Customer Profile
Kutuma Kenya Limited is a fast-growing logistics and delivery company based in Nairobi, Kenya. On a mission to revolutionize the delivery industry, Kutuma provides innovative, on-demand delivery services for retailers and restaurants across the country. By leveraging state-of-the-art technology, Kutuma is at the forefront of evolving Kenya’s trade markets, from small boutique businesses to large retail chains.Â
The Challenge
Their Google Cloud projects were scattered across different organizational nodes, creating silos that complicated access management and prevented a unified view of their resources. The company was also grappling with rising cloud costs due to idle, unoptimized resources and needed a way to scale their Google Cloud workloads to support their growth, but was constrained by the rising cloud spend. They also had a challenge as they needed to also retain and make sense of their App Engine logs. This data was crucial for gaining insights, but it was difficult to ingest and analyze effectively.
The Solution
To overcome these challenges, Kutuma partnered with Pawa IT Solutions, a leading Google Cloud partner in East Africa. Pawa IT provided comprehensive support, starting with a major project to centralize their cloud governance. The team successfully transferred all of Kutuma’s projects into a single, unified organization node. This move was critical for enabling seamless access management and providing clear visibility across all their cloud resources.
Pawa IT also provided expert support to help Kutuma ingest their logs into BigQuery, a powerful, fully managed data warehouse, which enabled Kutuma to perform in-depth analysis of their operational data.
Pawa IT’s team of certified experts then conducted a thorough review of Kutuma’s Google Cloud environment and identified idle resources that were contributing to unnecessary costs. By decommissioning these resources, Pawa IT was able to significantly reduce Kutuma’s cloud spending.
To support Kutuma’s long-term growth, Pawa IT helped them transition to Google Cloud’s Flex-commit contracts. This provided Kutuma with the additional credits and flexibility needed to scale their Google Cloud workloads in line with their business needs.
The Results
By partnering with Pawa IT, Kutuma Kenya Limited has unlocked significant value from its investment in Google Cloud. The company now has a scalable, cost-effective, and centrally managed infrastructure that can support its continued growth.
Key results include:
- Centralized Management & Visibility: Consolidating all projects under one organization node has streamlined resource management and improved security and visibility across their entire Google Cloud environment.
- Actionable Insights: Ingesting logs into BigQuery has enabled Kutuma to gain valuable insights from their data, leading to more informed business decisions.
- Reduced Costs: The deletion of idle resources has resulted in significant cost savings, allowing Kutuma to reinvest in other areas of the business.
- Enhanced Scalability: With the help of Flex-commit contracts, Kutuma now has the flexibility to scale its Google Cloud workloads as needed, without being constrained by credit limitations.
Customer Quote
“Pawa IT’s expertise in Google Cloud has been invaluable to us. Beyond the cloud implementation, they have not only helped us to reduce our costs and scale our infrastructure but have also empowered us to unlock the full potential of our data. Consolidating our projects has given us the control and visibility we desperately needed. With their support, we are well-positioned to continue our rapid growth and revolutionize the logistics industry in Africa. “
Deogratias Okango Finance ManagerÂ
