Cost and Uptime Will Be Cloud Executives’ Top Priorities in 2025

As Cloud adoption matures post-pandemic, organizations are entering 2025 with a renewed focus on Cost Optimization and uptime assurance. The era of unchecked Cloud spending is over. With economic uncertainty, environmental accountability, and rising infrastructure complexity, Cloud leaders are under immense pressure to do more with less, without sacrificing performance or resilience.

Strategic Cost Management for Mission-Critical Operations in Cloud Environments

Over the past few years, companies have accelerated cloud migrations to support hybrid work, scale faster, and gain a competitive edge. But in 2025, cost visibility and control are now at the top of my mind. According to Wanclouds’ recent data, only 43% of U.S. IT leaders currently have full visibility into their Cloud costs and consumption—a major blind spot that’s fueling overspending and inefficiencies.

One of the biggest culprits? Fragmented usage across production, pre-production, and test environments, often managed by different teams with little coordination. As a result, idle resources, oversized infrastructure, and zombie workloads silently rack up costs behind the scenes.

And it’s not just a financial issue—unused Cloud resources also contribute to carbon emissions, draining power without purpose.

The New Answer: Cloud Optimization as a Service (COaaS) by Wanclouds

To help enterprises take back control, Wanclouds has introduced a fully Managed Cloud Cost Optimization as a Service powered by its proprietary VPC+ automation platform.

The result? Up to 50% reduction in cloud spend while improving operational efficiency and sustainability.

Key Features of VPC+ Cloud Optimization:

• Multi-Cloud Discovery & Cost Visibility: Get a unified view of resource usage across accounts, with detailed spend analysis on VMs, storage, and network services.
• Purpose Tagging & Environment Mapping: Clearly label resources by use case—test, demo, pre-prod, production—for better governance and cleanup.
• Idle Resource Detection with One-Click Removal: Instantly identify unused resources and eliminate them with a single click.
• Rightsizing Recommendations: Automatically adjust CPU, RAM, and volume sizes based on actual usage patterns.
• Smart Scheduling for Dev/Test Environments: Turn off demo or test environments outside working hours to cut costs and emissions.
• Kubernetes Backup & On-Demand Restoration: Back up and restore EKS, IKS, GKE, and other clusters—including full VPC configs—for temporary environments.
• Continuous Optimization via VPC+ Automation: Monitor, report, and act on optimization opportunities automatically.

Uptime and Disaster Recovery: Still Non-Negotiable in 2025

While cost is the headline issue, resiliency remains a board-level concern. Downtime is not just an inconvenience—it’s a business risk. According to recent industry data, 1 in 5 companies suffered a serious IT outage in 2024, often due to complex hybrid cloud environments and increased environmental disruptions.

Power outages, cyberattacks, misconfigurations, and even simple human error can take systems offline without warning. Yet, many organizations still lack a modern Disaster Recovery Strategy tailored to cloud-native environments.

Wanclouds Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Wanclouds offers a reimagined disaster recovery experience through DRaaS, a cloud-native, on-demand service for critical infrastructure protection.

• Supports Kubernetes & Multi-Cloud: AWS EKS, IBM IKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, and on-prem clusters
• Instant Recovery: Restore clusters and VPC configurations on demand across regions
• Fully Managed: No hardware. No manual scripting. Just click and recover.

This solution is particularly impactful for organizations running containerized workloads, where traditional backup methods fall short.

Get Started with VPC+ Cloud Optimization as a Service (COaaS)

VPC+ COaaS is now available directly on the AWS Marketplace and IBM Cloud Catalog or can be purchased via the VPC+ platform itself. Whether you're a growing business or a large-scale enterprise, getting started with cost optimization has never been easier.

Getting Started is Simple:

Wanclouds offers flexible, scalable options designed to meet the needs of any organization:

• Resource-Based Pricing: Pay only for what you optimize — pricing is calculated per resource per month.
• Subscription Plans for SMBs: It is ideal for startups and mid-sized businesses looking to control costs without heavy lifting.
• Enterprise Optimization Packages: Designed for large organizations managing complex, Multi-Cloud environments.
• Private Instances for Special Requirements: Custom deployments are available for enterprises with heightened security, compliance, or performance needs.

Start saving smarter, faster, and greener — all from a single pane of glass with VPC+.

Visit wanclouds.net to learn more or explore VPC+ directly via AWS Marketplace or IBM Cloud Catalog. Email [email protected] to get started with your Cloud Cost Optimization journey.