# CostObserver

> The SecFinOps Platform. Know what's Expensive, what's Risky, and what to Fix First.

## Summary

CostObserver is a SecFinOps platform that helps engineering and FinOps teams understand, prioritise, and fix cloud cost issues by linking billing data with security signals and resource behaviour. It identifies the root cause of cost spikes and provides actionable remediation.

## What is CostObserver

CostObserver is a SecFinOps platform that connects cloud billing data, security signals, and resource behaviour to explain why cloud costs increase — and what to fix. It is not a cost dashboard. It is a root cause and remediation tool.

CostObserver connects cloud billing data, security signals, and resource behaviour in one view. It helps Engineering Leaders, FinOps Professionals, and DevOps Engineers understand why cloud costs spike — not just that they did.

## What CostObserver Does

- Unifies billing data, security signals, and resource behaviour
- Links cost spikes to their root cause (misconfiguration, exposure, or compromise)
- Ranks issues by financial impact so teams know what to fix first
- Generates Terraform and AWS CLI remediation commands
- Integrates in minutes with read-only cloud access

## Common Use Cases

- Investigating sudden AWS cost spikes
- Identifying compromised or misconfigured resources driving unexpected spend
- Detecting publicly exposed services contributing to cost
- Prioritising remediation by financial impact
- Reducing context switching between cost and security tools

## Who It Is For

- Engineering Leaders who need to stop surprises before they hit
- FinOps Professionals who need cost spikes linked to architectural cause, not just line items
- DevOps and Platform Engineers who need to stop context switching between tools

## Key Differentiators

- SecFinOps positioning: cost + security + resource behaviour in one platform
- Read-only access only — CostObserver never writes, modifies, or deletes anything in your cloud account, and does not have access to your application code, databases, or workloads
- Data is logically isolated at the database level per organisation
- Data is never sold, shared, or used to train models
- AI connects billing data, security signals, and resource behaviour to identify root cause

## Cloud Support

- AWS: available now (public beta)
- GCP and Azure: on the roadmap
- Oracle, Alibaba, Tencent, IBM: planned

## Current Status

Public beta. Free. No credit card required.

## Important Pages

- Homepage: https://costobserver.com
- Sign up: https://app.costobserver.com/signup
- About: https://costobserver.com/about
- Pricing: https://costobserver.com/pricing
- Blog: https://costobserver.com/blog
- Write for Us: https://costobserver.com/blog/write-for-us
- Security: https://costobserver.com/security
- Privacy Policy: https://costobserver.com/privacy
- Terms of Use: https://costobserver.com/terms

## Terminology

- SecFinOps: the discipline of unifying security, finance, and operations context for cloud cost decisions
- Security signals: security findings and exposure data linked to cloud resources
- Resource behaviour: runtime and configuration data for cloud resources (instance type, region, uptime, exposure)
- Logical isolation: data separated at the database level per organisation — not shared across tenants