“CloudBolt’s mission is simple: Help customers maximize cloud value.”

For more than ten years, CloudBolt has focused on helping organizations optimize the value they derive from cloud technologies. Acknowledging the needs of both public and private clouds, including sovereign clouds and data centers, CloudBolt gives businesses the possibility of managing cloud infrastructure as an integrated whole entity. This model aims to support continuous innovation through optimized costs. CloudBolt's Augmented FinOps is an orchestration and automation tool with advanced AI and ML capabilities, designed to support companies moving from a "Cloud First" to a "Cloud Right" strategy. It aims to simplify cloud financial management, governance, and resource allocation so that organizations can better manage their complex cloud environments and drive operational efficiency. CloudBolt is positioned to enable businesses to scale their cloud operations more effectively, yet control costs and remain agile.

Key Solutions

Augmented FinOps

CloudBolt has three main points of advancement regarding Augmented FinOps that create a difference as compared to normal FinOps processes and offer continuing value to their customers.

AI at the Core

Using AI and ML, CloudBolt provides users with cost insight that improves observation and analysis but is personalized in terms of personas or business needs to ensure informed decisions regarding cloud-related expenditure.

Full Lifecycle Automation

Augmented FinOps applies automation to the entire lifecycle of cloud resources. It is integrated with automated processes that will ensure that decisions are based on real-time data-driven information for efficient management of cloud resources.

FinOps for Any Cloud

Through CloudBolt, a combined control framework with public and private clouds is delivered as a singular operational entity that makes cloud resources easy to administer, providing any business with one-click access in an easy and streamlined user experience, and gives centralized access in various cloud settings.

CloudBolt Platform

Bring all cloud finances into Focus

CloudBolt helps organizations manage every cloud, whether private, public, or container-based, by providing comprehensive visibility and control over cloud finances.

Hybrid Cloud Reporting

CloudBolt offers an advanced cloud cost management solution, integrating with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) to deliver complete insights into cloud spending. The CloudBolt Agent provides businesses with visibility across a diverse set of cloud platforms, including VMware, OpenShift, OpenStack, Oracle Cloud, and others. This improves control over resources and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by optimizing cloud usage. CloudBolt makes complex FinOps reporting easier by giving users transparent, actionable data to continually optimize multi-cloud environments, drive operational excellence, and enhance financial transparency across their entire cloud infrastructure.

Enterprise Integration

CloudBolt makes cloud management better by integrating well with different communication, IT service management (ITSM), and DevOps tools. With real-time cost updates, budget alerts, anomaly detection, and forecast notifications, CloudBolt keeps users informed through their preferred communication platforms like Slack and Teams. It also integrates bi-directionally with ITSM tools for budget management, approval workflows, and ticket creation. For cloud engineers, CloudBolt offers smart insights and visibility within DevOps tools, encouraging active participation in FinOps. In addition, CloudBolt allows integration into existing workflows via webhooks or APIs, ensuring smooth collaboration across all organizational tools and platforms.

Kubernetes Cost Management

Shared cost visibility and allocation for Kubernetes - CloudBolt provides granular, real-time insights into performance data at the container level, enabling CloudOps teams to precisely allocate costs while aligning well with FinOps practices. This platform also applies machine learning-driven recommendations to automatically rightsize by continuously optimizing the Kubernetes resource settings, reducing overprovisioning, and making sure that application performance is maximized. By integrating Kubernetes clusters into organization-wide cost optimization workflows, CloudBolt helps improve cloud ROI by proactively managing Kubernetes spend and efficiency at scale. These features enhance the Kubernetes cost management of organizations and ensure consistent, efficient cloud resource utilization across their infrastructure.

Democratize Financial Insights Across All Cloud Users

CloudBolt has a very intuitive platform through which it delivers insight, reporting, showback, and chargeback, and its cloud financial data is accessible and actionable for everyone involved.

Allocation and Chargeback

CloudBolt provides capabilities that manage ever-changing financial contexts and eliminate the guessing game by having clear and accurate cost allocation in multi-cloud environments. Its self-service reporting tool fully aligns with unique financial logic and methodologies in terms of cost allocation, so businesses can achieve insight that best matches their specific requirements. It makes chargeback more accurate, automated, and integrated, making the accountability go high by being able to confidently return the cloud expense to the proper business units. With continuous tracking, predictive budgeting, and real-time alerts, CloudBolt helps organizations keep ahead of financial trends, making sure that their cloud investments stay aligned with their overall financial goals and continuously optimized for cost efficiency.

FinOps Administration

CloudBolt simplifies FinOps by automating common platform tasks, freeing up teams to concentrate on value creation instead of administrative tasks. With enterprise-grade segmentation, CloudBolt adapts to unique organizational structures, whether it's using a tenant-based, parent-child, or hybrid model, and this ensures flexibility to meet different needs. Customizable margins and discounts are also supported by the platform, which helps businesses tailor their pricing at all levels-from cloud-specific to individual resources or business groups-and, therefore, accurately reflect costs. For global operations, CloudBolt automatically converts cloud costs into the desired currency, offering seamless financial management across regions. This full automation enhances efficiency and reduces complexity in managing multi-cloud finances.

Amplify Impact with Artificial Intelligence

With AI-powered insights, CloudBolt helps reduce the time spent on data wrangling, enabling organizations to make effective use of financial data in decision-making.

Enhanced Insights

CloudBolt simplifies cloud financial management with Conversational AI, enabling stakeholders to easily access insights and answers in a natural, user-friendly way. The platform zeroes in on key metrics, helping users quickly analyze the health of their cloud spend by eliminating unnecessary data overload. CloudBolt's FinOps Performance Index™ offers a comprehensive, single metric to assess how a company's cloud management measures up against industry standards. In addition, bespoke dashboards and reports are focused on the particular needs of FinOps stakeholders across the organization. This ensures each stakeholder will have the required visibility and actionable insights to drive optimization of cloud cost and minimize waste efficiently.

Automate to Act at Scale

It automates FinOps policies to help businesses scale their cloud financial operations, thereby reducing the manual intervention in cost optimization and accelerating the same.

Continuous Cost Optimization

CloudBolt will enable cost optimization with a single view for the cost owners, allowing them to quickly identify the savings opportunities in all the clouds. The business can build and automate the policies for optimization across the different existing engineering workflows. This includes pipelines for CI/CD, communication tools, and ITSM systems. After a policy is implemented, CloudBolt continuously monitors it and automatically makes adjustments to realize savings while keeping cloud cost waste at a minimum. With rapid response times to anomalies or opportunities, CloudBolt helps businesses maximize savings while scaling their FinOps practices efficiently.

Cost Policy Management

CloudBolt automates cloud optimization by eliminating human-driven waste accumulation through cloud-native actions. The platform offers flexible, controllable policy definitions that enable fine-grain control over cloud resources. CloudBolt seamlessly integrates into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows, ensuring fast, relevant policy execution to drive continuous cost optimization while maintaining security and stability in operations.

Commitment Management

CloudBolt offers customized analysis for informed purchasing, thereby allowing strategic acquisition of reserved instances and savings plans. Its detailed modeling tools support different terms and types of resources that help businesses realize significant savings. The platform also simplifies management and tracking with proactive alerts for usage, expirations, and renewals to ensure timely action and maximum savings.

Craig Hinkley - CEO

Craig Hinkley is the CEO of CloudBolt, who has extensive experience in leadership in the technology sector. He graduated from Swinburne University of Technology with a degree in Bachelor of Information Technology. Mr. Craig was formerly the CEO at WhiteHat Security, where he led a company transformation that brought about a profit acquisition by NTT. He also had VP & General Manager roles at LogLogic, which was later acquired by Tibco Software and HP Enterprise's Networking Division. Well known for his very clear vision in connecting the dots, Craig lives by the simple mantra, "Life is about progress, not perfection."

“Leveraging advanced automation and orchestration and utilizing AL/ML, our Augmented FinOps solution is further accelerating how customers evolve from Cloud First to Cloud Right.”