Top 5 cost-driving services this week
Which 5 services drove the most cloud cost this week, and what changed from last week?
What Billy returns
The five highest-cost services for the week, each with its change from the previous week.
- Finance
- FinOps
- Exec
- Multi-cloud
How CostGuard works and its data source
How does CostGuard work, and what's the data source behind its reports?
What Billy returns
How CostGuard evaluates your resources, and what data feeds its reports.
Account-level spend ranking
"
Rank my AWS accounts by spend for last month, and tell me which three grew the fastest."
What Billy returns
Your AWS accounts ranked by last month's spend, each with month-over-month growth, and the three growing fastest.
Virtual tag permissions for basic users
Can basic users create and use virtual tags?
What Billy returns
Which permission level is required to create and use virtual tags.
Quarter-close reconciliation
"
Reconcile our Q1 cloud spend by business unit, including credits, refunds, and marketplace charges. Surface anything that looks misallocated.."
What Billy returns
Quarterly spend by business unit, with credits, refunds, and marketplace charges itemized.
- Finance
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Connect an S3 bucket for telemetry
How do I connect an S3 bucket for telemetry?
What Billy returns
How to connect an S3 bucket for telemetry.
Rightsize underutilized compute
"Identify EC2 and GCE instances sustained below 20% CPU and 30% memory over the past 14 days, and recommend rightsizing."
What Billy returns
EC2 and GCE instances running below 20% CPU over the last 14 days, ranked by potential saving, with a suggested smaller size.
- DevOps
- Engineering
- Multi-cloud
MegaBill data lag explained
Why is my MegaBill data 24–48 hours behind?
What Billy returns
Why MegaBill data runs 24 to 48 hours behind, so you know it's expected rather than a problem with your account.
Expiring reservations in the next 60 days
"Which AWS reservations are expiring in the next 60 days, and what would those workloads cost on-demand?"
What Billy returns
Reservations and Savings Plans expiring in the next 60 days, and what their workloads would cost at on-demand rates.
Schedule a recurring export
How do I schedule a recurring export?
What Billy returns
How to schedule a recurring export.
Creating a custom KPI for a dashboard
How do I create a custom KPI in Finout and present it on a dashboard?
What Billy returns
How to build a custom KPI and add it to a dashboard.
Multi-cloud spend,
last month
What did we spend last month across AWS, GCP, and Azure? Break it down by provider and show the month-over-month change.
What Billy returns
Last month's spend by provider, the prior month's spend, and the change in dollars and percent.
- FinOps
- Finance
- Exec
- Multi-cloud
Tag coverage and untagged spend
"What percentage of my cloud spend is properly tagged, and what's the dollar value of untagged resources by service and account?"
What Billy returns
Your tag coverage percentage and untagged spend broken down by service and account.
- FinOps
- Engineering
- Finance
- Multi-cloud
Build a virtual tag for application owner
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What would a virtual tag rule look like that groups workloads by application owner, using the app_id tag as primary key and falling back to account ownership where app_id is missing?"
What Billy returns
A draft virtual tag rule with the fallback logic written out, for you to review and set up in Finout yourself..
Cost vs. CPU for your top 5 EC2 instances
For our five most expensive EC2 instances this month, show cost next to average CPU. Which are expensive and underused?
What Billy returns
Your five highest-cost EC2 instances for the month, with average CPU utilization next to each one's cost, and a read on which are both expensive and underused.
- FinOps
- Engineering
- DevOps
- AWS
Cost per transaction, trended
"Show me cost per transaction for our core API, trended monthly for the past 12 months."
What Billy returns
Monthly cost per transaction for the API over the last 12 months.
- Engineering
- Product
- Multi-cloud
Workload-level cost attribution to owner
"Attribute Kubernetes cost down to the deployment / workload level for the past month, and roll it up to the application owner."
What Billy returns
Kubernetes cost at the deployment or workload level, rolled up to the application owner using your labels or virtual tags.
- Engineering
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Snowflake warehouse usage pattern, 60 days
Show me the usage pattern for this Snowflake warehouse over the last 60 days — is it bursty or steady?
What Billy returns
60 days of usage volume for the warehouse, showing whether consumption is bursty or steady.
- Engineering
- FinOps
- Finance
- Snowflake
Granting a new user access to Finout
How do we give access to someone?
What Billy returns
How to invite a new user and grant them access to Finout.
Namespace cost with utilization
"For the payment-processing namespace, show me cost alongside CPU and memory utilization for the past 14 days."
What Billy returns
Daily cost for the namespace alongside its CPU and memory utilization for the last 14 days.
- Engineering
- DevOps
- Multi-cloud
Non-prod auto-shutdown savings
"Estimate how much we'd save if we auto-shutdown all non-prod workloads outside business hours (7 PM to 7 AM weekdays, all weekend)."
What Billy returns
An annualized savings estimate for the shutdown window you describe, and the non-prod workloads contributing most of it.
- DevOps
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Unsubscribing from a scheduled dashboard
How do I unsubscribe from a dashboard?
What Billy returns
How to unsubscribe from a scheduled dashboard or report.
Token cost trends with input/output split
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Show me the trend in cost per input token and cost per output token across our top three LLM providers for the past 90 days."
What Billy returns
Cost per million tokens, input and output separately, trended over the last 90 days for each provider.
- Engineering
- Product
- Multi-cloud
Multi-vendor AI spend rollup
"Roll up our spend on AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, direct Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot for the past month."
What Billy returns
Each of those vendors' spend for the month, with each one's share of your total AI cost.
- FinOps
- Engineering
- Exec
- Multi-cloud
Opening a support ticket
How can I open a support ticket?
What Billy returns
How to open a support ticket with Finout.
Enabling Billy's AI instructions
How do I enable AI instructions for myself?
What Billy returns
How to turn on and customize Billy's AI instructions.
Commitment coverage rate and gap analysis
"What's my current commitment coverage rate by service, and where am I leaving savings on the table?"
What Billy returns
Coverage rate per service, and the on-demand spend sitting outside a commitment.
- FinOps
- Finance
- Multi-cloud
Underutilized GPU instances this month
Which of our GPU instances are underutilized this month?
What Billy returns
A ranked list of this month's GPU instances with GPU utilization, GPU memory utilization, and power draw shown next to cost, so you can see which instances are genuinely idle rather than just quiet. Instances already flagged by the GPU Idle scan are called out separately.
Anomaly impact attributed to team
or owner
"For the anomalies detected in the past 30 days, which teams or owners are responsible for the most impact?"
What Billy returns
Anomaly impact from the last 30 days aggregated by team, owner, or virtual tag, ranked by dollars.
Where to find Finout's MCP setup
Where do I find Finout's MCP setup?
What Billy returns
How to set up Finout's MCP server.
What-if: 80% reservation coverage
"Model what our compute cost would look like if we moved from current commitment coverage to 80% coverage, mixing 1-year and 3-year terms."
What Billy returns
Projected compute cost at 80% coverage compared with on-demand, modeled across 1-year and 3-year terms.
- Finance
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Multi-year cloud spend forecast
"Forecast our 2027 and 2028 cloud spend across AWS, GCP, and Azure, excluding marketplace and one-time charges. Assume 1% monthly organic growth."
What Billy returns
A monthly forecast through the end of 2028 by provider, on the growth assumption you give.
Azure forecast with savings plan scenario
"Forecast my Azure spend over the next 12 months assuming we shift 80% of consumption to a 3-year Compute Savings Plan starting month 3."
What Billy returns
A 12-month Azure forecast with the savings plan applied from the month you specify, compared with staying on-demand.
Showback by business unit
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Generate a showback report by business unit for the past month, including both direct cost and allocated shared services.."
What Billy returns
Cost per business unit with direct and allocated shared-services portions separated.
- FinOps
- Finance
- Multi-cloud
Investigate yesterday's production anomaly
"Investigate yesterday's anomaly on the production environment — what resource or usage type caused the spike?"
What Billy returns
The specific anomaly record, contributing resources ranked by cost impact, and (when correlated data is available) the deployment or configuration change that aligns with the spike.
- Engineering
- DevOps
- Multi-cloud
Month-to-date spend by environment
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Show me month-to-date spend grouped by environment (prod, staging, dev) across all my accounts."
What Billy returns
Month-to-date spend per environment across your accounts, sorted highest to lowest.
- Engineering
- DevOps
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Generate an API key and enable team tokens
Where do I get an API key, and how do I let my team create their own personal access tokens?
What Billy returns
How to generate an API key, and how to enable personal access tokens for teammates.
Spend mix: compute, storage, networking, AI
"What's my cloud spend mix between compute, storage, networking, data transfer, and AI services for the past 90 days?"
What Billy returns
Spend across those five categories for the last 90 days, with dollar totals and percentages.
- FinOps
- Engineering
- Multi-cloud
Spend by region with anomaly flags
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Break down my cloud spend by region for the past 30 days, and flag any region where spend deviates from the 90-day baseline by more than 20%.."
What Billy returns
Spend by region for the last 30 days, with the regions more than 20% off their 90-day baseline identified.
- Engineering
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Set up SSO groups
How do I set up SSO groups?
What Billy returns
How to configure SSO groups in Finout.
Quarterly summary for a leadership update
Write me a short summary of last quarter's cloud spend I can send to my leadership team — the total, the change from the prior quarter, and the three biggest drivers.
What Billy returns
A written summary with the quarter's total, the change from the prior quarter, and the three largest drivers.
Recap an investigation for the owning team
Summarize what we found in this conversation so I can share it with the team that owns this cost.
What Billy returns
A written recap of the findings from the conversation so far. To hand over the full investigation, share the conversation link from the top of the chat.
Daily cost trend with driver analysis
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Daily cloud cost for the last 14 days, and which services, accounts, or usage types are behind the trend."
What Billy returns
Daily cost line chart plus a narrative driver analysis - which services, accounts, or usage types account for the trend direction.
- FinOps
- Engineering
- Multi-cloud
Check if a resource ran continuously or on a schedule
Was this resource running continuously last month, or only during certain hours?
What Billy returns
Whether the resource ran continuously last month or only during certain hours.
- DevOps
- Engineering
- AWS
- GCP
Top savings opportunities ranked by value
"Give me my top 20 cost-saving opportunities right now, ranked by monthly savings potential."
What Billy returns
Your cost-saving opportunities ranked by monthly savings potential.
Sharing a dashboard via link
How do I share a dashboard with another user using just a link?
What Billy returns
How to generate a shareable dashboard link.
Exclude promotional credits from cost data
How do I exclude promotional credits from my cost data?
What Billy returns
Instructions for excluding promotional credits from your cost views, sourced from documentation, plus a note on where the setting applies, account-wide or per report.
Cursor and Copilot spend per engineer
"What's the average Cursor and GitHub Copilot cost per engineer over the past 14 days, and who are the heaviest users?"
What Billy returns
Average per-engineer cost across Cursor and Copilot for the last 14 days, and your heaviest users ranked by spend.
- Engineering
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
API access for CostGuard and anomaly alerts
Do we have a Finout API for CostGuard, and is there API access into anomaly alerts?
What Billy returns
Which modules expose API endpoints, including CostGuard and anomaly alerts.
Verify a CostGuard idle flag before terminating
CostGuard flagged this instance as idle. Show me its CPU and network for the last 30 days before I terminate it.
What Billy returns
30 days of CPU and network utilization for the instance, so you can check the idle finding against real usage.
- Engineering
- DevOps
- FinOps
- AWS
Explain my virtual tag structure
"Explain how my virtual tags are structured and show me how cost flows through them."
What Billy returns
A visual breakdown of your virtual tag hierarchy, the rule behind each tag, and how a representative resource is attributed through it.
- FinOps
- Engineering
- Multi-cloud
Confirm headroom for a rightsizing recommendation
We have a rightsizing recommendation to downsize this instance. Show me peak and average CPU — is there headroom for the smaller size?
What Billy returns
Peak and average CPU for the instance, and whether the smaller size has room to absorb the peaks.
Resource-level
tag lookup
"What tags does resource i-0abc123def456 currently have, and which virtual tags does it fall under?"
What Billy returns
The native cloud tags on the resource, and the virtual tags it falls under.
- Engineering
- DevOps
- Multi-cloud
Fully-loaded cost
per feature
"Give me a fully-loaded cost per product feature - compute, storage, networking, AI, and shared services allocated proportionally."
What Billy returns
Cost per feature with the category breakdown and each feature's share of allocated shared services.
- Engineering
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Cost per customer,
by feature
"Calculate cost per customer for each of our top 5 product features over the past month."
What Billy returns
Cost per customer for each of those features over the past month.
- Product
- Finance
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Multi-cluster cost-per-pod comparison
"Compare cost per running pod across my production clusters. Are there clusters significantly more expensive on a per-pod basis?"
What Billy returns
Cost per running pod for each of your production clusters.
- Engineering
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Kubernetes cost by namespace across all clusters
"Show me Kubernetes cost grouped by namespace across all my EKS, GKE, and AKS clusters for the past
30 days."
What Billy returns
Namespace-level cost ranked by spend across your clusters, with cluster attribution where a namespace appears in more than one.
- Engineering
- DevOps
- Multi-cloud
Group membership and data filters
How do I get information on membership and data filters for groups?
What Billy returns
How group membership and the data filters attached to groups work.
Connecting a CUR 2.0 file
Can we connect a CUR 2.0 to Finout?
What Billy returns
Whether CUR 2.0 is supported, and how to connect it.
Bedrock spend by model
"Break my Bedrock spend down by model — Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Titan, others — for the past 90 days."
What Billy returns
Bedrock spend per model for the last 90 days, with input and output token cost separated.
End-of-month projection from current burn rate
"Based on month-to-date spend and the past 90 days of patterns, project where my cloud spend will land at end-of-month."
What Billy returns
A projected end-of-month total from month-to-date spend and recent patterns.
- FinOps
- Finance
- Multi-cloud
Setting up a budget within a financial plan
How do I add a budget, and how do I set one up within a financial plan?
What Billy returns
How to create a budget, and how to configure it inside a financial plan.
Budget variance with forward projection
"Show me budget variance by team for the current quarter, and project end-of-quarter overrun risk based on current burn rates."
What Billy returns
Actual against budget per team for the quarter to date, a projected end-of-quarter position from the current run rate, and which teams are tracking toward an overrun.
- Finance
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
AI workload forecast at 40% growth
"If our AI inference workload grows 40% next year, what will it cost on Bedrock, Vertex, and direct Anthropic / OpenAI usage? Where will the new cost concentrate?"
What Billy returns
Forecast AI cost by vendor at the growth rate you specify, and where the additional spend lands.
- Engineering
- Finance
- Multi-cloud
Top 5 quick wins to act on this week
"What are the top 5 quick-win cost reductions I could act on this week? I want low effort, high impact."
What Billy returns
Five cost reductions ranked by impact, each with its monthly savings amount.
- FinOps
- DevOps
- Multi-cloud
Top anomalies this week with root cause
"Show me the top cost anomalies from the past 7 days and what's driving each one."
What Billy returns
The anomaly record, and the resources or usage types that contributed to it ranked by cost impact.
- Engineering
- FinOps
- Multi-cloud
Sustained run-rate changes, period over period
"Compare last week's daily run rate to the week before. Are there accounts or services with sustained reductions or increases?"
What Billy returns
Last week's daily run rate next to the previous week's, and the accounts and services where the change persisted.
- FinOps
- Finance
- Multi-cloud
Board-ready executive summary
"Build me a board-ready cloud cost summary for last quarter: total spend, year-over-year change, top drivers, savings actions taken, AI spend trajectory, and risks for
next quarter."
What Billy returns
A written summary covering total spend, year-over-year change, top drivers, savings actions, AI spend trajectory, and next-quarter risks.
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