Introducing Cloud Spend Guard

Cloud bills are hard to read. They tell you how much you spent on EC2 or on block storage, but not which instance, volume or IP address the money went to, or whether anyone still uses it. The resources that cost money for nothing are rarely hidden. They are just hard to see.

Cloud Spend Guard is built to make them visible.

What it does

Connect a cloud account and Cloud Spend Guard takes a Snapshot of it every day: every resource it can find, where it lives, and what it costs.

• A map of your cloud. Regions, networks and subnets, with the resources inside them and what each one costs this month.
• Idle detection. Unattached volumes, stopped instances, unused IP addresses, load balancers with no targets. Each one is flagged with the reason and the date it became Idle.
• Recommendations. For every Idle resource: what to do, why, about how much it saves a month, and the exact aws, az, gcloud or doctl command to do it.
• Changes. Each Snapshot is compared with the one before, so you see what was added, what was deleted and what became Idle.
• Totals that match your bill. Costs that are not tied to a resource, such as tax, support or some data transfer, are shown separately, so the numbers add up to your invoice.

Four clouds

Cloud Spend Guard works with AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, Google Cloud projects and DigitalOcean teams. On AWS it covers around 30 resource types, from EC2 and RDS to NAT gateways, load balancers, Lambda functions and CloudWatch log groups.

Cost for Google Cloud projects is not read yet. Their resources and Idle detection work today.

Read-only by design

You are giving us a look inside your cloud, so we ask for as little as possible.

• On AWS, a CloudFormation stack you launch creates a role with the ViewOnlyAccess policy. We see your resources and their cost, not the contents of your buckets, tables or parameters.
• On Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean, you add a read-only service principal, service account key or access token.
• We never change anything. Recommendations come with commands, and you decide whether to run them.

Ask questions in plain English

Sam, the AI assistant built into Cloud Spend Guard, answers questions such as “What is my biggest cost this month?” or “Which volumes are not attached to anything?” from your data.

If you already use an AI assistant such as Claude Code, connect it to our MCP server with an API key and ask it the same questions.

Pricing

The Free plan has one cloud account per provider and no time limit. Pro is $20 a month for up to 20 cloud accounts and 90 days of Changes. Larger teams can talk to us about a Custom plan.

Try it

Create a free account, connect your first cloud account, and see what you find. We would love to hear what you think.