"We planned for ₹60 lakhs. The actual cloud bill was ₹94 lakhs."
That's what a CFO told us during a recent demo.
No warning. No anomaly flag. Just a budget shock that hit the boardroom before it hit the dashboard.
And unfortunately, this isn't rare.
Forecasting Doesn't Work When You're Flying Blind
Today, most finance teams are expected to forecast cloud spend with only two things in hand:
- 1. A spreadsheet
- 2. Last month's invoice
Meanwhile, cloud usage grows dynamically across AWS, Azure, and GCP—with multiple teams launching, scaling, and tweaking services in real time.
The result? Your forecasts become recovery exercises instead of strategic tools.
Here's what we keep hearing from finance leaders:
"I only find out about overspend after the invoice arrives."
Idle volumes, unused environments, misconfigured autoscaling—they pile up silently, then explode into billing anomalies no one saw coming.
"We don't know who owns what."
Tags are missing. Teams are siloed. Accountability is shared (which really means it's no one's problem). When the budget breaks, finance gets the call.
"Chargebacks feel like blame, not visibility."
Engineering teams get defensive, not because they overspent—but because they were never shown what they own or how it's tracked.
"I have to explain things I didn't approve—or understand."
Finance gets left out of cloud decisions, but is still expected to defend the results. That's a governance gap waiting to become a board-level issue.
Cloudshot Fixes This—Without Adding More Work
Cloudshot was built to give CFOs and finance teams a seat at the table—without needing to become cloud experts or policy enforcers.
Here's how:
Forecast with confidence, not guesstimates
Cloudshot aligns real-time usage with forecast models across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You can view budget vs. actuals by business unit, app, or project—updated live.
Catch anomalies before they turn into crisis
Orphaned assets, untagged spend, unexpected scale-outs—all get flagged in real time. No more postmortem meetings about what went wrong.
Empower ownership instead of chasing it
Cloudshot links every resource to an owner, a team, and a purpose—so engineering can self-remediate issues without waiting on finance.
Turn cloud bills into business insight
Break down spend not just by provider—but by app, BU, initiative, or environment. See what's changing, and why it matters.
Make compliance reporting effortless
Audit-friendly reports, tagging enforcement visibility, and policy drift detection—ready to download or present on demand.
Real Outcomes. Real Stories.
"Our budget variance went from 34% to under 8% in one quarter."
— Controller, Fintech SaaS Company
"We got more answers from Cloudshot in 1 day than we used to get from 3 tools in a month."
— James Mitchell, Finance Controller, SaaS Enterprise
Finance Shouldn't Be the Last to Know
If your role is to lead strategy—not clean up invoices—Cloudshot helps you do just that.
You'll get the clarity, control, and cross-team visibility you need to stop defending costs… and start driving decisions.