Using Cloudability, Ibotta has greater and more accurate visibility into its AWS spending, all from a single dashboard within the Cloudability user interface. “With Cloudability, we get fast, comprehensive reporting and analysis of our AWS spending across all our accounts,” says Scott Bassin, director of engineering for Ibotta. “It has really eased the process, and we no longer have to rely on spreadsheets to do everything. We can even view AWS accounts by department, so we can quickly see that cost information without having to jump between different accounts.” With these capabilities, Ibotta can better plan its AWS spending. “We can evaluate our spending plans for the year and get a more realistic projection of those costs through Cloudability,” White says. “We can set a budget and watch that closely within the tool to make sure we don’t exceed it.”

By taking advantage of Cloudability’s anomaly detection, which is driven by machine learning, Ibotta can also more easily control its costs. “Using Cloudability, we discovered a misconfigured gateway in our AWS infrastructure that would have cost us $15,000 in one month,” says White. “Cloudability flagged that as a high-expense resource within a day of it showing up in the software, so we avoided that expense.”