If you’re using a FinOps tool to monitor your cloud spending, chances are you’ve seen those vibrant dashboards packed with colorful metrics, alerts, and recommendations. Maybe you've even taken their advice on "rightsizing" your instances or shutting down unused resources. But here’s the question: does all that really mean you’re optimized?
The short answer? Not even close
Many companies believe they’ve achieved peak cloud efficiency because their FinOps tools are firing on all cylinders. But the truth is, these tools often barely scratch the surface. They’re great at identifying low-hanging fruit—unused instances, over-provisioned resources, or standard savings opportunities—but they stop short of delivering true optimization. And the problem is, they’ve convinced an entire industry that these surface-level wins are enough.
Optimization Isn’t About Looking Good on Dashboards
Let’s call it what it is: conventional FinOps tools excel at making you feel in control. They deliver visibility, they nudge you toward better practices, and they make you look great in front of your boss. But optimization? That requires going deeper—much deeper.
Here’s the dirty secret: even if your cloud environment looks squeaky clean, substantial savings still hide in the cracks. These are the nuanced, complex opportunities that FinOps tools miss entirely. And why? Because they treat your constraints as immovable barriers instead of as opportunities to innovate.
Beyond the Basics: Turning Constraints Into Catalysts
At CloudyFit, we’ve spent years wrestling with this exact problem. What we’ve discovered is simple but profound: the key to real optimization lies in how you manage your constraints. Instead of viewing them as blockers, we treat them as fuel for innovation.
Take a typical cloud setup. Your infrastructure is dictated by countless business constraints: compliance requirements, latency thresholds, application interdependencies, and more. Standard tools see these constraints and shrug. They’ll tell you to downsize an instance or move to a reserved plan, but they won’t challenge the fundamental assumptions underpinning your environment. That’s where we come in.
Our technology—the result of R&D at ENS (French University)—is built on a constraint management engine that doesn’t stop at recommendations. It continuously refines, reallocates, and reconfigures your infrastructure to uncover savings that traditional approaches leave on the table. This isn’t about slapping on another layer of dashboards. It’s about rewriting the rules of optimization itself.
The "Last-Mile" Savings That Make All the Difference
Imagine extracting an additional 10%, 15%, or even 30% (this is what we get) efficiency from what you’ve been told is already "optimized." These "last-mile" savings exist in nearly every environment but are invisible to traditional approaches. Why? Because they require a granular understanding of the interplay between workloads, infrastructure, and constraints.
How do we do it? By integrating real-world business logic into the optimization process. Instead of treating your infrastructure as a collection of isolated resources, we view it as an ecosystem where every element interacts. And by using your unique constraints as starting points, we turn complexity into cost savings.
Let’s Redefine Optimization—Together
This is where we want to hear from you. Do you think dashboards and right-sizing are enough? Have you ever uncovered unexpected savings in a supposedly perfect system? Are constraints just blockers, or can they be tools for innovation?
We’re not here to preach—we’re here to challenge the status quo. Optimization is a journey, not a checkbox. Let’s debate it, explore it, and, ultimately, redefine what it means to truly optimize your cloud environment.
About CloudyFit
At CloudyFit, we specialize in uncovering the subtle, often elusive opportunities to reduce costs in your cloud environment—even when it seems impeccably optimized. Born from years of R&D at ENS, our unique approach transforms constraints into catalysts for efficiency. We go beyond dashboards and right-sizing to deliver dynamic, continuous optimization that integrates real-world business logic into every decision.