Mission Cloud Partners with Vantage on AI FinOps

- Mission Cloud, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, is a CDW company that specializes in AWS migrations, modernization, and managed cloud services. - Vantage was founded in 2020 by Ben Schaechter and Brooke McKim, former product leaders at DigitalOcean and Amazon Web Services, and is headquartered in New York City. - The Vantage platform provides customers with granular cost attribution, unit cost analysis, and AI-driven automation to optimize cloud spending. It integrates with over 25 providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenAI. - This partnership will leverage Vantage's platform to enhance Mission Cloud's FinOps services for its customers operating complex AWS environments. - The collaboration aims to provide customers with better visibility and management of their spending across AWS infrastructure, AI services, and SaaS tools. - AI is increasingly being used in FinOps to analyze large datasets, detect inefficiencies, and forecast cloud spending, which can account for up to 30% of an enterprise's AWS bill in wasted resources. - Mission Cloud's CEO, Simon Anderson, founded the company in 2017 and has since grown it to become a top 20 global services partner to AWS. He was named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 for the Greater Los Angeles area. - The CEO of Vantage, Ben Schaechter, highlighted that the partnership will deliver "granular cost attribution, unit cost analysis, and AI-driven insights" to help AWS customers make more informed decisions faster.