Overview
CloudThrottle Cloud Cost Optimization
Optimize cloud costs with CloudThrottle! Automate budget tracking, reduce cloud waste, and prevent overspending with real-time alerts. Gain full budget observability and control across accounts.
CloudThrottle is an advanced cloud cost optimization and budget management platform designed for startups, growing businesses, enterprises, and government agencies that need reliable and predictable cloud spending. With a comprehensive suite of FinOps features, CloudThrottle empowers organizations to maintain strict control over their AWS and multi-cloud expenditures, ensuring cost-efficiency, compliance, AWS budget automation, vendor management, and financial accountability. The platform is available in both SaaS and self-hosted versions, offering flexibility for diverse organizational and regulatory requirements.
Unified Multi-Account & Multi-Cloud Visibility: CloudThrottle simplifies management across multiple AWS accounts, AWS Organizations, and multi-cloud providers with a single unified console. This provides full visibility into cloud costs, streamlines operations, and reduces administrative overhead. Organizations can enforce consistent financial governance, improve operational efficiency, and align teams with proactive FinOps practices.
Multi-Level Thresholds and Escalation Workflows: Preventing budget overruns is at the core of CloudThrottle. The platform supports configurable multi-level thresholds and escalation workflows, ensuring cost anomalies are caught early. CloudThrottle checks budgets and spending frequently, giving proactive alerts before costs spiral out of control. Budget owners, managers, and executives receive escalation notifications that guarantee accountability and timely response. Automated Resource Scheduling for Cost Savings: The advanced AWS resource scheduling feature reduces unnecessary cloud spend by optimizing usage during off-hours. Development and testing environments, for example, can save up to 58% when resources are automatically paused outside business hours. This automation improves efficiency while freeing teams to focus on innovation rather than manual cost controls.
Vendor Management & Lifecycle Control: CloudThrottle extends financial governance beyond budgets with integrated vendor management. The platform helps organizations track vendor usage, allocate costs across teams or projects, and manage cloud contracts more effectively. With lifecycle controls, enterprises can align vendor commitments to budgets, enforce accountability across stakeholders, and ensure maximum value from every cloud vendor relationship.
Smart Budgets Aligned with TBM: CloudThrottle introduces Smart Budgeting features that align directly with TBM principles, enabling organizations to connect financial planning with real-time cloud operations. Budgets can be prorated, rolled over, and dynamically adjusted to reflect project burn rates and evolving priorities. With flexible slice-and-dice monitoring, CloudThrottle lets you track spending by department, division, business unit, product line, master account, or project with advanced cloud cost monitoring. By mapping budgets to TBM cost pools and service towers, finance leaders, IT teams, and executives gain complete transparency into where cloud dollars are going and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes.
Charge Code & Cost Allocation: CloudThrottle supports charge code tracking and AWS cost allocation, making it easy to assign cloud spend to specific projects, departments, or contracts. This ensures accurate chargeback and showback reporting across multiple accounts, helping organizations maintain financial accountability at every level. By linking spend directly to charge codes, CloudThrottle simplifies budget reconciliation and enforces transparency across both business and technical teams.
Compliance-Ready & Enterprise-Grade: CloudThrottle enables cost governance for organizations with strict compliance needs, vendor lifecycle management, and fixed-price projects. Startups, enterprises, and public sector agencies gain predictable, transparent cloud cost management aligned with regulatory and business standards. Built on proven frameworks in large-scale environments managing 100+ accounts, CloudThrottle has reduced non-production costs by up to 58%. It is the go-to platform for automated AWS budget management, cost optimization, predictable spending, and enterprise-grade financial governance.
AI Forecasting & Burn Rate Dashboards: CloudThrottle delivers real-time burn rate dashboards combined with AI-powered forecasting to keep budgets on track. Monitor daily, monthly, and cumulative burn rates, compare against allocated budgets, and identify deviations early. Forecasting models use historical consumption and pacing to project future spend, providing confidence bands that highlight both risk and opportunity. These forecasts are updated frequently, giving proactive early warnings so finance leaders and product owners can act before a budget breach occurs.
Highlights
- Maximize Budget Control: CloudThrottle is a FinOps platform for cloud cost optimization, delivering advanced budget monitoring, proration, rollover, and automated scheduling. It ensures predictable, transparent, and compliant cloud spending while enabling AWS and multi-cloud cost governance. With built-in budget automation and multi-account management, teams can allocate funds efficiently, prevent overruns, and stay audit-ready.
- Cut Cloud Waste with Smart Scheduling: CloudThrottle uses intelligent AWS and multi-cloud resource scheduling to reduce unused capacity, lower costs, and improve efficiency. Ideal for development and testing environments, organizations save up to 58% by automatically pausing non-production workloads during off-hours. This cloud automation boosts FinOps efficiency, optimizes performance, and drives predictable cost savings.
- Government-Ready Compliance: Purpose-built for federal cloud compliance and security, CloudThrottle unifies vendor management, contract lifecycle control, and budget governance. It supports fixed-price projects, prevents overspending, and enforces accountability across multi-account AWS and hybrid cloud environments. Designed for audit-ready operations and strict regulatory standards, it is available as SaaS or self-hosted for agencies requiring on-prem deployment.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Starter Subscription | This plan allows you to manage up to 20 scheduled cloud resources (EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS), 5 budgets for cost tracking, and 10 AWS accounts under CloudThrottle. | $7,200.00 |
Growth Subscription | The Growth Plan allows you to manage up to 50 scheduled cloud resources (EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS), 10 budgets for cost tracking, and 20 AWS accounts. Designed for teams needing more scalability and budget control. | $14,400.00 |
Scaling Subscription | The Growth Plan allows you to manage up to 120 scheduled cloud resources (EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS), 25 budgets for cost tracking, and 50 AWS accounts. Designed for teams needing more scalability and budget control. | $28,800.00 |
Self-Hosted | Self-hosted deployment is available exclusively for government and public sector organizations. Please request a quote so we can assess your infrastructure needs and provide a secure, compliant solution tailored to your requirements. To help agencies evaluate the platform with no risk, we also offer a free pilot/POC deployment so your team can validate the value of CloudThrottle before moving into production. | $1.00 |
Free Trial | Explore CloudThrottle's capabilities during your trial with up to 5 accounts, 3 budgets, and 10 scheduled resources ideal for small teams focused on cost control and cloud optimization. | $0.00 |
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Refunds are provided only if a cancellation request is submitted within 14 days of purchase and requires a formal request to support@cloudthrottle.com . All refund requests are subject to evaluation. For approved refunds, the cost of a 3-month subscription will be deducted to cover administrative and operational expenses.
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Email Support: Customers can email us at support@cloudthrottle.com for assistance with setup, troubleshooting, and general queries.
Phone Support: For urgent issues, call our support team at +1-571-295-7776 (available Mon-Fri, 9 AM to 6 PM EST).
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Support Levels: Standard Support: Includes email assistance during business hours. Premium Support: Includes on-call support, regular health checks, and training sessions (available with a premium plan). Response Time: We aim to respond to all support queries within 24 hours. Setup Assistance: Contact us for help with account setup and integration at integration@cloudthrottle.com .
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