiency
Run your massive route planning and fuel optimization simulations on Spot Instances for up to 90% savings compared to on-demand pricing.
Compliance Confidence
Compliance Confidence
Prove to regulators (FAA, EASA) that you are retaining safety data for the exact required timeframe without overpaying for storage you don't need.

Features Every Aviation Company Needs

Intelligent Storage Tiering

  • Define lifecycle policies based on aircraft type and regulatory rules.
  • Automatically archive sensor logs and maintenance records after 90 days.

Data Transfer Analyzer

  • Visualize exactly where your passenger data is moving between regions.
  • Spot unnecessary cross-border traffic that triggers high egress fees.

Orphaned Resource Cleanup

  • Find and delete unattached storage volumes from decommissioned booking engines.
  • Clean up idle load balancers left behind after marketing campaigns.

Workload Scheduling

  • Automatically shut down non-production crew scheduling environments on weekends.
  • Schedule heavy historical analysis jobs during off-peak hours.

Tagging for Attribution

  • Tag costs by specific aircraft fleet or route profitability.
  • Track the infrastructure cost of specific loyalty programs or mobile apps.

Compliance Reporting

  • Generate reports showing that data retention policies are active and cost-optimized.
  • Alert on data residency violations (e.g., PNR data stored in the wrong region).

The Old Airline IT vs. The Costimizer Way

The Old Way

The Costimizer Way

Storing terabytes of sensor data in Hot storage

Tiering data to Cold/Archive storage automatically

Provisioning for peak holiday traffic all year round

Dynamic scaling that breathes with demand

A single massive IT bill for the whole airline

Costs allocated to Cargo, Passenger, and MRO divisions

Paying full price for route simulation servers

Using Spot Instances for heavy background processing

Manual audits to check where passenger data lives

Automated residency alerts and geofencing

Fear-based overprovisioning for reliability

Data-backed capacity planning

Best Practices for Aviation Companies

Do's

Don'ts

Do move old flight logs to cheaper cold storage after a few months.

Don't keep years of sensor data in expensive storage just because you might need it someday.

Do use auto-scaling to handle holiday rushes and storm delays.

Don't run massive servers all year round just to be ready for a spike that happens once.

Do tag every cost to a specific division like Cargo or Passenger so you know who is spending money.

Don't pay a single massive IT bill where nobody knows which department created the cost.

Do check how much data your legacy systems are sending to the cloud to avoid surprise fees.

Don't ignore the hidden costs of moving data between different countries or regions.

Get Started with Costimizer Today

Your cloud cost optimization journey shouldn't wait anymore, there already many things on hold. Don't let your cloud budget hold you back even more.

Step 01: Connect
Link your cloud accounts securely with read-only permissions.
Step 02: Scan
We analyze your storage buckets, transfer costs, and compute usage.
Step 03: Automate
We help you set up automated policies to move old data to cheaper storage.
Step 04: Save
Watch your storage and compute bills drop while your reliability stays the same.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will optimizing costs compromise our operational reliability or safety?

No. We never touch your critical flight safety systems. We focus on the infrastructure waste, like cold data sitting in hot storage or idle servers in dev environments that aren't supporting active flights.

We have separate divisions for Cargo and Passenger. Can we separate the costs?

Yes. We allow you to tag and view costs per division. This helps you understand the margins on your Cargo operations versus Passenger services and ensures cross-charging is accurate.

Does this help with data compliance audits like FAA or GDPR?

It helps significantly. We ensure your data retention policies are actually being followed automatically, so when an auditor asks if you are retaining logs for the required 7 years, you can prove it instantly.

Can you help reduce our Mainframe or Legacy connection costs?

Indirectly, yes. By helping you identify inefficient queries or chatty applications that talk to the mainframe, we reduce the data transfer volume, which lowers your connectivity bill.

How much will be the transfer costs for our global fleet?

We visualize exactly which regions are talking to each other. Often, a simple configuration change to keep traffic within the same availability zone or region can save thousands in egress fees.

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