KCare uncovers new savings and unlocks distributed cloud cost ownership with Cloudthread

With a complex environment resulting from mergers of different companies and architectures, it was a challenge for KCare to isolate, prioritize, and eliminate cloud cost waste. Cloudthread's best-in-class solution solved Kcare's need, from initial savings discovery to implementation across engineering teams.
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KCare
KCare offers intuitive case management and behavioral health EHR solutions for modern social service agencies.
k-care.com
Engineering team size
15
Total employees
75
Highest spend cloud services
EC2
S3
VPC
Cloudthread uncovered tens of thousands in monthly savings that weren't visible in Trusted Advisor and Compute Optimizer. Time is my team's most valuable asset - Cloudthread's savings dashboard lets me see waste in our environment and prioritize based on cost impact and effort.
Benjamin Levenson
Director of Resilience and Acceleration
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The Problem

Leadership and Finance want Engineering visibility into cloud cost savings possibilities and the ability to understand whether there’s any potential for waste elimination if it becomes a priority.

Cloud cost management is one of many responsibilities Engineering has. Their most valuable asset is time. Taking the time to look for savings opportunities, manage their completion, and implement them was another task on an already full plate.

KCare was using native AWS cost visibility tools in order to manage costs but these were falling short in terms of uncovering all the savings potential, integrating with existing engineering workflows, and providing analytics back to Leadership/Finance.

The Solution

Cloudthread uncovers savings beyond native tools and helps turn recommendations into realized savings so that KCare can pour wasted cloud spend into growth.

Cloudthread helps KCare:

  • Identify 3x more savings opportunities than native AWS recommendations
  • Engage engineering teams through Jira integration
  • Lower barrier of action for engineering by providing usage context natively
  • Provide Finance with visibility into savings potential and realized savings achieved

The Results

Saving money: Cloudthread uncovered tens of thousands in monthly savings for KCare with the platform’s 50+ savings opportunities.

Saving time: KCare’s team saves time on cloud cost reporting, finding savings opportunities, prioritizing them based on cost impact and difficulty, and implementing savings.

Engineering action: By integrating with Jira the savings opportunities fit into KCare’s engineering sprints and don’t get forgotten in a spreadsheet or a Slack thread.

Cloud cost governance: Visibility into savings and waste over time for Enginering, Finance, and Leadership.

The info in the savings thread made it very easy to track down!
Justin Ward
DevSecOps Manager

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