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Evidence-backed cloud savings

See which spend is addressable, how certain it is, and what captures it.

Cost Optimizer separates actual, catalog, estimated, heuristic, unpriced, excluded, uncertain, and addressable spend. Deterministic waste, rightsizing, commitment, anomaly, storage, and network findings retain exact source lineage, while action proposals and execution use immutable receipts, scoped approvals, and postcondition verification.

Cost Optimizer

Design

Prompt, code, pattern, or live context

Review

Cost, threat, scale, and compliance

Document

CoDocs, HyperDocs, and share links

Govern

Discovery, drift, and IaC continuity

Evidence before savings

Require direct waste evidence and sufficient utilization or billing history instead of converting missing data into a recommendation.

No double-counting

Group conflicting recommendations so overlapping savings never inflate the addressable total.

Governed action path

Move from finding to proposal, approval, execution receipt, and realized-versus-projected measurement.

How it works

The workflow behind Cost Optimizer.

Each step exists to reduce time-to-clarity for technical teams without forcing them into a separate diagramming or documentation toolchain.

Step 1

Bind the cost evidence scope

Select billing, utilization, commitment, inventory, catalog, account, and time-window sources.

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Step 2

Analyze deterministic opportunities

Review exact-money findings, coverage, confidence, conflicts, constraints, and scenarios.

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Step 3

Plan and verify action

Create an immutable proposal, obtain scoped approval, and verify any certified provider or IaC mutation.

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Best fit

Waste eliminationRightsizingCommitment and storage planning

Integrations

AWSAzureGCPCloud InventoryIaC Orchestration

Outputs

Savings bridgeEvidence ledgerGoverned action receipts

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Next step

See Cost Optimizer inside the full Architecto workflow.

Start on the free plan, then move from this feature into the larger architecture, review, and documentation flow when the team is ready.

Cost Optimizer | Architecto | Architecto