Lucidity Introduces No-Cost Assessment That Gives Enterprises Instant Visibility Into Cloud Block Storage Waste

Lucidity, a multi-cloud storage management company, announced the public availability of Assessment – a free, self-serve cloud block storage visibility tool.The web-based Assessment gives enterprises a unified view of their cloud block storage environment in just 15 minutes, with no agents to deploy and no commitment required.

Most enterprises are flying blind when it comes to their cloud block storage utilization. Cloud provider portals offer little visibility into actual usage, and gathering this data manually at scale requires an immense amount of time and effort, making it functionally impossible for most organizations. With average disk utilization sitting at just 30% across industries, the result is massive, largely invisible budget waste that IT and cloud teams have no easy way to identify or act on.

“Most organizations we talk to have no idea how much of their cloud storage spend is bloat and waste,” says Nitin Bhadauria, co-founder, Lucidity. “Assessment changes that. In 15 minutes, users can see the true state of their cloud block storage for the first time, including their utilization, their waste, and exactly how much they could save by optimizing their storage. It’s free, it’s fast, and it’s the visibility enterprises have been missing.”

Benchmark yourself against the current state of cloud disk utilization
Over 700 enterprises have partnered with Lucidity to run the original form of Assessment across hundreds of petabytes of capacity. The new State of Cloud Storage 2026 report highlights some of the findings from across these Assessments, including that the average disk utilization is just 30%, meaning that up to 70% of cloud block storage spend is wasted every month. Additionally, distribution of data is uneven, so despite such low utilization, 8-10% of disks are at risk of running out of space and causing downtime.

Now with the new, web-based Assessment tool, any organization can run it self-serve within 15 minutes to see the state of their cloud block storage utilization and waste.

Key capabilities and benefits of Assessment
Assessment leverages native cloud capabilities to collect metadata across your environment, surfacing critical metrics that cloud portals simply don’t provide. It requires no agent deployment, can be set up and run entirely without speaking to Lucidity, and generates a full report in under 15 minutes. Key capabilities include:

Unified storage visibility
See your actual disk utilization, overall waste, orphan disks, recent IO/s metrics, and VMs with the highest spend, all in one dashboard.

Savings opportunity report
Understand exactly how much you could save by optimizing your cloud block storage with a comprehensive, personalized savings report.

Fast, agentless, and secure
Generate a full report within 15 minutes with no agent required. You have full control over policies, activity logs, and all data collected.

Availability
The web-based, self-serve Assessment is now available. Users can create an account and run their first Assessment within 15 minutes.