Eight accounts, zero unified visibility
A fast-scaling payments platform had grown its AWS footprint across 8 accounts over five years of rapid expansion. What started as a single-account setup had become a sprawling multi-account architecture with no unified tagging strategy, no cross-account cost visibility, and no automated governance.
Their engineering team knew they were overspending - anomaly spikes regularly appeared in monthly bills, but by the time they were noticed, the damage was done. Rightsizing was manual, infrequent, and conservative - engineers were reluctant to change production resource allocations without data to back the decision.
With transaction volumes growing 40% year-over-year, the team needed to scale without their cloud bill scaling proportionally. They couldn't hire a FinOps team fast enough to keep pace.
Real-time intelligence across all accounts
Nudgebee's AI-FinOps Assistant connected to all 8 AWS accounts within a day, establishing a unified cost topology without requiring any infrastructure changes. It immediately began correlating spend across accounts, services, and environments.
The platform also used Nudgebee's Agentic Workflow Builder to create custom cost governance workflows - automatically notifying teams when spend exceeded budgets, and triggering reserved instance purchase recommendations when utilization patterns justified the commitment.
$2.4M recovered. No FinOps team hired.
The payments platform now runs a continuous FinOps process without dedicated FinOps headcount. Cost anomalies are caught in minutes. Rightsizing is automated. Every team has real-time visibility into their cloud spend - and the accountability that comes with it. The $2.4M in recovered waste was reinvested into engineering capacity and new product development.