When the VP of Engineering at a fast-growing SaaS company joined the call, his opening line set the tone: "We had five tools and zero alignment."
Their company wasn't new to cloud. They were scaling fast, deploying across AWS and Azure, and relying on Terraform to manage infrastructure. But the tools they had weren't working together.
And neither were their teams.
The Invisible Cost of Toolchain Sprawl
At first glance, they had everything:
Terraform for provisioning
CloudWatch for monitoring
DataDog for performance alerts
Manual IAM scripts for access tracking
Spreadsheets for billing analysis
But in reality, they were missing one critical piece: a single source of truth.
Each team was working from a different view:
- DevOps focused on provisioning and uptime, but had no cost or policy visibility.
- Security ran policy checks—manually—on a biweekly basis.
- Finance received usage reports long after the damage was done.
No team trusted the other's data. Every incident turned into a debate. And every optimization attempt felt like throwing darts in the dark.
Alignment Wasn't Just a Culture Problem. It Was a Visibility Problem.
The challenge wasn't just the number of tools. It was the absence of shared visibility—across clouds, across roles, and across time.
Terraform couldn't tell if the infrastructure had drifted
Billing reports couldn't explain a spike until weeks later
IAM misalignments weren't caught until after an audit flag
What this team needed wasn't another tool. They needed a control layer.
Enter Cloudshot: One Platform, Aligned Teams
After exploring several fragmented alternatives, the engineering team deployed Cloudshot. What happened next wasn't just a reduction in tooling. It was a transformation in how teams worked.
✅ Real-Time Topology Visibility
Cloudshot's patented engine visualized their entire infrastructure—AWS, Azure, and GCP—in a live, auto-refreshing topology map. No more toggling between Terraform files and cloud consoles. Every change was reflected instantly, enabling rapid troubleshooting and confident deployments.
✅ Unified Role-Based Dashboards
Instead of battling over who was "right," each team had a dashboard tailored to their needs:
This wasn't a single pane of glass—it was a shared pane of truth.
✅ Instant Drift Detection + Fixes
When Terraform drifted or IAM policies changed, Cloudshot flagged it immediately. Rather than discovering the issue post-incident, they could fix it in real time—with one-click remediation suggestions built in. The result? Fewer escalations. More velocity. Better trust.
5 Tools Retired. 3 Teams Aligned. 1 Platform That Changed Everything.
"Cloudshot didn't just consolidate our stack. It aligned our teams. For the first time, we're confident in our infra, our cost, and our compliance—all at once."
— VP Engineering, SaaS Platform, North America
By removing noise and increasing visibility, Cloudshot helped this company eliminate over $40,000/year in redundant tool spend—but more importantly, it eliminated silos between teams that couldn't afford to stay misaligned.
Ready to Retire Your Tool Sprawl?
If you're juggling multiple cloud tools, chasing alerts, and still feeling behind—you don't need another dashboard.
🧠 You need a control layer. One that unifies DevOps, Security, and Finance.