Case Study: Siemens achieves stronger cloud governance and 20% cost savings with CloudCheckr

CloudCheckr is the engine driving cloud governance at Siemens

Siemens’ Railigent Application Suite (Siemens Mobility) needed a way to monitor and govern its AWS-based ecosystem to protect rail infrastructure, catch security misconfigurations in CI/CD workflows, and control cloud spend across sandbox, dev, test and production accounts. Siemens chose CloudCheckr (now part of Spot by NetApp) to provide an out-of-the-box cloud security and cost-governance solution for these challenges.

CloudCheckr delivered automated best-practice security checks, prioritized recommendations, self-healing automation, enhanced tagging and granular cost-allocation reporting across all Railigent AWS accounts. The vendor’s solution produced immediate security improvements, enabled 100+ Siemens users to monitor vulnerabilities and costs, and drove measurable savings — up to 20% in total cloud costs and 30–40% in RDS costs — while improving visibility and operational efficiency.

Siemens

Friedrich Gloeckner

Team Lead Architecture and Software Development