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Cut AWS spend by 25–40% — without becoming a FinOps team

AI narrative reports plus per-service recommendations, forecasts, and a single Optimization Score. Read the bill in 60 seconds instead of 60 minutes.

Dashboard tour

Everything you need to read the bill, on one page

Four widgets do the heavy lifting. Click any number for the detail.

Refine dashboard showing month-to-date cost, projected monthly cost, potential savings, optimization and security scores, a stacked cost trend chart and a service breakdown1234
  1. Projected Monthly Cost

    Where the month lands if usage holds, with the change against last month — surprises caught before invoice day, not after it.

  2. Potential Savings

    Split into what a billing scan confirmed and what the model estimates on top, so you can see which half is evidence and which is inference.

  3. Optimization Score

    Single 0-100 number for monthly spend efficiency. Drill down to the recommendations driving the score.

  4. Cost Trends

    Spend stacked by service, with the unfinished month projected from its run-rate, so a step change is attributable to the service that caused it.

Four capability blocks

How Refine turns the bill into action

Narrative reports, service-led recs, forecasts, and a single score. The same engine that runs against connected accounts also runs against uploaded bills.

AI Narrative Reports

A 60-second plain-English summary of where money is going and what to do about it — in your inbox or on the dashboard.

  • Top cost drivers by service, region, and account
  • AI commentary explaining month-over-month changes
  • Plain-English recommendations ranked by dollar impact
  • Schedulable daily, weekly, or monthly

Service-Led Recommendations

Per-service breakdowns with the moves we already know work — right-sizing, idle resources, storage class moves.

  • EC2 right-sizing with workload-aware suggestions
  • EBS volume gp2 → gp3 migration opportunities
  • S3 storage class lifecycle moves
  • RDS instance class downsizing
  • Reserved Instance / Savings Plan coverage, utilization and purchase recommendations — with a planner that sizes the commitment

Forecasts

Don't get surprised by the bill. Projected monthly cost and budget-vs-actual show where you'll land, today.

  • Projected monthly cost KPI on the dashboard
  • Monthly Totals chart with historical and projected spend
  • Budget vs actual per account, service, or tag
  • Per-service trend lines for spot-checking

Optimization Score

A single 0–100 number that tells you how close you are to efficient. Trend over time so you know you are moving in the right direction.

  • Weighted by potential savings, not just count of issues
  • 30-day rolling trend with daily snapshots
  • Drill from score → contributing recommendations
  • Pairs with Security Score for one-glance health

After the report

The part most tools stop before

A report tells you what is wrong once. These are the surfaces that keep working after you have read it — investigating a number, deciding about a recommendation, and proving later that the decision was worth it.

Cost Explorer, and a question box

Pivot by service, region, resource or any tag key; compare two periods; save the view you keep rebuilding. Or just type "RDS cost last 3 months" — the question becomes a query, never an answer, so the same deterministic engine computes the number and what you read always matches the table.

A recommendation you decided about stays decided

Accept, snooze or dismiss with a reason, and the decision is keyed to the finding rather than to the month. Next month’s rescan does not hand you back the thing your team already looked at and said no to.

A savings ledger, not a savings rate

Most tools publish what is coming off your bill this month. This publishes the lifetime total, built from verification records rather than projections — each month expandable to the fixes behind it, both measurement windows, and the method, so you can re-derive it from your own FOCUS export.

Where the bytes went

Data transfer is the line nobody can explain and everybody pays. Refine breaks the flows out and ranks them, so an inter-AZ chat between two services shows up as a number with a name on it.

Refine's Cost Optimization Recommendations table: unattached EBS volumes and idle EC2 instances with per-resource monthly savings, a confidence score and an Open status
Every finding names the resource, the monthly saving and a confidence score — and says plainly when confidence is low enough that you should verify in the console first. Resource identifiers here are synthetic.

How the Optimization Score is computed

Methodology, calibration, and how to move the number.

Example

76/ 100

+6 in 30 days. After applying the top 3 right-sizing recs and tightening S3 lifecycle.

  • All open recommendations, weighted by potential monthly dollar savings. A recommendation worth $1,000/month counts ten times more than one worth $100/month — so the score reflects opportunity, not noise.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A first-pass narrative is ready within 60 seconds of connecting. Full resource-level recommendations populate within a few minutes as we walk your CUR — typical accounts complete in under 10 minutes.

See the cost drivers already hiding in your AWS bill

Free under $2,000/month of AWS spend. Read-only access. Revoke anytime.

Refine is built and supported by HabileLabs, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner.