How Kumu achieved 28% cloud cost reduction across 85% of their eligible fleet.
The challenge
Kumu's team is small and product-focused. Managing cloud commitments manually would have required dedicated time they didn't have — and the risk of getting coverage wrong was a real concern for a bootstrapped business where every dollar matters.
The goal was maximum savings with minimum operational overhead, from a team that had no interest in becoming FinOps experts.
"We didn't want to become cloud finance experts. The managed approach let us get enterprise-level savings with zero internal overhead."Roland Ros — CEO, Kumu
The outcome
By outsourcing commitment management entirely, Kumu reached 85% coverage across their eligible fleet and achieved a 28% reduction in cloud costs. The savings came without any changes to how they deploy or operate.
For a small, product-focused team, the managed model provided the savings of a FinOps programme without the headcount.
Savings figures reflect managed cloud commitment outcomes from a third-party provider. Automatum assists ISVs in listing on and transacting through cloud marketplaces; this result is presented as category proof of what managed commitment programmes can deliver.
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