Surface and Fix Costly Configs, Anywhere They Live
Cloud Ex Machina identifies expensive defaults, inefficient behaviors, and high-cost architectures, and routes fixes to the right teams.
Config Cost Checks
Flag oversized volumes, premium SKUs, and other expensive defaults.
Cloud ex Machina scans infrastructure for cost-impacting configuration choices like oversized volumes or high-tier defaults and delivers concrete recommendations to the teams responsible.
Why It Works:
- Flags misconfigurations tied to real services and teams
- Suggests safer, cost-effective alternatives
- Integrated into existing engineers workflows
Behavioral Spend Flags
Detect patterns like excess retries, noisy services, and high-fanout traffic.
Cloud ex Machina detects behavioral patterns that drive up cost such as excess retries or unnecessary inter-service calls and maps them to the responsible service. Each issue includes root cause, impact, and actionable changes.
Why It Works:
- Detects behavioral cost drivers from logs, traces, and metrics
- Links patterns to services and teams
- Provides technical guidance to correct the issue
Architecture Fit Suggestions
Recommend lower-cost designs based on observed workload behavior.
Cloud ex Machina recommends alternative services or configurations that reduce cost without degrading performance. Each recommendation includes workload fit, estimated savings, and implementation guidance.
Why It Works:
- Matches recommendations to observed workload behavior
- Quantifies tradeoffs and expected cost impact
- Ready to be implemented by owning teams
Embedded Cost Policies
Enforce rules in CI, pull requests, and Infrastructure as Code deployments.
CloudExMachina enforces cost-aware policies during development, catching violations in CI, PRs, or tickets before changes are deployed. Guardrails are version-controlled, team-scoped, and designed to minimize friction.
Why It Works:
- Flags cost-impacting changes before deploy
- Adapts to different team environments
- Maintains speed while enforcing standards
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