Four widgets do the heavy lifting. Click any number for the detail.
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Optimization Score
Single 0–100 number for monthly spend efficiency. Drill down to the recommendations driving the score.
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AI Narrative Summary
Plain-English summary of where money is going and what to do about it. Schedulable to email.
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Top Cost Drivers
Services ranked by spend with month-over-month change. Click any service for usage-type breakdown.
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Forecast Tile
Projected monthly cost based on current usage trends — surprises caught before invoice day.
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 visibility — purchase recommendations on the roadmap
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
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.
100 means we found no meaningful savings — your spend looks efficient. 0 means we found savings equal to your monthly spend (rare). Most accounts land in the 60–85 range and improve over weeks as recommendations get applied.
Open the highest-dollar recommendations first. Score recomputes daily, so you see movement within a day of applying changes. Apply, snooze, or mark-resolved from inside the dashboard.
Yes — mute per-recommendation, per-account, or org-wide. Muted recs remain visible but stop counting against the score and stop appearing in narrative reports.
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.
Yes — CUR is the primary data source for resource-level recommendations and forecasting. If your account does not have CUR enabled, we still produce service-level recs from Cost Explorer; resource-level recs require CUR.
For most cost recommendations, no — we surface and explain; you apply. For security findings where remediation is well-known and safe, the separate "Fix Available" feature can apply one-click fixes (with a scoped opt-in policy, never via the baseline read-only role).
Yes — the narrative report exports to PDF; recommendations export to CSV or XLSX. Useful for sharing with finance and for tracking what was applied between months.