Library

Everything that goes with this handbook, grouped by topic: the free calculators, the blog, and the product pages. The guides explain why a line on the bill is what it is; these are where to go next.

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Calculators

Free, no sign-up, at tools.getfinops.cloud.

AI and LLM

• LLM API cost calculator — Monthly cost of Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Amazon Bedrock models from your token volumes, with a side-by-side price table.

Compute

• EC2 cost calculator — Hourly, monthly and yearly on-demand cost for current-generation EC2 instance types in five AWS regions, from the AWS price list.
• Lambda cost calculator — Request and duration cost for AWS Lambda on x86 or Arm, with or without the free tier, from the AWS price list.
• EKS cost calculator — Clusters + nodes + utilisation → control-plane + node-fleet cost and the low-utilisation waste lever.

Commitments

• Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances calculator — Compare on-demand, Compute and EC2 Instance Savings Plans, and Standard and Convertible Reserved Instances for one EC2 instance type over one or three years, with break-even use and a Spot price sample.

Databases and logs

• RDS cost calculator — Instance, storage and Multi-AZ cost for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, from the AWS price list.
• ElastiCache cost calculator — Node-based and serverless cost for ElastiCache for Valkey, Redis OSS and Memcached by node type, node count and region.
• CloudWatch Logs cost calculator — Ingestion, storage and Logs Insights query cost for CloudWatch Logs, from the AWS price list.

Storage

• S3 storage cost calculator — Monthly S3 storage and request cost by storage class, with the tiered Standard rates, from the AWS price list.
• gp2 → gp3 savings calculator — Provisioned EBS GB → monthly and annual savings from switching gp2 volumes to gp3.

Waste and networking

• Cloud Waste Radar — Eight quick inputs → aggregate monthly waste estimate with the top 5 fixable opportunities ranked by dollar size.
• NAT Gateway cost calculator — Hourly + per-GB cost across your NAT gateways, plus the share that can move to free VPC endpoints.

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From the blog

Longer reads at getfinops.cloud/blog.

Reading the AWS bill

• AWS Cost Explorer vs. Pricing Calculator — Compare AWS Cost Explorer’s historical cost analysis with Pricing Calculator’s workload estimates, and distinguish projections from verified savings.
• AWS EDP Meaning: How the Enterprise Discount Program Works — AWS EDP is a negotiated spend commitment, not a Savings Plan. What counts toward it, how its discount stacks with RIs and Savings Plans, and how to forecast it.
• EC2 Stop vs. Terminate Cost: What Persists? — Compare EC2 stop and termination costs, identify charges that persist, and use a reversible checklist before retiring an idle instance.

Google Cloud

• GCP Egress Cost: Trace the Paths Behind Your Bill — Learn how to isolate GCP egress charges by service, region, and traffic path, then weigh savings against latency and architecture trade-offs.
• How to Review GCP Rightsizing Recommendations Before Applying Them — Review Google Cloud rightsizing recommendations against workload peaks, service objectives, effective cost, compatibility, and change windows.

Running FinOps

• FinOps Roles and Responsibilities: Who Owns Each Cloud Cost Decision — Who should discover, prioritize, approve, execute and validate a cloud cost optimization: a RACI matrix for FinOps, Finance, Platform Engineering and workload owners.
• FinOps Chargeback vs. Showback: How to Choose — Compare FinOps showback and chargeback by ownership, allocation confidence, accounting needs, and the behavior each model can support.
• FOCUS Explained: Normalize Multi-Cloud Billing Without Losing Detail — What the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) standardizes across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud billing, and why to keep native exports beside it.

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How the product does it

What the GetFinOps product does, one page per capability, at getfinops.cloud/features.

Remediation & Automation

• Agentic remediation — Run the fix in AWS, check the result, and roll reversible changes back automatically.
• Bounded-autonomy trust ladder — Choose, per account and action type, when a change must wait for a person.
• Findings engine — Waste and risk findings for AWS and GCP, with evidence, a confidence score and a next step.
• Guardrails & execution safety — Safety rules checked before an approved or automatic fix runs in AWS.
• Realized-savings verification ledger — Count a saving only after the change is looked up again in AWS and still holds.

Cost Management

• Budgets & commitments — Track spend against budgets, and see Savings Plans utilization and commitment recommendations.
• Multi-account & cross-account portfolio — Many AWS accounts and GCP projects in one workspace, with every finding tied to its account.
• Multi-cloud cost management — AWS and GCP spend in one workspace, split by account, with spike flags and AWS forecasts.
• Tag governance & cost allocation — Check AWS tags and GCP labels against one policy, group spend by tag, and fix AWS tags.

Observability

• AI-spend observability — Bedrock and Vertex AI spend by model, plus a call-by-call record of GetFinOps’ own AI use.
• Kubernetes cost — Split cluster cost across namespaces and workloads, and see where requests outgrow real use.
• SaaS spend — A register of SaaS subscriptions with renewals, overlapping tools and seat-use findings.
• Sustainability / CO₂e — CO₂e estimates for flagged AWS and GCP instances and EBS storage, exported as a Scope 3 report.

AI-native

• AI usage records — Every Claude call made for your workspace, recorded with its tokens, cost and request ID.
• Claude-written narratives & daily brief — CFO and SRE narratives on paid plans, a morning brief, and boards you describe in words.
• MCP server (read + gated write) — Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to your cost data, with approval-gated write tools.

Integrations & Platform

• Deployment models — Use the hosted service today; the self-hosted package is not on a marketplace yet.
• Security, MFA & audit — Workspace isolation, MFA, encrypted credentials and a tamper-evident audit trail.
• Slack-native approvals — Approve or dismiss AWS remediations from a Slack card that then shows the result.