Both cloud spend management and optimization are indispensable to keeping costs under control.  However, as useful as cost management can be, it still requires a fair deal of manual work. Analyzing your setup, allocating costs to teams, understanding how much you’ve spent, finding better options, migrating your applications, and then checking up on them takes a lot of time and money.   While platforms like Kubecost take much of that work off your plate and provide you with outstanding recommendations for change, your engineers still need to implement these manually. Cloud cost optimization is the process of reducing your overall cloud spend by identifying mismanaged resources and eliminating waste. All of that can happen without lifting a finger if you go for an automated solution.