How One Missed Shutdown Burned $42K in 16 Days

 How One Missed Shutdown Burned $42K in 16 Days

The engineering team spun up a powerful GCP instance to test a new feature.
It was never shut down.

Sixteen days later, $42,000 had quietly leaked—without a single person noticing.

This wasn’t a massive traffic surge.
It was a slow, unnoticed climb—draining 11% of the startup’s quarter.

Tracing it back? That took even longer.

Why it happened:

💸 Lack of real-time cloud monitoring
The team relied on GCP’s summary views.
No one saw daily spend drift.
No alerts, no guardrails.

🧩 DevOps and Finance in different lanes
DevOps had visibility into workloads.
Finance had numbers, but no links.
There was no shared language between them.

🔕 Late, vague billing alerts
The alert finally came—after the damage.
It lacked source, user, and purpose. Useless in a crisis.

That’s when they brought in Cloudshot—for proactive cloud issue detection, not reports.

Results they saw:

✅ Spend drift flagged in 3 days
Cloudshot’s baseline intelligence detected the deviation immediately.
The team acted before it spiraled.

✅ Usage mapped directly to users and services
The cost trail led to the exact project and engineer.
No silos. Just clarity.

✅ $18K saved from future anomalies
Two more misconfigured jobs were flagged and shut down—no meetings, just action.

Now, they’re no longer waiting on invoices.
They see issues as they emerge—real-time cloud alerts with context.

In their CFO’s words:
“Cloudshot gave us a shared truth—and that truth saved our quarter.”

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