Your cloud costs have a report card. Do you know your grade?
FinOps Center evaluates your AWS environment across three dimensions — waste elimination, commitment strategy, and resource modernization — and gives you a single, honest score. Not a dashboard full of numbers. A grade.
WHY DID WE BUILD? ↓
Engineering teams do not act on lists. They act on deadlines. A recommendation without a SLA is a suggestion.
Most FinOps tools give you a list of recommendations. Then they leave you to figure out what matters.
Most FinOps tools give you a list of recommendations and a dashboard. Then they leave you to figure out what matters, who owns what, and how fast it should be done. The Cost Saving Report Card gives FinOps leaders a single view of cloud cost management performance — not just what AWS is recommending, but whether your organization is responding at the right pace. Grades update daily as your environment changes and as your team acts.
An improving grade is visible proof of progress. A declining grade is an early warning before the next bill lands.
THE COST SAVING REPORT CARD
Three dimensions. One grade. Updated every day.
Stop the Waste
Idle resources, unattached volumes, oversized instances. Every recommendation has an effort-adjusted SLA based on the complexity of the action. Acting within the SLA maintains your grade. Letting recommendations age past their window drives it down.
Buy Smarter
Savings Plans coverage, Reserved Instance utilization, and commitment efficiency. The grade reflects not just whether you have commitments, but whether those commitments match your actual consumption pattern and whether the business is maintaining them.
Modernize
Graviton migration, gp3 volume conversions, and architectural modernization opportunities. These actions have longer SLA windows given their complexity. An improving grade here reflects sustained engineering investment, not one-time fixes.
HOW GRADING WORKS
Effort-adjusted SLAs. Accumulated loss. No gaming.
Effort-adjusted SLA windows
Every AWS recommendation carries an effort level. Deleting an unattached volume is a five-minute action. Migrating to Graviton is a multi-week project. The SLA for each recommendation is adjusted for effort — quick wins have tight windows, complex actions have longer ones. The grade reflects responsiveness relative to effort, not raw volume of open recommendations.
Accumulated loss tracking
Every day a recommendation sits open past its SLA, the accumulated cost of inaction grows. FinOps Center tracks this as accumulated loss — the dollars that have been left on the table since the recommendation surfaced. An A-grade organization acts on high-effort items within their SLA. The accumulated loss on overdue items is the cost of not acting.
Daily updates, not weekly reports
Grades update daily as your environment changes and as your team acts. A recommendation resolved today moves your grade today. A new recommendation surfaced today starts its SLA today. The grade is a live signal, not a monthly summary that arrives after the bill.