Cloud Cost Optimizer
A reporting and remediation pipeline that continuously finds unused AWS capacity and turns it into ranked, owner-assigned actions.
- Identified and removed 31% of monthly waste in the first quarter
- Attributed 98% of spend to an owning team through tag reconciliation
- Automated cleanup for four classes of provably idle resources
Cost reporting only changes behavior when it produces a specific action with a named owner.
Problem
Spend dashboards existed, but nobody could translate a line item into a task. Ownership was inferred from inconsistent tags, so recommendations had no destination.
Approach
- Reconciled tags against the service catalog to give every resource an owner
- Ranked findings by confidence and monthly saving rather than raw size
- Automated remediation only where idleness was provable without judgment
- Delivered weekly diffs instead of a static dashboard
Result
Waste removal became routine maintenance instead of a quarterly project, and architecture-level cost discussions started from a clean baseline.