How to Regain Control of Your Cloud Infrastructure Optimization

Cloud infrastructures rarely fail for technical reasons. More often, they fail financially.

Over time, as teams change and projects evolve, costs accumulate, dependencies are forgotten, and workloads keep running “just in case.”

Sisifo helps organizations audit, redesign, and govern their cloud and data environments so that costs reflect actual business value.

Across industries, we’ve seen redundant pipelines, orphaned servers, duplicated storage, and dashboards querying terabytes of unnecessary data.

Our mission is to bring clarity, accountability, and optimization back to the infrastructure layer while maintaining visibility and data integrity.

The Problem We Keep Seeing

Across companies, the same patterns repeat. New IT or data leaders inherit architectures with little documentation or unclear ownership. Old pipelines stay active long after they’re needed, quietly consuming resources every day. Teams hesitate to delete outdated processes because they don’t know what else depends on them.

Costs are often spread across multiple accounts or regions, making them hard to track. And dashboards frequently pull entire data histories when only recent data is needed, driving up compute costs.

The result is invisible technical debt and cloud expenses that grow month after month.

The Sisifo Approach: Cloud Infrastructure Optimization With Intelligence

At Sisifo, we treat cost management as a data architecture challenge, not just a financial one.

Our process combines engineering audits, dependency mapping, and cost analytics to improve performance without creating blind spots.

1. Discovery & Mapping

We begin by identifying every active resource across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. Then we map pipelines, data flows, and BI connections to real business processes. This helps us detect redundancies and hidden dependencies through usage logs and query audits.

2. Cost Visibility & Attribution

Next, we tag all resources by owner, environment, and purpose, building interactive dashboards that show who owns each workload and what it costs. Reconciling invoices with usage data allows us to detect anomalies early.

3. Optimization & Redesign

Real savings come from making architecture smarter, not from cutting corners.

For example, one client’s Power BI dashboards were querying a 200 GB Redshift dataset with every refresh. By introducing incremental refresh in both Redshift and Power BI, only new or updated data was loaded, cutting query costs by 70% and reducing refresh times from hours to minutes — all without losing data integrity.

4. Governance & Monitoring

Finally, we implement IAM-based access control, cost alerts, and auto-scaling. Governance routines ensure continuous oversight, and we transfer knowledge so future teams inherit documented, optimized systems.

The Business Impact

Clients who complete Sisifo’s infrastructure audit and redesign typically achieve:

• 20–40% reduction in recurring cloud and BI costs within the first quarter.

• Better performance across dashboards and data pipelines.

• Transparent accountability for every running resource.

• Sustainable cost control that scales with data growth.

In complex multi-company environments, this transparency helps restore trust between Finance, IT, and Data teams. Everyone can finally see where the money goes and what value it delivers.

Closing Thought

Cloud infrastructure optimization should scale your business, not your costs.

Sisifo helps companies regain control of their data ecosystems by combining financial discipline with technical precision. Every query, pipeline, and dashboard delivers measurable value.

The real problem isn’t the cloud itself. It’s losing sight of who is calling the data, and how often.