From Cloud Waste Elimination to Efficiency: ProsperOps and Kion Partner to Streamline Cloud Cost Management
Effective cloud financial management goes beyond tracking costs—it’s about turning insights into action and ensuring organizations can operate efficiently in the cloud. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new collaboration between ProsperOps and Kion.
This partnership strengthens Kion’s FinOps capabilities, particularly within the Optimize phase of the FinOps Framework, and extends these benefits to government and highly regulated organizations that operate in AWS GovCloud.
ProsperOps automates cloud rate optimization, enabling organizations to maximize savings generated from discounts across AWS, Google, and Azure, such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, and Reservations. By eliminating the manual effort required to manage commitments, organizations can free their FinOps teams to focus on higher-priority initiatives.
Optimizing a portfolio of cloud commitments is inherently complex. Approaching conservatively to safeguard against unexpected usage fluctuations leads to missed savings. Alternatively, an aggressive approach maximizes discounts but increases risk, and may result in wasted spend on unused capacity.
Kion brings FinOps governance expertise and capabilities to the partnership –making it easy to allocate funds, get cost visibility, and control spend. With Kion, organizations can simplify spend and budgets for faster decision making, apply policies to prevent waste and automate FinOps governance to drive efficiency.
Together, ProsperOps and Kion empower FinOps teams to shift from reactive cost control to strategic financial operations. Together, our platforms deliver a complete solution that drives efficiency, cost reduction, and continuous improvement inline with the FinOps Framework.
Deepening FinOps Capabilities: Inform, Optimize, Operate
Kion was built to provide organizations with complete control over their cloud environments by unifying governance, automation, and FinOps in a single policy-based platform. ProsperOps automation continuously monitors and optimizes your commitments to reduce risk, reduce costs, and maximize flexibility. Our joint approach aligns with the three core FinOps phases and provides a well-rounded solution with depth of capability across the three phases:
Inform – Gain visibility into cloud usage and costs with real-time reporting and analytics
Optimize – Drive efficient cloud usage by rightsizing and decommissioning underutilized or unused resources
Operate – Automate and enforce financial policies to prevent overspending and recurrence of cloud waste
Maximizing Savings Through Rate and Usage Optimization
With this partnership, Kion and ProsperOps deliver a more powerful approach to cloud cost optimization, helping organizations reduce spend and operate at peak efficiency.
ProsperOps specializes in rate optimization, ensuring customers get the best pricing for their cloud usage by automating discount instruments like AWS Savings Plans (SPs) and Reserved Instances (RIs). Kion complements this by optimizing infrastructure itself (i.e., “usage optimization”)—ensuring resources are rightsized and unused resources are decommissioned.
Both solutions take a continuous, automated approach – ProsperOps monitors your cloud accounts in real-time to adjust commitment coverage, and Kion enforces policies that clean up cloud waste and prevent over-spending. Together, they provide a comprehensive approach to reducing costs, maximizing discounts, and improving cloud efficiency.
Bringing FinOps Optimization to AWS GovCloud
Government agencies and highly regulated industries are under increasing pressure to improve cloud efficiency and reduce waste. With a stronger focus on cost-effectiveness and operational accountability, agencies need FinOps solutions that work seamlessly within GovCloud environments.
Through this partnership, ProsperOps rate optimization will support customers with commercial and GovCloud infrastructure, integrated with Kion’s cloud governance and cost visibility tools. This means public sector organizations can confidently reduce cloud costs while ensuring compliance with federal security and operational requirements.
A More Efficient Future for Cloud Users
With Kion and ProsperOps working together, organizations can finally streamline and automate their entire cloud cost optimization process—from identifying cost-saving opportunities to enforcing and automating those savings continuously.
For government agencies, this partnership comes at a critical time as efficiency and cost control become top priorities in cloud adoption strategies. By leveraging both rate and usage optimization, agencies can ensure their cloud investments are fully optimized for both performance and cost.
Interested in learning more? Contact us to see how Kion and ProsperOps can help you achieve maximum efficiency in your cloud environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is being announced?
ProsperOps and Kion have partnered to provide joint customers with a unique solution driving both Rate and Usage Optimization, as well as an automated, policy-centric approach to preventing cloud waste recurrence.
2. What are the benefits of this partnership?
- Maximum Savings - Rate and Usage Optimization Together: Kion and ProsperOps bring joint customers solutions for both Rate Optimization and Usage Optimization, maximizing cloud savings through an integrated FinOps and CloudOps approach –with immediate savings realized as early as 1 month.
- Prevent Waste Recurrence: Just like ProsperOps puts your rate optimization on auto-pilot, Kion automates account guardrails and policies that prevent common cloud waste scenarios, enforces budgets, automatically tags resources, and ensures least-privileged access.
- Purpose built for GovCloud: Regulated organizations and government customers can safely rely on Kion and ProsperOps to deliver a holistic FinOps program designed for GovCloud environments.
- Maximize ProsperOps Coverage across Multiple Clouds: Kion maximizes your multi cloud ProsperOps savings coverage by automatically applying the necessary ProsperOps IAM configurations to all new and existing member cloud accounts.
3. Any limitations that should be known?
Today, Kion and ProsperOps will operate independently within the customer's cloud environment. Customers will get the most value by using both tools in tandem—ProsperOps for savings execution and Kion for automated governance, budget enforcement, and long-term efficiency.
4. How much does it cost?
Kion customers can get a free Savings Assessment to estimate how much cloud waste can be reduced and hours to be saved through automation of manual tasks.
ProsperOps can provide a 4 year savings methodology for all customers to create budget and savings – “Optimize to Innovate”.
5. How do I get started?
To get started, you can request a demo with Kion or ProsperOps.
