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title: Cloud Cost Optimization
description: Find idle resources, rightsizing opportunities and hidden cloud waste across AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle. Save up to 30% of your cloud bill from month one.
url: https://www.getobok.com/cloud-cost-optimization
---

# Cloud Cost Optimization

> Find idle resources, rightsizing opportunities and hidden cloud waste across AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle. Save up to 30% of your cloud bill from month one.

Obok's Cloud Cost Optimization product identifies exactly where your cloud money is being wasted and gives you a prioritized list of actions to recover it — with specific resource names and dollar amounts, not percentages.

## What Obok finds

Every opportunity is quantified in dollars, not percentages — specific resource names and exact amounts.

### Idle & stopped resources
- EC2 instances stopped but still paying for EBS
- Load balancers with no active targets
- NAT Gateways with zero traffic
- Elastic IPs not attached to any instance

### Rightsizing opportunities
- RDS and EC2 instances running under 10% CPU
- Memory utilization vs provisioned capacity
- Lambda functions with excess memory allocation
- Specific downsize recommendation per resource

### Storage optimization
- S3 buckets in the wrong storage class (Standard vs. Infrequent Access vs. Glacier)
- Unattached EBS volumes and stale snapshots
- Old AMIs and unused container images
- Lifecycle policy gaps in S3 and Glacier

### Reserved & committed spend
- Reserved Instances expiring in the next 30 days
- Savings Plans with low utilization
- On-demand usage that could be reserved
- Cross-account RI sharing opportunities

### Database waste
- Idle RDS instances with no connections in 7+ days
- Multi-AZ enabled on non-critical environments
- Automated backups beyond retention policy
- Aurora clusters with a single instance

### Spend alerts & anomalies
- Alerts when spend rises more than a set threshold in 24 hours
- Service-level anomaly detection
- Monthly budget forecast vs actuals
- Cost spikes by account, region or tag

## Cloud providers supported

- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

## How it works

1. Connect your cloud account with read-only access in under 5 minutes
2. Obok analyzes usage patterns across all services and regions
3. A prioritized savings report lists specific resources and estimated savings
4. Act on recommendations directly or export to Jira, Slack, or your team's workflow
5. Track savings over time as you implement optimizations

## Key benefits

- **Real savings, not estimates** — specific resources, exact dollar amounts, not generic percentages
- **From month one** — teams typically save 20–30% in the first 30 days
- **Agentless** — read-only API access, nothing installed in your infrastructure
- **Multi-cloud** — single dashboard across AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle
- **FinOps-ready** — supports team cost allocation, tagging governance, and showback reporting

## Related products

- [Cloud Security](https://www.getobok.com/cloud-security) — Detect threats and misconfigurations
- [Compliance Assessment](https://www.getobok.com/compliance-assessment) — Score against 57 regulatory benchmarks

## Learn more

- [What are FinOps?](https://www.getobok.com/blog/what-are-finops) — Understanding Cloud Financial Operations

## Get started

[Start free on one cloud account](https://www.getobok.com/pricing) — see your savings estimate in minutes.