Automat-it, a trusted AWS Premier consulting partner specializing in DevOps and FinOps, provides a comprehensive solution to maximize cloud investment ROI for its startup customers. It creates cloud solutions focused on practical applications, delivering efficiencies that save customers time to market while optimizing performance and costs.

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Background

Automat-it is utilizing Umbrella’s innovative CostGPT platform to provide outstanding value for its clients. As the company grew, it identified the need for a more effective and scalable solution to enhance FinOps for its clients. To address this, Automat-it collaborated with Umbrella to incorporate its AI-powered CostGPT platform into their daily workflows. Umbrella’s AI features cutting-edge spend forecasting technology, offering remarkably accurate 30-day forecasts at any level of detail, as well as forecasts for daily and overall budget periods. Furthermore, Umbrella’s sophisticated generative AI chatbot, CostGPT – developed using Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic Claude – supports FinOps professionals in resolving both common and complex FinOps issues.

Partnering with Automat-it and leveraging their POC recommendations, Umbrella moved an agent to Amazon Bedrock from OpenAI and achieved a 30% classification performance improvement. The Amazon Bedrock-based classification agent, co-developed with Automat-it, addresses the complexity of cloud cost management by providing straightforward answers to complex queries, such as:

  • Listing services launched within a specific timeframe.
  • Calculating cost savings from optimization efforts across different regions.
  • Determining the percentage coverage of various EBS storage types.
  • Identifying services most impacted by anomalies and accounts with significant cost increases.
  • Amazon Bedrock’s flexibility, scalability, and simplicity enabled Umbrella to test alternatives to GPT-4. Benchmarking and evaluation led to the selection of Claude 2 for usage with one of the agents, which proved to be 30% faster while maintaining similar performance levels to GPT-4.

Solution: Umbrella’s CostGPT

 

Automat-it empowers its clients with Umbrella’s innovative CostGPT platform to deliver exceptional value. As the company grew its customer base rapidly, the demand for a more efficient, scalable solution for optimizing FinOps became evident. Automat-it integrated Umbrella’s AI-driven CostGPT platform into its clients’ daily operations, as well as using Umbrella to manage Amazon EC2 savings plans and reserve instances for its clients.

Results

 

With the implementation of Umbrella CostGPT, Automat-it enabled their clients to achieve a 30% increase in operational efficiency thanks to several key capabilities:

  • Efficient Onboarding of FinOps Engineers: Automat-it quickly onboarded engineers to support clients with access to CostGPT. This allowed engineers to understand client-specific FinOps practices swiftly, enabling them to provide impactful guidance and support immediately.
  • Fast Client Insights without UI Hassle: CostGPT enabled Automat-it’s team to bypass complex interfaces, allowing instant access to real-time summaries of each client’s cloud costs. This improved their ability to provide quick, accurate support and proactive cost management, directly benefiting their clients.
  • Immediate Cost-Saving Opportunities: CostGPT helped Automat-it identify quick wins for clients by providing AI-driven insights and actionable recommendations. Automat-it could proactively advise clients on optimizing workloads and reducing cloud spending, solidifying their role as a trusted strategic partner.
  • Rapid Pricing Queries for Optimal Decision-Making: Automat-it’s ability to quickly assess pricing through CostGPT enabled it to recommend the most cost-effective configurations for clients’ workloads. Leading to smarter financial decisions and strengthened client trust with immediate,data-driven consulting.

Ira Cohen, Umbrella Co-Founder, expresses his excitement about the solution:


“I’m incredibly proud of my team for bringing CostGPT to life. Collaborating with professionals like the Automat-it team and leveraging Amazon bedrock solution has been a fantastic experience. The future of CostGPT is bright, with automation for processes, structures, and recommendations on the horizon.”

 

Ziv Kashtan, CEO of Automat-it, praised the partnership, stating:


“Our partnership with Umbrella is a testament to our shared commitment to innovation in FinOps. Together, we’re pushing the boundaries and addressing comprehensive FinOps solutions to the market.”

Conclusion

 

Through its partnership with Umbrella, Automat-it transformed its service offerings, achieving a 30% efficiency boost for clients. By making CostGPT accessible to startups, they significantly enhanced customer satisfaction by providing real-time insights and cost-saving opportunities into cloud costs. Umbrella’s AI-powered platform makes Automat-it a leading customer-focused FinOps provider by delivering faster insights and more accurate support.

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About Umbrella

Umbrella’s multi-cloud cost management platform, built as SaaS primarily on AWS, leverages Amazon’s EKS Kubernetes compute orchestration platform, Redshift, and DynamoDB for data warehousing and analytics, and Cognito for identity, providing customers with high levels of security, availability, and scalability.

 

Umbrella’s AI capabilities include market-leading spend forecasting technology that delivers near-perfect 30-day forecasts at any level of granularity, along with daily and total budget period forecasts. Additionally, Umbrella’s advanced generative AI chatbot, CostGPT – developed using Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic Claude – assists FinOps practitioners in addressing common and advanced FinOps challenges.


Umbrella is a business unit of Anodot, recognized as a Differentiated-level AWS Software partner through the AWS Machine Learning Competency.