Stop the CFO Shock: How to Regain Control of AWS Spend

 

Stop the CFO Shock: How to Regain Control of AWS Spend

It was supposed to be a quiet week—until a $12,000 AWS bill showed up. The engineering team was blindsided. Finance was furious. Nobody had a clear explanation.

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Cloud bills often spike without warning. And when they do, CTOs are left answering for decisions they didn’t directly make.

Where Cloud Spend Goes Off the Rails

🔻 Delayed Cost Visibility
Resources scale faster than budgets react. Without proactive alerts, cost spikes from non-production environments go unnoticed until it’s too late.

🔻 Tagging Inconsistencies
Without enforced tagging standards, there’s no visibility into ownership. Spend becomes a mystery—and accountability vanishes.

🔻 Fragmented Cost Tools
Your team toggles between dashboards, each showing partial truths. AWS shows one view. Azure another. Excel doesn’t help.

Suddenly, cloud cost isn’t just technical. It’s political.

Cloudshot Fixes What Finance Tools Miss

🧭 Live, Unified Spend Monitoring
Get a central view of AWS, Azure, and GCP costs in real time. Cloudshot replaces static reports with dynamic visibility.

🏷️ Tag Intelligence That Works Across Teams
Cloudshot fills in metadata gaps and attributes resources correctly—even when internal tagging is messy or missing.

📊 Granular Allocation by Function
Segment spend by team, service, or project. Engineering sees what they use. Finance sees true usage. Executives see ROI.

Discover how Cloudshot maps cloud cost to business units.

One Platform, One View, Fewer Surprises

A high-growth software company uncovered that nearly half of their cloud costs came from underused dev environments. After deploying Cloudshot, they quickly cut costs by over 20%.

Their CTO no longer waits for finance red flags. He sees the future—and budgets accordingly.

🔵 See Cloudshot in action
Cut the confusion. Deliver clarity. Make cloud spend something you manage, not fear.

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