Enterprise Customer Saves Over $267,000 in Cloud Costs with Cloudshot
How a global IT services provider and AWS Premier Partner streamlined multi-cloud management and cut costs using Cloudshot.
Enterprise Customer success story
$267,000+
Annual Cost Savings
6+ Hours
Weekly Time Saved
1 Hour
Setup Time
Background
Our customer is a global IT services firm and AWS Premier Partner managing a complex multi-cloud environment across numerous accounts, regions, and clients.
As their infrastructure expanded to support both internal and client projects, the complexity of tracking cloud usage and costs increased significantly. Manual reporting processes consumed valuable time, and unexpected billing spikes became a recurring issue.
The Challenge
The customer team found it increasingly hard to answer basic cost-related questions:
- "Which accounts are driving this month's spike?"
- "Which projects have idle or untagged resources?"
- "Can we confidently forecast our next cloud bill?"
Reporting was manual and time-consuming. It took more than 6 hours every week just to prepare reports for stakeholders.
They also struggled with accountability. It wasn't clear who owned which resources, and tags were often missing or inconsistent. And when costs spiked unexpectedly, they would notice only after the invoice arrived.
Key Challenges:
- Difficulty tracking costs across accounts and projects
- Time-consuming and manual reporting processes
- Unclear reasons behind rising monthly cloud bills
- Missed opportunities to optimize and reduce costs
The Solution
The team was looking for a solution that was:
- Quick and easy setup
- Support for multiple AWS accounts and cloud providers
- Clear cost breakdowns by team, project, and region
- Proactive detection of cost spikes
- Automated alerts and insightful reporting
Cloudshot checked all the boxes.
Within an hour of onboarding, they had connected their accounts and were viewing cross-account costs in a single dashboard. There was no engineering effort needed.
Cloudshot offered:
- Cost Optimization Report: In-depth insights into resource usage across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Actionable Recommendations: Optimization steps tailored to the customer's specific infrastructure.
- Visibility into Potential Savings: Accurate estimation of cost-saving opportunities.
- One-Click Implementation: Fast application of optimization recommendations with minimal effort.
- Real-Time and Proactive Monitoring: Live monitoring and alerts for cost anomalies and resource trends.
The Results
With Cloudshot in place, the customer was able to:
- Immediate visibility into costs by business unit and client
- Identification of untagged and idle resources with cleanup suggestions
- Budget alerts and anomaly detection for proactive cost management
Annual Cost Saving for Customer
$267,000+
These savings came from:
- Deleting unused resources, right-sizing the resources and optimizing the resources
- Early detection of cost spikes, preventing budget overruns
- Optimized shared services such as logging and monitoring
- Improved financial accountability across teams
They also saved hours every week in manual effort time that the CloudOps team could now spend on higher-value tasks.
Conclusion
Cloudshot provided the customer with an intuitive dashboard, fast deployment, and ongoing optimization insights.
The platform empowered their DevOps team with visibility and control without compromising performance or security.
Encouraged by the results, the customer plans to expand Cloudshot to more client-facing projects.
Cloudshot continues to support their goal of maintaining a lean and efficient cloud infrastructure.
Customer Testimonial
"Cloudshot has transformed how we manage our cloud costs. The visibility and controls have made a huge difference to our bottom line."
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