Cloud spend grows, complexity increases and waste spirals out of control
Global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) spending has surpassed $182 billion and continues to grow. At the same time, AI/ML costs are impacting 45% of organizations, which struggle to allocate shared costs and connect AI investment to business value. Without visibility or control, 30% of cloud spending is simply wasted.
of growing cloud expenditure is wasted — reducing that waste is the #1 priority
Rising Spend
IaaS will exceed $182B globally; without control, budgets overflow with no visibility
Multi-Cloud Complexity
Managing workloads and costs across AWS, Azure and GCP simultaneously without unified tooling
Excessive Waste
Over-provisioned resources, idle instances and unoptimized commitments generate millions in losses
Lack of Alignment
IT, Finance and Business speak different languages; without FinOps, decisions lack economic grounding
Consequence: Without a centralized FinOps platform, organizations lose millions on unoptimized resources, lack real visibility into spending and cannot demonstrate the return on their cloud investment.
The Solution: IBM Cloudability
IBM Cloudability is the market-leading FinOps solution, designed to deliver maximum cost visibility and savings. It enables organizations to manage, optimize and govern their spending across multiple clouds from a single platform, connecting IT, Finance and Business teams around informed financial decisions. Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tools.
- Reduces cloud unit costs by 30% or more
- Allocates 100% of cloud program costs
- Increases commitment coverage to over 90%
A best-practices framework to maximize the business value of the cloud
Inform
Visibility & Allocation
Gain complete visibility into cloud spending with detailed dashboards, cost allocation by team, project or application, and real-time anomaly detection.
Optimize
Rates & Usage
Automate resource optimization, manage discount commitments, eliminate waste and rightsize instances with AI-driven recommendations.
Operate
Continuous Improvement & Operations
Establish a sustainable FinOps culture with budgeting, forecasting, benchmarking and financial governance that evolves alongside your business.
Each role gets the visibility and tools needed to own and manage cloud spend
Engineering
Cloud Engineering Teams
Technical experts responsible for the design, management and optimization of cloud infrastructure. Cloudability gives them granular resource consumption visibility, rightsizing recommendations and anomaly alerts to act before waste escalates.
- Instance rightsizing with calculated financial impact
- Cost allocation at container and Kubernetes level
- Anomaly detection and real-time spend alerts
FinOps Practitioner
FinOps Practitioners
The bridge between business, engineering and finance. Cloudability empowers them to establish and operate the organizational FinOps culture, with unified dashboards, cost allocation rules and executive reports aligned with FinOps Foundation frameworks.
- Unified multi-cloud dashboard (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Business Mapping for flexible cost allocation
- Automated reports and stakeholder exports
Finance
Finance and Accounting Teams
Responsible for accurate forecasting, budget management and cost allocation with regulatory compliance. Cloudability offers them full financial control with precise projections and traceability of every dollar invested in the cloud.
- Budgeting and forecasting by organizational entity
- Automatic showback and chargeback to departments
- Financial governance and audit compliance
Leadership
CIO, CTO and Executives
Guide organizational alignment by connecting FinOps initiatives to business objectives. Cloudability provides executive visibility into cloud ROI, competitive benchmarking and unit economics metrics for strategic decisions.
- Executive dashboards for ROI and business value
- Unit economics: cost per customer, transaction or product
- Efficiency benchmarking vs. industry peers
Procurement
Procurement and Sourcing Teams
Manage cloud service procurement and vendor relationships. Cloudability enables them to optimize commitment contracts (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans), maximize discounts and ensure optimal commitment program coverage.
- Automated Reserved Instances and Savings Plans management
- Commitment coverage above 90%
- Contract analysis and renewal recommendations
Product
Product Managers and Product Teams
Drive business value by defining initiatives and communicating cloud technology benefits. Cloudability connects infrastructure cost to product metrics, enabling customer profitability analysis and margin optimization.
- Profitability analysis by customer and segment
- Infrastructure cost linked to product KPIs
- Integration with Jira, Datadog and PagerDuty
Everything you need for mature cloud financial management
Cost Transparency
Detailed insights, comprehensive analytics and flexible reporting to manage all cloud program costs
Anomaly Detection
Automatically identifies unexpected spend spikes and alerts teams before they impact the budget
Commitment Management
Automates the purchase and management of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans to maximize discounts
Intelligent Rightsizing
Automatic recommendations to resize instances without sacrificing application performance
Container Costs
Granular cost allocation in Kubernetes and containerized environments for full visibility
Unit Economics
Connects infrastructure costs to business metrics: cost per customer, transaction or product
Business Mapping
Assigns and distributes cloud costs by teams, projects, applications or any business dimension
Integrations
Integrates with Jira, Datadog, PagerDuty and the leading clouds: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and more
Real, measurable results from the first month
Reduction in cloud unit costs
Cloud program cost allocation
Achievable commitment coverage
Time to value from day one
Only cloud billing credentials and 1 person are required to get started. Xatrix Technologies guides the entire implementation and FinOps adoption process.