How Visual Cloud Mapping Turned a $14K Leak Into Immediate Savings

 How Visual Cloud Mapping Turned a $14K Leak Into Immediate Savings

"Why are these 11 security groups active with no connections?"

That was the first question a cloud lead asked when they saw their environment visualized by Cloudshot.

In under five minutes, they identified:

  • Dozens of unused, charging security groups

  • Detached but active EBS volumes

  • Unused subnets from decommissioned apps

  • Legacy components still burning budget

They’d been reviewing cost analytics for months. Yet nothing had revealed these inefficiencies.

Because lists and charts don’t tell the whole story.

The Visibility Crisis in Cloud Infrastructure

Today’s cloud teams are stretched across AWS, GCP, and Azure — managing a vast sea of services.

But visibility doesn’t scale with complexity.

Idle resources hide in plain sight. Old environments quietly drain budgets. And nobody knows until it’s too late.

Worse, traditional monitoring tools fail to surface this waste, instead offering siloed snapshots and stale exports.

Cloudshot's Visual Map Solves That — Instantly

Cloudshot maps your infrastructure visually and in real time — giving teams a live blueprint of what's running, where, and how.

This isn't just data. It's context.

Every EC2, subnet, or storage volume is visually positioned and enriched with metadata, policies, and cost info.

With that visibility, teams make better decisions, faster.

This Team’s Week-One Wins:

✅ Decommissioned 20+ idle assets
✅ Removed 11 misconfigured security groups
✅ Cleared out old, orphaned volumes
✅ Reduced spend by $14K/month
✅ Built dashboards for team-specific accountability

Their reaction?

"Cloudshot helped us stop spending on what we didn’t even know was still running."

What Sets Cloudshot Apart

  • Unified provider coverage: AWS, GCP, and Azure in one live map

  • Instant updates: Every change is reflected immediately

  • Clickable intelligence: Access metadata, alerts, and tags instantly

  • Team-wide visibility: Shared views across engineering, ops, and finance

This is cloud reality — not guesswork.

Eliminate Waste Before It Builds

Cloudshot makes it possible to spot inefficiencies before they become liabilities.

And once you see it, you can fix it.

👉 Start your free trial or schedule your demo now — and stop flying blind in the cloud.

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