A growing SaaS startup had just crossed 80 paying customers. But their AWS bill? A jaw-dropping $9,300/month.
Not because they were scaling too fast. But because they were flying blind.
They were running 14 microservices across 3 regions. Multiple Kubernetes clusters. A staging environment for every team. And zero accountability for what was actually being used.
Infrastructure was overbuilt, under-monitored, and massively over-provisioned. Their cloud footprint looked impressive—on paper. But under the hood, it was bleeding them dry.
When the CFO finally challenged the DevOps team on the numbers, they had no answer.
Why were there environments that hadn't been touched in over a month?
Why were compute-heavy instances running 24/7 with near-zero utilization?
Who owned which services, and who was responsible for cleaning them up?
The Harsh Reality, They Didn't Know:
That's when they turned to Cloudshot.
Cloudshot Exposed the Waste — Automatically
In less than an hour of setup, Cloudshot lit up everything:
$5,800/month in idle and oversized resources
We mapped every instance, cluster, and volume—and layered usage data on top of it. Unused staging environments. Over-allocated VMs. Detached volumes billing silently.
3 untouched environments flagged immediately
Cloudshot's usage drift detection highlighted projects that hadn't seen activity in over 40 days—no code changes, no log traffic, no owner response.
Ownership clarity across teams, projects, and regions
With role-based tagging and visual mapping, the CFO could finally trace cost spikes back to the actual services and teams responsible.
By the end of the quarter:
- Their AWS spend dropped to $1,200/month
- Deployment became faster (and saner)
- And DevOps stopped firefighting infrastructure—and started shipping features
The Bigger Problem: Over-Engineering Without Visibility
This team's story isn't rare.
We've seen it across dozens of companies:
Big infrastructure built too early
Complex systems solving imaginary scale problems
DevOps spending more time maintaining infra than building product
No live insight into what's actually being used
And the result is always the same: Runway gets burned on cloud resources no one needs.
Cloudshot was built to prevent this.
Not through cost reports. Not with scripts and spreadsheet gymnastics. But with real-time optimization visibility baked into the way cloud teams work.
How Cloudshot Helps You Stop Paying for Unused Cloud:
Visual maps with usage overlays
See what you've provisioned—and how much of it is really being used.
Smart alerts for unused or underutilized infra
Cloudshot auto-detects waste across AWS, Azure, and GCP—and tells you before the invoice hits.
Team-level dashboards with ownership tagging
No more "who owns this?" moments. Everyone sees what they're responsible for—by name.
One-click optimization suggestions
Clean up or right-size resources without breaking a sweat. Cloudshot gives you action, not just alerts.
The truth is simple:
You don't need more environments. You don't need more scale. You need more visibility.
Cloudshot makes it automatic.
Start your free trial and stop paying for infrastructure you're not even using.
Take control of your cloud footprint today.