Case Study: One More Cloud achieves team-wide AWS cost visibility and saves hours with CloudForecast

How One More Cloud Leverages CloudForecast's Slack Integration to Bring AWS Cost visibility to Their Team

One More Cloud (OMC) is a hosted search provider (Websolr and Bonsai) running hundreds of EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts and regions. Dru Sellers, VP of Engineering, was spending about three hours a week running a custom script, digesting AWS data and emailing management because AWS Cost Explorer access was limited — so OMC needed faster, team-friendly cost visibility. They adopted CloudForecast, using CloudForecast’s visual reports, weekly email overviews and Slack integration to surface AWS spend across the company.

CloudForecast delivered automated, visual cost reports, daily postings and RI-expiry notifications into Slack and email, giving teams visibility without broad AWS access. As a result, Dru cut his reporting time from roughly three hours a week to a few minutes, engineers quickly spotted and shut off an unexpected S3 cost spike, and CloudForecast’s RI alerts helped avoid missed renewals that saved thousands of dollars — all improving spending transparency and faster cost-led decisions.

One More Cloud

Dru Sellers

Vice President of Engineering