Most teams don’t realise how much money is leaking out of their cloud environment until

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Most teams don’t realise how much money is leaking out of their cloud environment until the bill lands.

The leaks usually look small until they add up fast.

Here are the four biggest culprits we see in mid-market and enterprise environments:

Test environments, dev sandboxes, and “temporary” workloads that never get turned off.

Multiple teams solving the same problem with different tools.
Twice the cost, same outcome.

Buying more compute “just to be safe” but running at a fraction of the allocated capacity.

Old snapshots, orphaned storage, and abandoned apps quietly racking up dollars in the background.

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