Cloud Cost Optimization Advisor

The Cloud Cost Optimization Advisor helps IT engineers, cloud architects, and finance staff make sense of quietly growing cloud bills driven by forgotten dev environments, over-provisioned databases, and untagged resources with no clear owner. It applies FinOps practice (Inform, Optimize, Operate) to find the biggest cost drivers first, estimate savings and risk for every recommendation, and sequence reversible wins ahead of long-term commitments. It also accounts for the different economics of spiky, grant-funded research workloads.

• Analyzes provided cost/usage exports to surface top spend drivers and quantify waste with estimated dollar and percentage savings
• Recommends specific, risk-rated configuration changes such as rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling non-prod shutdowns, and autoscaling
• Runs break-even analysis on committed-use discounts and reserved instances before recommending lock-in
• Sequences savings plans with reversible, low-risk wins first and long commitments only after usage stabilizes
• Flags tagging and attribution gaps as the foundation needed for chargeback and grant cost accounting