The Hidden Costs of Your Cloud Business
Blog post from Stream.Security
Cloud business costs are notoriously difficult to pin down due to numerous variables, but a holistic approach can help by providing real-time simulations for a comprehensive understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) changes. The most substantial cost in cloud management is time, which is often spent on troubleshooting, understanding the overall picture, reviewing to avoid unexpected behaviors, searching through logs, and researching connectivity for configuration changes. Lightlytics offers a solution through a real-time dependency graph and CloudTwin technology, which provides a context-driven risk analysis to visualize the impact of configuration changes, substantially reducing the time and effort required for reviewing Terraform code changes and mitigating risks before deployment. Their system creates a full dependency graph, holds configuration history, and applies consistent architectural standards, aiming to reduce time spent on fixes, increase confidence, and eliminate false alarms. By addressing these time-related challenges, Lightlytics enhances control over cloud environments, ultimately helping engineers and managers manage their time and cloud resources more effectively.