The 10-Minute Discovery That Slashed Cloud Costs by 18%

 

The 10-Minute Discovery That Slashed Cloud Costs by 18%

"We thought our infrastructure was streamlined—until Cloud Shot showed us the truth."

That was the eye-opening start to a conversation with a DevOps team that believed they had it all under control.

They weren’t flying blind.
They managed resources across AWS and Azure, spanning four regions and several environments.
No dramatic spikes, no unusual growth.

But every month, the CFO circled back with the same concern:

“Why are cloud expenses still this high?”

No red flags. No simple answers.
So they brought in Cloud Shot for visibility.

Within 10 minutes, the cracks began to show.

What They Found Wasn't Just Unexpected—It Was Costly

🟥 Underused VMs burning resources
Real-time usage showed several oversized VMs running at under 10% CPU—wasting capacity with no performance gain.

🟥 Staging environments behaving like production
A temporary test setup had silently grown into a heavy, permanent cluster.

🟥 QA clusters left idle for weeks
No activity. No traffic. Just compute quietly charging by the hour.

🟥 Missing or incomplete resource tags
No clear owners meant no one felt responsible—making it risky to shut anything down.

What They Did With Cloud Shot Changed Everything

✅ Optimized 32 instances across clouds
They immediately identified which VMs were bloated or idle—and right-sized or terminated them.

✅ Reviewed infrastructure using a real-time visual map
Cloud Shot gave them a single source of truth—no scripts, no guesswork.

✅ Established ownership through smart tagging
With team-based tags, accountability became part of their workflow.
Every team saw their own waste and knew exactly what needed to be done.

Within 3 weeks, they reduced their cloud bill by 18%—with zero service interruptions.

The Quiet Cost of Busy Teams

Cloud waste isn’t always dramatic.
It’s often the result of fast-moving teams doing good work—just without full visibility.

That’s where Cloud Shot comes in:
It surfaces waste before it spirals—giving you the power to act with clarity.

Cloud Shot Empowers Teams To:

✅ Visualize usage vs provisioned infrastructure across clouds
Instantly see which resources are underused or oversized across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

✅ Detect and flag idle, bloated, or outdated assets
No digging required. Cloud Shot highlights what to optimize automatically.

✅ Assign clear ownership to every deployed resource
With tagging aligned to your teams, nothing falls through the cracks.

✅ Optimize confidently with actionable insights
Know what to shut down, resize, or reconfigure—backed by real usage data.

This team didn’t re-architect.
They didn’t switch platforms.
They simply saw their cloud clearly—and took smarter actions.

👉 Start your free Cloud Shot trial and discover how much you can save.

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