Cloud cost management is critical for scaling organizations, but relying on cloud vendors’ native tools often fails to deliver true FinOps excellence. Here’s why:
Challenges facing cloud providers’ native tools
inherent inefficiency
- Wasteful Spending Culture: Cloud providers often normalize inefficiencies, such as idle resources and over-provisioned instances, even internally.
- Hidden costs: Tools like AWS Cost Explorer charge users to generate insights, adding unexpected costs to your cloud bill.
Income-driven bias
- Providers prioritize selling more services over cost-saving advice, making their tools less effective for true optimization.
- Recommendations lack the deep engineering insights needed to solve complex cost savings challenges.
Limited complexity and usability
- Native tools often involve cumbersome processes and fragmented visibility, especially in multi-cloud environments.
- This makes it more difficult to gain actionable insights, leaving organizations with sub-optimal results.
real world lessons
- A large e-commerce platform saved 25% on cloud costs after migrating to a standalone FinOps platform, highlighting the limitations of AWS’s native tools.
- A financial services company reduced cloud spending by $5 million annually by replacing manual processes with a multi-cloud FinOps solution.
Why an independent FinOps platform like Cloudgov.ai is the solution
Fair advice:
Platforms like Cloudgov.ai have no revenue-driven bias and are purely focused on cost efficiencies in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Instant insights:
Immediate alerts on anomalies proactively manage dynamic cloud environments to prevent budget overruns.
Cloudy Simple:
Unified dashboards consolidate data from multiple cloud providers to make cost management intuitive and efficient.
focus
Cloud providers’ native tools are difficult to align with customer cost optimization goals. Learn more about it here. Independent FinOps platforms like Cloudgov.ai are built by industry experts to provide a transparent, efficient and unbiased approach to cost management in the cloud.
To achieve true FinOps excellence, choose solutions that are designed to eliminate inefficiencies rather than tied to the cloud provider’s revenue goals.