MonthlyBillz

Daily AWS Cost-Meter Report

Begin the day with a quick snapshot in Slack that tells whether your AWS costs are trending normally or not. Act on cost anomalies right away, and save money. Don’t wait for the month-end bill.

AI-generated cost forecast

The forecast bill amount shown in the report directly comes from AWS Cost Explorer, powered by their AI analysis of your billing history - reliable projections for you to plan for next month.

Improved AWS cost visibility

Publishing the report in your business Slack channel increases accessibility, gets finance and engineering teams on the same page. Improves collaboration, and cost awareness across teams.

Workflow with cost drill-down capabilities

Leverage Slack workflow capabilities, and make the reports and insights actionable. Have those cost-centric conversations.

AWS Cost Insight Alerts

Get periodic Slack message alerts that detect which of your AWS services are unused/under-utilized. Don’t wait for ad hoc reviews with engineers to find out dollars wasted.

Perpetual cost-utilization tracking

Powered by MonthlyBillz ‘Cost Optimization Repository (COR)’ get cost saving insights for your key AWS services like EC2, EBS, Lambda, RDS, and a lot more.

Customizable alert paramaters

Based on business needs, setup your own alerting thresholds, and services to be monitored for cost - all in the admin panel. Avoid low-value distracting alerts.

Critical event notifications

Get alerted on upcoming expiry of Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for timely action and avoiding cost escalations.

AWS Best-Practices Recommendations

As your infrastructure grows, it is important to ensure services are deployed in line with industry best practices. This avoids complexity, and helps avoid unmanageable cost situations in future.

AWS resource alternatives

Regular recommendations like high performance, low cost alternatives for current EC2 instances etc.

Resource tagging compliance

Untagged AWS resources are hard to track and analyze for cost savings. Get recommendations of higher-cost untagged resources in Slack channel.

Incremental architectural improvements

Acting on architectural improvements then and there is going to be much easier to implement than a full-blown rearchitecture exercise.

Generative AI-powered Chatbot

Both out-of-the-box AWS reports and insights generated by MonthlyBillz are instantly available through a conversational chatbot. Ask anything about your running AWS costs and ideas to lower them, and get surprisingly clear answers.

Save time looking at multiple reports for Spend Management

All your cost related insightsare routinely fed into S3 buckets and then transferred to Vector databases - the source of truth for the chatbot powered by Generative AI. Make reliable conversation with your chatbot powered by your own data context, minimizing hallucinations and getting inaccurate, outdated information

Improve developer productivity

Avoid distracting technical folks by asking them for frequent updates on the cost trends. Cut down on generating excessive ad hoc reports, and review times to keep a check on costs.

Timely action for saving costs

No need to setup separate team meetings to review AWS spend ,only to find later you have forgotten to review your spend for last 5 months. Just open up the chatbot to know everything about your costs.

Consolidate all cost-related alerts on Slack

Email notifications of Cloudwatch and your other cost-related AWS alerts can easily be missed in the clutter. So, get those notifications directly on your Slack channel.

Simple setup

Just use the unique SQS ARN provided for your business, when you sign up for MonthlyBillz. Use it for whichever cost alert you want to see on your Slack channel.

Unified cost management channel

Improved cost focus by viewing your MonthlyBillz as well as home-grown cost alerts in a single Slack channel. MonthlyBillz takes care of instant delivery of your alerts.

Improved alert lifecycle

When the alerts are received in the Slack channel, there are a lot more actions and workflows you can perform. Alerts in emails get missed out many times, leading to runaway costs.

FAQ

When AWS provides features like Cost Explorer, why do I need MonthlyBillz?

MonthlyBillz is NOT a flat-out substitute for any of AWS or 3rd party vendor tools. Instead, you will find us as a ‘convenient tool’ that leverages whatever AWS offers for infrastructure cost savings.
Our Cost Optimization Repository will grow to a large collection of proven industry best practices. This means highly relevant, actionable insights are continuously delivered to your team in your company’s Slack Channel.
We basically make cost optimization a routine and easy activity for you

Why should I use MonthlyBillz when I can engage AWS consultants?

By all means, AWS consultants are your best bet for bigger and more complex architectural decisions that are of infrequent nature. But, for routine cost monitoring and optimizations, you need a tool like MonthlyBillz.
It is constantly scanning your spend pattern and powered by an ever-growing Cost Optimization Repository, you will virtually be squeezing ‘cost-saving juice’ out of your AWS setup, forever.

How can you assure that my business data is safe with you?

Our servers and data stores are securely designed and hosted in the highly reliable AWS Infrastructure. We transparently get only required ‘read’ access from you, and never write or attempt to modify anything in your account. Customer data is encrypted, and all dashboard user accesses are supported with 2-factor authentication.

How effective is your cost optimization capability?

Our goal is to be your only tool that gets ‘Routine AWS Cost Optimizations’ done.
It is cumbersome for you to pull developers out of business-critical tasks and explore cost savings every now and then. We know the challenge there and that’s why MonthlyBillz was built.
Having said that, we are constantly evolving our in-built Cost Optimization Repository to cover maximum AWS Services and usage scenarios, as we grow along with your business.

How much will you charge for AWS cost savings achieved using your recommendations?

ZERO. Unlike many others, we don’t take a cut in your cost savings dollars. It is your money.
We operate purely on a low-cost Subscription Model and constantly strive to add more optimization capabilities and best practices to MonthlyBillz.

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A chatbot interface to review and control your AWS spend.