01/ Signal · Cost efficiency
Cloud Optimization Cloud & SaaS cost optimization
Cutting cloud and SaaS spend is the fastest route to cost efficiency. Code is cheap now: when the cloud tool costs more than the problem it solves, building your own solution stops being a luxury and becomes the sensible option.
- Reduce waste
- Re-architect what matters
- Build when buying stops making sense
- Cost of code
- Five years ago a custom tool meant a team and a quarter. Today it is a fraction of that, and the line between building and buying has moved with it.
- Cost of the tool
- Subscriptions, seats, traffic and idle capacity add up quietly. Nobody re-reads that invoice against the problem it was bought to solve.
- Net benefit
- We put the tool, the build and doing nothing on the same sheet: integration, maintenance and supervision included.
- Scalable
- Efficient
- Future ready
You are here if
- SaaS or cloud spend grows faster than the business
- You pay for capacity that sits idle most of the month
- The architecture was right three sizes ago
- You are unsure whether to keep, replace or build
For instance
A services company pays per seat for a suite it uses for a single workflow. That workflow is a week of code. The subscription renews every month.
How we build our own
CDEV, our own product, exists because the tool we needed did not: continuous development for coding agents, built rather than bought.
What it can become
- Cost & architecture study (FinOps)
- Cloud optimization
- Migration / modernization
- Custom solution, when justified
