Rightsizing is the appetizer, not the meal
Most cloud cost programs start with rightsizing dashboards and end at the limits of what dashboards can show. The compounding savings live one level up in platform engineering, golden paths and unit-economics observability.
CloudCatalyst™ treats cloud economics as a product discipline. Tagging strategy is a schema. Showback is a published API. Architecture choices are governed by published platform standards, not slide-deck guidance.
Where the next 20% of savings hides
After the obvious rightsizing wave, the next 20% lives in architecture standardization, data tiering, observability cost engineering and disciplined retirement of zombie workloads.
The organizations that capture it have a platform team accountable for unit economics not a finance team accountable for invoices.
- Treat cloud economics as a product discipline, not an invoice review.
- Unit-economics observability is the most under-built capability in cloud-mature enterprises.
- Platform standardization is where the second wave of savings lives.