The Problem
Leadership and Finance want Engineering visibility into cloud cost savings possibilities and the ability to understand whether there’s any potential for waste elimination if it becomes a priority.
Cloud cost management is one of many responsibilities Engineering has. Their most valuable asset is time. Taking the time to look for savings opportunities, manage their completion, and implement them was another task on an already full plate.
KCare was using native AWS cost visibility tools in order to manage costs but these were falling short in terms of uncovering all the savings potential, integrating with existing engineering workflows, and providing analytics back to Leadership/Finance.
The Solution
Cloudthread uncovers savings beyond native tools and helps turn recommendations into realized savings so that KCare can pour wasted cloud spend into growth.
Cloudthread helps KCare:
- Identify 3x more savings opportunities than native AWS recommendations
- Engage engineering teams through Jira integration
- Lower barrier of action for engineering by providing usage context natively
- Provide Finance with visibility into savings potential and realized savings achieved
The Results
Saving money: Cloudthread uncovered tens of thousands in monthly savings for KCare with the platform’s 50+ savings opportunities.
Saving time: KCare’s team saves time on cloud cost reporting, finding savings opportunities, prioritizing them based on cost impact and difficulty, and implementing savings.
Engineering action: By integrating with Jira the savings opportunities fit into KCare’s engineering sprints and don’t get forgotten in a spreadsheet or a Slack thread.
Cloud cost governance: Visibility into savings and waste over time for Enginering, Finance, and Leadership.
