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IBM Cloudability Feature
Cloud Resource Governance: Preemptive Optimization
Achieve FinOps goals by integrating cost insights into developer workflows
Cloud cost management and optimization has traditionally been a reactive process, with relevant actions usually taken many days after deployment. This situation can allow waste and bad patterns to spread, accumulate, and then force teams into optimization fire drills.
IBM Cloudability Governance is an innovative capability that puts proactive insights into engineering workflows, preventing undesirable cost events occurring in the first place.
IBM has been recognized as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools.
“IBM provides the most complete full-stack CCMO solution,” according to the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024.
Know the cost impact – before deployment
Cloudability Governance is currently available as a GitHub integration, delivering extensive developer reach via the most popular distributed version control platform. With this integration enabled and configured to your needs, engineers are alerted to the expected cost impact of new and changing cloud workloads, providing a validation check before they move forward.
For engineers this represents a seamless experience, with insights based on their infrastructure as code (IaC) templates (Terraform Configuration File, for instance) and surfaced within their regular development workflow.
Align engineers to cost and governance policies
Cloudability Governance helps engineers comply with their organization’s cloud policies. This includes important concerns such as:
- Resource tagging – confirming required keys and approved values are present
- Approved infrastructure options – allowable cloud services, regions and VM families
- Budget limits
There are two options when applying these policies – an inform mode to let engineers know their IaC template is out of compliance, or an enforcement mode which prevents the change from proceeding.
Flexible admin controls backed by the full intelligence of Cloudability
Backed by the full intelligence of the Cloudability platform, Cloudability Governance provides dependable cost insights and a robust policy engine. Cost projections are trained on billions of dollars of historical cloud spend data and are tailored to specific organizational needs, including custom pricing and commitment coverage. This enables Cloudability Governance to forecast reliably, helping your engineers manage cloud expenditures with confidence.
Cloudability’s flexible policy engine supports FinOps administrators in configuring and enforcing governance rules that align with organizational requirements. Admins have precise control when defining what constitutes compliant versus non-compliant cloud usage.
See IBM Cloudability Features in Action
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Cloudability features
With IBM Cloudability, FinOps teams from finance to engineering to product and organizational leadership can all work together to maximize the value of their cloud spend. Cloudability’s robust features address fundamental FinOps domains and capabilities.
Complete ownership and visibility
Gain complete ownership and visibility across all cloud and AI spend through a single pane of glass, 100% cost allocation, and personalized views that give every team a clear understanding of what they own.
Confidence to scale and invest
Scale cloud and AI investments with confidence, guided by unit economics, accurate forecasting, and proactive budget and anomaly alerts that surface risk early and enable innovation without losing financial control.
Unmatched cost efficiency
Make every cloud dollar work harder with automation, insights, and proactive governance that continuously reduce waste, improve commitment effectiveness, and sustain cost efficiency as environments evolve.
