The Full Cloud Infrastructure Platform — Not a Feature, Not a Point Tool
CloudNest replaces the patchwork of monitoring tools, cost dashboards, IaC editors, and compliance spreadsheets your team is currently duct-taping together. One platform, every cloud, one team.
Every capability below ships in the same platform — no add-ons, no separate agents, no surprise line items on your invoice.
Platform Capabilities in Depth
Unified Multi-Cloud Monitoring
CloudNest ingests metrics, logs, and events from AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Google Cloud Operations into a single normalized data model. Build dashboards that cut across cloud boundaries — show your EKS cluster latency next to your AKS cluster error rate on the same graph. Configurable alerting routes to Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, or email with full context included.
Visual DevOps Workflow Automation
Build automation workflows with a drag-and-drop canvas — no scripting required, but full scripting supported for advanced teams. Choose from 80+ templates covering auto-scaling triggers, scheduled resource teardowns, automated tagging enforcement, and deployment pipeline hooks. Every workflow run is logged with a full execution trace for debugging and audit purposes.
Cloud Cost Intelligence Engine
Connect all your cloud billing accounts and CloudNest immediately begins analyzing spend against utilization data to surface waste. The rightsizing engine compares actual CPU, memory, and network usage against provisioned capacity and generates one-click remediation recommendations. Anomaly detection flags unusual spend spikes within minutes — not at the end of the billing cycle.
Infrastructure as Code Hub
CloudNest's IaC Hub provides a browser-based editor with syntax validation, module registry integration, and live plan previews before you apply changes. Drift detection runs on a configurable schedule and opens a ticket automatically when live infrastructure diverges from your declared state. Full version history with diff views means you always know what changed and who changed it.
Continuous Security & Compliance Posture
CloudNest scans every resource configuration across connected accounts against CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2 controls, ISO 27001 requirements, and GDPR data residency rules on a rolling basis. Your compliance score updates in real time as resources are created, modified, or destroyed. One-click audit report generation produces a formatted PDF ready for your auditors or board.
Centralized IAM & Access Governance
Define roles, policies, and permission boundaries across all connected cloud accounts from a single CloudNest governance console. Just-in-time access requests let engineers request elevated permissions for a time-limited window — approved by a manager in Slack — without permanently broadening their standing access. Every permission change is immutably logged for compliance and forensic investigations.
Most customers are fully operational — monitoring connected, automations active, cost alerts configured — within 72 hours of starting their trial.
How Teams Get Running on CloudNest in 5 Steps
01
Connect Your Cloud Accounts
Use CloudNest's guided account connection wizard to link your AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts using read-only IAM roles. No agents to install, no code to deploy — permissions are scoped to the minimum required. Your first metrics appear in the dashboard within minutes of connecting.
02
Explore Your Cost & Health Dashboard
CloudNest immediately begins surfacing your top cost drivers, idle resources, and configuration anomalies in a prioritized view. The health score gives your team an instant baseline. Most customers find their first cost savings opportunity in the first 30 minutes of using the platform.
03
Deploy Your First Automation
Browse the automation template library and deploy a pre-built workflow — a popular first choice is the nightly dev environment teardown, which typically saves $1,500–4,000 per month immediately. Customize triggers, conditions, and actions in the visual canvas. Test in sandbox mode before enabling in production.
04
Configure Alerts & Integrations
Connect CloudNest to your existing toolchain: Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, GitHub, and 40+ other integrations via native connectors. Set cost budget thresholds that fire before overspend occurs, and configure on-call routing rules that respect your existing escalation policies. Your team keeps working in the tools they already use.
05
Invite Your Team & Set Governance
Add your engineers, platform team, and finance stakeholders with role-appropriate access. Assign least-privilege permissions, require MFA, and configure approval flows for sensitive actions. CloudNest's onboarding team schedules a 30-minute governance review call to help you set up access policies that match your org structure.
30% Average Cost Reduction Is Not a Marketing Number
It's the median outcome across 500+ CloudNest customers after 90 days on the platform, calculated from anonymized billing data with customer consent. The range runs from 18% to 61% depending on how optimized the starting environment was. We publish a quarterly Cost Benchmark Report so you can see where your organization stands against peers in your industry and infrastructure maturity stage.
Technical Questions Our Trial Users Ask Most
CloudNest connects via read-only IAM roles for monitoring, cost analysis, and compliance scanning. For automation workflows and remediation actions, write permissions are scoped narrowly to only the resource types the workflow touches — you define and approve these during setup. We publish our full permission requirements by cloud provider in our documentation.
Most customers see their first cost recommendations within 24–48 hours of connecting their accounts — as soon as CloudNest has enough utilization data to compare against provisioned capacity. Actionable savings (rightsizing, idle resource cleanup) typically appear within the first week. Realized savings after actioning recommendations are visible in the next billing cycle.
CloudNest stores aggregated metrics, configuration snapshots, and cost data in our EU-based data infrastructure (hosted on AWS eu-west-1 and eu-central-1) to power historical analysis and trend detection. We do not store raw workload data or application content. All data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). Our data retention and processing practices are detailed in our DPA.
Yes — CloudNest has native integrations with Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE, and supports self-managed Kubernetes clusters via our lightweight Helm chart agent. The agent reports cluster-level metrics, namespace cost attribution, and pod rightsizing recommendations back to the CloudNest dashboard without requiring any changes to your workloads.
At the end of your trial, your account moves to a read-only state — you can still view all your dashboards and historical data, but automations pause and alerts stop. We'll send you a reminder at day 10 and day 13. There's no auto-charge at the end of the trial; you choose a plan and enter payment details deliberately. If you need more time to evaluate, our sales team can extend trials for enterprise evaluations.
CloudNest is SOC 2 Type II certified, and our report covers the Security, Availability, and Confidentiality trust service criteria. The certification applies to CloudNest as a service provider — it means our systems and processes that handle your data have been independently audited and verified. You can request our SOC 2 report under NDA via our security portal for your own vendor risk reviews.
See CloudNest Running on Your Actual Infrastructure
Book a 30-minute live demo with one of our platform engineers. We'll connect a sandbox account and show you exactly what CloudNest would surface in your environment — cost waste, compliance gaps, and automation opportunities — in real time.