Cost Optimization

WAVE delivers 60% lower total cost of ownership compared to building and maintaining streaming infrastructure in-house. This isn't just about avoiding upfront capital expenditures—it's about eliminating the hidden costs that plague traditional approaches: staff salaries, hardware refresh cycles, power and cooling, software licenses, and ongoing maintenance.

Our intelligent resource optimization automatically scales infrastructure based on actual usage, ensuring you never pay for idle capacity. During off-peak hours, resources scale down automatically. During viral events or product launches, capacity scales up instantly without manual intervention or over-provisioning. This elasticity typically reduces infrastructure costs by 40-60% compared to static capacity planning.

Bandwidth costs are minimized through our 99.7% cache hit rate, meaning most content is served from edge locations without touching expensive origin infrastructure. Intelligent content delivery routes traffic through the most cost-effective paths while maintaining performance targets. Our CDN optimization typically reduces bandwidth costs by 50% compared to serving all traffic from origin.

Storage tiering automatically moves infrequently accessed content to lower-cost storage tiers, reducing storage expenses by up to 70% without any manual management. Popular content stays on fast SSD storage for instant access, while archival content moves to cost-optimized storage automatically based on access patterns.