Know what drives your cloud costs

Will my CTO be comfortable with this?

Yes. CTOs are often our biggest fans. Cloud Capital uses the same secure, read-only access engineering teams already grant for reporting. Nothing touches production data, and nothing can be changed in your AWS account.

How is this different from AWS Cost Explorer or engineering dashboards?

Those tools show technical usage and only look backward. The Cloud Spend Report reframes spend in CFO terms: cost drivers, savings potential, and financial liabilities — ready for board slides.

I’m told our cloud spend is already optimized. Should I still do this?

Absolutely. Most engineering teams we meet say their cloud spend is already dialed in. And often, they’re right. The issue is, Finance can’t see or validate it. With the Cloud Spend Report, you get an independent, finance-ready view of cloud efficiency. That way, finance gets the confidence they need, and engineering gets fewer questions in their inbox.

What will I need from my team to set this up?

Setup takes less than 5 minutes. You’ll ask your engineering counterpart to grant read-only AWS access, a standard step they’re familiar with. Cloud Capital handles the rest.

Why do you offer this for free?

The Cloud Spend Report is our way of starting the conversation. If it helps uncover savings potential or financial liabilities and you’re interested in how Cloud Capital can support you longer-term, we’d love to have that conversation. If not, that’s fine too. We believe everyone benefits when CFOs embrace cloud finance.

What questions should I be asking my CTO about cloud spend?

Most finance leaders aren’t given a clear starting point. The Cloud Spend Report gives you the questions that matter: why spend is changing, where savings potential is being left on the table, and what financial liabilities commitments create. You’ll walk into the CTO conversation with a clear agenda and credible data.