API Cost Guard

API Cost Guard

API Cost Guard is a tool designed to help you optimize your cloud infrastructure costs. It identifies areas within your infrastructure that can be improved for better cost efficiency. By using API Cost Guard, you can retrieve scan data, access recommendations, and manage resources to ensure you are getting the most out of your cloud spending.

Benefits

API Cost Guard offers several key benefits:

• Cost Optimization: Identifies areas in your infrastructure that can be optimized for cost savings.
• Detailed Scan Data: Provides comprehensive information on scans, including scan names, IDs, and metadata.
• Recommendations: Offers actionable recommendations to reduce waste and improve resource utilization.
• Resource Management: Helps you manage resources more effectively by providing insights into their usage and potential savings.

Use Cases

API Cost Guard can be used in various scenarios to optimize cloud infrastructure costs:

• Right-Sizing: Identifies underutilized virtual machines (VMs) and suggests appropriate sizing to reduce costs.
• Idle Resources: Detects idle resources such as databases, Elastic IPs, and S3 buckets, and recommends actions to either utilize or decommission them.
• Kubernetes Optimization: Analyzes Kubernetes deployments, stateful sets, and other resources to ensure optimal CPU and memory usage.
• Datadog Metrics: Identifies idle custom metrics and logs in Datadog to reduce unnecessary costs.
• GCP Optimization: Provides recommendations for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources, including VMs, snapshots, and persistent disks.

Vibes

Users have found API Cost Guard to be a valuable tool for optimizing their cloud infrastructure costs. The detailed scan data and actionable recommendations have helped them identify and address areas of waste, leading to significant cost savings. The tool's ability to provide insights into various cloud services makes it a versatile solution for different cloud environments.

Additional Information

API Cost Guard is part of Finout's suite of tools aimed at helping businesses manage and optimize their cloud costs. By leveraging Finout's expertise in cloud cost management, API Cost Guard provides reliable and effective solutions for cost optimization.