Idle Dev and QA Cloud VMs Waste Most of Their Billed Hours, Tool Reports

A developer post argues that dev and QA virtual machines are typically used about 60 hours a week but billed for all 168 hours. The author promotes Control Cloud, which reads cloud inventory via read-only provider API access to estimate overnight waste. On a demo organization, 16 running VMs at 12 hours nightly and $1.51 per hour amounted to roughly $6,627 a year in potentially recoverable spend. The platform also flags orphaned resources still billing, disks of stopped VMs, and savings from off-hours shutdown schedules. The post invites readers to describe how they currently manage overnight dev and QA resources.