Reduce AWS bills with automated, numbers-backed optimization recommendations

Engineering and FinOps teams struggle with opaque, growing AWS bills and spend hours on manual analyses that produce low-trust recommendations; they need prioritized, numbers-backed actions that quantify savings and risk. Many organizations also can’t reliably convert those recommendations into safe, auditable changes, so predicted savings frequently never materialize. You could build a SaaS that continuously analyzes AWS usage and billing, surfaces prioritized recommendations with estimated savings and confidence scores, and offers automated, auditable remediation (one-click IaC PRs or CI/CD rollouts) plus closed-loop tracking of realized savings. Key integrations would include billing APIs, CloudTrail, Terraform/CloudFormation, and finance systems so FinOps and procurement can validate outcomes. The timing is favorable: an addressable market of about $3.6B (600K businesses × $6K ACV) paired with rising FinOps headcount, tighter margin scrutiny, and mature IaC/CI practices creates repeatable buyers and urgency to adopt cost tools. Competition is high, so the defensible edge is turning recommendations into demonstrable, low-risk outcomes — make savings estimates defensible, provide robust safety guardrails and audit trails, and ship integrations that prove realized ROI; if you solve those trust and automation gaps you can win durable customers despite a crowded field.