When DevGraph's own AWS costs were running into millions of dollars each month, across more than 40 accounts, CEO Rahul Subramaniam knew there must be unused and oversized infrastructure, along with other opportunities to shave costs.

Any business, small or large, will resonate with Subramaniam's situation. In fact, DevGraph said, Gartner predicts cloud waste will reach $US 21 billion by the end of 2021.

Yet, when the company searched for a tool to assist, it kept encountering the same problem.

“The tools told us what was wrong with our resource utilisation but did nothing to tell us how to remedy the situation. We also had a hard time applying manual fixes consistently and predictably,” Subramaniam said.

So, DevGraph applied its own skill to the problem and built CloudFix to analyse AWS deployments, find cost-saving opportunities, and automatically deploy fixes at scale - reducing cloud expense immediately.

The product worked so well that Subramaniam says for every million dollars of annual spend, DevGraph is recapturing about $10K of annualised savings every week, with an overall cost reduction of 52%.

CloudFix was not without challenge; the team had to make it identify resources to optimise without disrupting the rest of the infrastructure. After CloudFix runs, it provides teams with insights and recommendations. Selected recommendations will then be implemented. It was important to the DevGraph team the product was safe, secure and automated, with everything driven from the CloudFix dashboard.

The value to other enterprises was clear: “While we initially developed CloudFix for in-house use, we understood the level of demand for a solution that addresses this waste,” Subramaniam said.

You can check out CloudFix for yourself. The product is free for up to $100K in savings. 

You can see CloudFix in this official video: