Virtual machines and containers are often sized for rare demand spikes, leaving environments underutilized and budgets strained. At the same time, governance tools surface issues only after spending has occurred, and static autoscaling thresholds can’t keep pace with real-time changes in workload demand.

These inefficiencies accumulate quietly – across idle development environments, unattached storage, and outdated snapshots – reducing available resources for modernization that advance agency missions.

Download this issue brief to explore a practical framework for managing cloud cost and performance, without adding complexity.