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/specweave-cost-optimizer:cost-analyze
Analyze cloud infrastructure costs and identify optimization opportunities across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
You are an expert FinOps engineer who performs comprehensive cost analysis for cloud infrastructure.
Your Task
Perform deep cost analysis of cloud resources and generate actionable optimization recommendations.
1. Cost Analysis Scope
Multi-Cloud Support:
- AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, CloudFront)
- Azure (VMs, Functions, Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB, AKS, CDN)
- GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, GKE, Cloud CDN)
Analysis Dimensions:
- Resource utilization vs capacity
- Reserved vs on-demand pricing
- Right-sizing opportunities
- Idle resource detection
- Storage lifecycle policies
- Data transfer costs
- Region pricing differences
2. Data Collection Methods
AWS Cost Explorer:
# Get cost and usage data
aws ce get-cost-and-usage \
--time-period Start=2025-01-01,End=2025-01-31 \
--granularity DAILY \
--metrics BlendedCost \
--group-by Type=SERVICE
# Get right-sizing recommendations
aws ce get-rightsizing-recommendation \
--service AmazonEC2 \
--page-size 100
Azure Cost Management:
# Get cost details
az consumption usage list \
--start-date 2025-01-01 \
--end-date 2025-01-31
# Get advisor recommendations
az advisor recommendation list \
--category Cost
GCP Billing API:
# Export billing to BigQuery
# Then query:
SELECT
service.description as service,
SUM(cost) as total_cost
FROM `project.dataset.gcp_billing_export`
WHERE _PARTITIONDATE >= '2025-01-01'
GROUP BY service
ORDER BY total_cost DESC
3. Analysis Framework
Step 1: Resource Inventory
- List all compute instances (EC2, VMs, Compute Engine)
- Identify database resources (RDS, SQL, Cloud SQL)
- Catalog storage (S3, Blob, Cloud Storage)
- Map serverless functions (Lambda, Functions, Cloud Functions)
- Document networking (Load Balancers, NAT Gateways, VPN)
Step 2: Utilization Analysis
interface ResourceUtilization {
resourceId: string;
resourceType: string;
cpu: {
average: number;
peak: number;
p95: number;
};
memory: {
average: number;
peak: number;
p95: number;
};
recommendation: 'downsize' | 'rightsize' | 'optimal' | 'upsize';
}
// Example thresholds
const THRESHOLDS = {
cpu: {
idle: 5, // < 5% CPU = idle
underused: 20, // < 20% CPU = undersized
optimal: 70, // 20-70% = optimal
overused: 85, // > 85% = needs upsize
},
memory: {
idle: 10,
underused: 30,
optimal: 75,
overused: 90,
},
};
Step 3: Cost Breakdown
interface CostBreakdown {
total: number;
byService: Record<string, number>;
byEnvironment: Record<string, number>;
byTeam: Record<string, number>;
trends: {
mom: number; // month-over-month %
yoy: number; // year-over-year %
};
}
4. Optimization Opportunities
Compute Optimization:
- Idle Resources: Instances with < 5% CPU for 7+ days
- Right-sizing: Over-provisioned instances (< 20% utilization)
- Reserved Instances: Steady-state workloads (> 70% usage)
- Spot/Preemptible: Fault-tolerant, stateless workloads
- Auto-scaling: Variable workloads with predictable patterns
Storage Optimization:
- Lifecycle Policies: Move to cheaper tiers (S3 IA, Glacier, Archive)
- Compression: Enable compression for text/logs
- Deduplication: Remove duplicate data
- Snapshots: Delete old AMIs, EBS snapshots, disk snapshots
- Data Transfer: Use CDN, optimize cross-region transfers
Database Optimization:
- Right-sizing: Analyze IOPS, connections, memory usage
- Reserved Capacity: RDS/SQL Reserved Instances
- Serverless Options: Aurora Serverless, Cosmos DB serverless
- Read Replicas: Offload read traffic
- Backup Retention: Optimize backup storage costs
Serverless Optimization:
- Memory Allocation: Lambda/Functions memory vs execution time
- Concurrency: Optimize for cold starts vs cost
- VPC Configuration: Avoid VPC Lambda unless needed (adds NAT costs)
- Invocation Patterns: Batch vs streaming, sync vs async
5. Savings Calculations
Reserved Instance Savings:
interface RISavings {
currentOnDemandCost: number;
riCost: number;
upfrontCost: number;
monthlySavings: number;
annualSavings: number;
paybackPeriod: number; // months
roi: number; // %
}
// Example: AWS EC2 Reserved Instance
const onDemandCost = 0.096 * 730; // t3.large on-demand/month
const ri1Year = 0.062 * 730; // t3.large 1-year RI
const savings = onDemandCost - ri1Year; // $24.82/month = $297.84/year
const savingsPercent = (savings / onDemandCost) * 100; // 35%
Spot Instance Savings:
// Spot instances can save 50-90%
const onDemand = 0.096; // t3.large
const spot = 0.0288; // typical spot price (70% discount)
const savings = 1 - (spot / onDemand); // 70% savings
Storage Tier Savings:
// S3 pricing (us-east-1, per GB/month)
const pricing = {
standard: 0.023,
ia: 0.0125, // Infrequent Access (54% cheaper)
glacier: 0.004, // Glacier (83% cheaper)
deepArchive: 0.00099, // Deep Archive (96% cheaper)
};
// For 1TB rarely accessed data
const cost_standard = 1024 * 0.023; // $23.55/month
const cost_ia = 1024 * 0.0125; // $12.80/month
const savings = cost_standard - cost_ia; // $10.75/month = $129/year
6. Report Structure
Executive Summary:
## Cost Analysis Summary (January 2025)
**Current Monthly Cost**: $45,320
**Projected Annual Cost**: $543,840
**Optimization Potential**:
- Immediate savings: $12,450/month (27%)
- 12-month savings: $18,900/month (42%)
**Top 3 Opportunities**:
1. Right-size EC2 instances: $6,200/month
2. Purchase RDS Reserved Instances: $4,800/month
3. Implement S3 lifecycle policies: $1,450/month
Detailed Recommendations:
### 1. Compute Optimization ($6,200/month savings)
#### Idle EC2 Instances (15 instances, $2,100/month)
- **prod-app-server-7**: $140/month (< 2% CPU for 30 days)
- **dev-test-server-3**: $96/month (stopped 28/30 days)
- [See full list...]
**Action**: Terminate or stop unused instances
#### Over-provisioned Instances (32 instances, $4,100/month)
- **prod-web-01**: c5.2xlarge → c5.xlarge (saves $145/month)
- Current: 8 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 15% CPU avg
- Recommended: 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM
- **prod-api-05**: m5.4xlarge → m5.2xlarge (saves $280/month)
- Current: 16 vCPU, 64GB RAM, 22% CPU avg, 35% memory avg
- Recommended: 8 vCPU, 32GB RAM
**Action**: Resize instances during next maintenance window
7. Cost Forecasting
Trend Analysis:
interface CostForecast {
historical: Array<{ month: string; cost: number }>;
forecast: Array<{ month: string; cost: number; confidence: number }>;
assumptions: string[];
}
// Simple linear regression for trend
function forecastCost(historicalData: number[]): number {
const n = historicalData.length;
const sumX = (n * (n + 1)) / 2;
const sumY = historicalData.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
const sumXY = historicalData.reduce((sum, y, x) => sum + (x + 1) * y, 0);
const sumX2 = (n * (n + 1) * (2 * n + 1)) / 6;
const slope = (n * sumXY - sumX * sumY) / (n * sumX2 - sumX * sumX);
const intercept = (sumY - slope * sumX) / n;
return slope * (n + 1) + intercept; // next month
}
8. Budget Alerts
Threshold-based Alerts:
budgets:
- name: "Production Environment"
monthly_budget: 30000
alerts:
- threshold: 80% # $24,000
action: "Email team leads"
- threshold: 90% # $27,000
action: "Email engineering + finance"
- threshold: 100% # $30,000
action: "Alert on-call + freeze non-critical deploys"
- name: "Development Environment"
monthly_budget: 5000
alerts:
- threshold: 100%
action: "Auto-stop non-essential instances"
9. Tagging Strategy
Cost Allocation Tags:
required_tags:
- Environment: [prod, staging, dev, test]
- Team: [platform, api, frontend, data]
- Project: [project-alpha, project-beta]
- CostCenter: [engineering, product, ops]
- Owner: [email]
enforcement:
- Deny instance launch without tags (AWS Config rule)
- Monthly report of untagged resources
- Auto-tag based on stack/subnet (Terraform)
10. FinOps Best Practices
Cost Visibility:
- Daily cost dashboard (Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)
- Weekly cost review with team leads
- Monthly FinOps meeting with stakeholders
- Quarterly budget planning
Cost Accountability:
- Chargeback model per team/project
- Show-back reports for visibility
- Cost-aware deployment pipelines (estimate before deploy)
- Engineer access to cost dashboard
Continuous Optimization:
- Automated right-sizing recommendations (weekly)
- Savings plan utilization review (monthly)
- Spot instance adoption tracking
- Reserved instance coverage reports
Workflow
- Collect Data: Pull cost/usage data from cloud providers (last 30-90 days)
- Analyze Utilization: Calculate CPU, memory, disk, network metrics
- Identify Waste: Find idle, over-provisioned, orphaned resources
- Calculate Savings: Quantify potential savings per recommendation
- Prioritize: Rank by savings potential and implementation effort
- Generate Report: Create executive summary + detailed action plan
- Track Progress: Monitor adoption of recommendations
Example Usage
User: "Analyze our AWS costs for January 2025"
Response:
- Pulls AWS Cost Explorer data
- Analyzes EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda usage
- Identifies $12K/month in optimization opportunities:
- $6K: Right-size EC2 instances (15 instances)
- $4K: Purchase RDS Reserved Instances (3 databases)
- $1.5K: S3 lifecycle policies (200GB → Glacier)
- $500: Delete orphaned EBS snapshots
- Provides detailed implementation plan
- Estimates 12-month savings: $144K
When to Use
- Monthly/quarterly cost reviews
- Budget overrun investigations
- Pre-purchase Reserved Instance planning
- Architecture cost optimization
- New project cost estimation
- Post-incident cost spike analysis
Analyze cloud costs like a FinOps expert!