The FinOps AI Handbook¶
Practical, opinionated guides on why your AWS bill is what it is and what to do about it. Every guide pairs with a free calculator at tools.getfinops.cloud so you can put numbers next to the words.
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Guides¶
- Why is my AWS bill so high? — The five line items that drive a typical startup's AWS invoice, ranked by frequency of "wait, what?".
- Why is EKS so expensive? — Control plane fees, node fleet sizing, and the "one cluster per environment" trap.
- Reduce AWS NAT Gateway cost — The single biggest fix for VPC traffic spend: VPC endpoints.
- gp2 vs gp3 cost savings — 20% less per GB-month, an online migration, and the volume sizes where matching gp2 costs more.
- AWS cost-optimization checklist for startups — Twelve quick wins ranked by dollar size.
- Connect Claude or Cursor to your cloud costs (MCP) — Ask your AI assistant about spend and findings, and request fixes through approvals.
- FAQ — Common cost questions answered.
- Library — Every calculator, blog post and product page that goes with these guides, grouped by topic.
Calculators¶
Free calculators at tools.getfinops.cloud cover EC2, Lambda, EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudWatch Logs, NAT Gateway and EBS, plus Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances and LLM API cost. See them all in the Library →
From the blog¶
- AWS Cost Explorer vs. Pricing Calculator
- AWS EDP Meaning: How the Enterprise Discount Program Works
- EC2 Stop vs. Terminate Cost: What Persists?
- GCP Egress Cost: Trace the Paths Behind Your Bill
- How to Review GCP Rightsizing Recommendations Before Applying Them
- FinOps Roles and Responsibilities: Who Owns Each Cloud Cost Decision
- FinOps Chargeback vs. Showback: How to Choose
- FOCUS Explained: Normalize Multi-Cloud Billing Without Losing Detail
All posts, grouped by topic, in the Library →
How this site fits together¶
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T[tools.getfinops.cloud<br/>Free calculators]
H[handbook.getfinops.cloud<br/>This site]
H -->|"estimate your savings"| T
T -->|"read the guide"| H
H -.->|"book a demo"| A
T -.->|"book an audit"| A
📐 Open in Lucidchart → (rich-icon view of the three web properties and how they cross-link)
This handbook explains the why of each line on your AWS bill. The tools subdomain turns those explanations into a number for your footprint. The main site is where you book a demo of the FinOps AI safe-remediation operator when you want the fixes run for you, through your approvals.
Want a real number, not an estimate?¶
Book a free 30-minute audit and we'll verify your savings against your actual AWS bill — read-only access, tamper-evident audit trail, no obligation.