*The $42K Test That No One Shut Down
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What started as a routine test ended up costing $42,000.

A high-memory instance spun up on GCP was left running—forgotten for 16 days.
By the time someone caught it, the quarter had already taken a hit.

That cost represented nearly 11% of their quarterly budget—and worse, no one knew how it happened.

The cracks in the system:

💸 No proactive cost detection
The platform’s default billing tools lacked insight.
Without real-time cloud alerts, the gradual drift flew under the radar.

🧩 Teams were operating in silos
Finance noticed the bill. DevOps knew the workload.
But no one had the full picture.

🔕 Vague alerts, zero context
A notification did arrive—but too late, and without the who, what, or why.

They turned to Cloudshot—a cost monitoring platform built for dynamic cloud environments.

With Cloudshot, they got:

✅ Baseline-aware cost deviation alerts
The system spotted spend anomalies in 3 days.
Not weeks later.

✅ User-level traceability
They could finally connect usage to cost—and cost to the team responsible.

✅ $18K more saved through automation
Ongoing anomalies were flagged before they got expensive.

Now, they don’t fear their next bill.
They trust Cloudshot to surface issues before they spiral.

As their CFO said:
“We stopped guessing. We started saving.”

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