Cost Visibility and Control · Flagship Assessment

Where are we overspending?

And what should you do about it? Oscar identifies every optimization opportunity, maps dependencies and ownership, and shows exactly what can be changed safely, all within the first 24 hours.

<1 hrengineering time to connect your environment
24 hrsto full findings across all six optimization domains
~29%of annual run rate typically identified as recoverable savings
6optimization domains analyzed simultaneously, not sequentially

What the assessment delivers

Six domains. One scan. One report.

A Cloud Optimization Assessment analyzes your full environment across six dimensions simultaneously. Every finding carries a confidence score, ownership attribution, and a remediation horizon. Here is what the report looks like.

Section 00
Executive Summary and Optimization Score
An overall optimization score (0 to 100), environment-level savings breakdown, and prioritized critical findings with risk classification and action horizon.
Executive Summary and Optimization Score section of the Cloud Optimization Assessment report
Section 02
Zombie and Orphaned Resource Scan
Three-criteria confidence scoring separates genuinely idle resources from periodically used ones. High-confidence removals flagged for immediate action.
$680K/yr typical savings
Zombie and orphaned resource scan section of the Cloud Optimization Assessment report
Section 03
Right-Sizing Analysis
P95 utilization over 90 days, correlated against deployment schedules. Dependency map confirms no downstream service relies on full capacity before any recommendation.
$820K/yr typical savings
Right-sizing analysis section of the Cloud Optimization Assessment report
Section 04
Storage Optimization and Lifecycle Gaps
S3 storage class gaps, lifecycle policy misconfigurations, and snapshot over-retention. Flags compliance risk and unnecessary spend simultaneously.
$490K/yr typical savings
Storage optimization and lifecycle gaps section of the Cloud Optimization Assessment report
Sections 05 + 06
Network Waste and Commitment Coverage
NAT gateway traffic that could route via free VPC endpoints, cross-AZ transfer waste, and On-Demand spend on workloads stable enough for Reserved Instance commitments.
$785K/yr typical savings
Network and data transfer waste section of the Cloud Optimization Assessment report
Section 07
AI Agent and Automation Spend
Per-agent cost attribution, token spend trends, runaway loop detection, and shadow agent identification. No standard FinOps tool covers this category.
No other tool covers this
AI agent and automation spend section of the Cloud Optimization Assessment report

Where This Begins

The flagship assessment, and the start of the waste journey.

This is the default entry point to Cost Visibility and Control. It begins the waste journey: Find Cloud Waste, Investigate Waste Findings, Prioritize Waste Removal. The first run also builds the Cloud Intelligence Graph™ that every other cost offering and journey then uses, and establishes your Benchmark, the baseline your monitoring measures against.

What it hands you is a chain, not a document: findings become recommendations, recommendations become proposed tasks, and the Benchmark makes progress measurable from that day forward.

  • Already have findings from another tool? Start with Oscar Pro for Cloudability instead: your existing findings validated for safety and ranked by real ROI.

Six Optimization Domains

What standard FinOps tooling misses in every domain

A FinOps tool sees your bill. The Context Graph sees your environment. In every domain, that difference changes what is actionable.

Domain
What standard FinOps misses
What the Context Graph adds
Zombie Resources
Gap

A list teams don't trust. Can't tell a quarterly batch job from dead weight.

OpsCanvas

Three-signal scoring. 247 of 312 confirmed high confidence.

Right-Sizing
Gap

Utilization numbers with no dependency context. Teams don't act.

OpsCanvas

Dependency map verifies safety first. Surfaces 214 candidates Compute Optimizer missed.

Storage and Lifecycle
Gap

GB and tier costs. No governance or compliance context.

OpsCanvas

Compliance scope cross-referenced against actual lifecycle config. Cost and regulatory gaps in one finding.

Network and Transfer
Gap

NAT charges appear in the bill. Source is invisible without dependency data.

OpsCanvas

Service dependency map traces which calls generate cross-AZ traffic and unnecessary NAT routing.

Commitment Coverage
Gap

RI tools can't tell stable workloads from volatile ones. Risky commitments.

OpsCanvas

Pipeline stability verified per workstream before any commitment recommendation.

AI Agent Spend
Blind spot

No FinOps tool covers agent identity. Token costs and runaway loops are invisible.

OpsCanvas

Per-agent cost attribution, runaway loop detection, and shadow agent identification.

The Real Blocker

Optimization stalls because teams can't act confidently. The Context Graph fixes that.

Every finding comes with the evidence needed to move. Who owns this? What depends on it? What breaks if it changes? Answered before you act.

Ownership attributed, not guessed

Every finding traces to a team or individual via pipelines, CI/CD history, and identity records, not tags alone.

Blast radius before you act

The dependency map shows what will be affected by every proposed change before anything touches production.

Confidence scores on every finding

High-confidence removals are separated from items needing ownership verification. Work the right things first.

Idle vs. purposefully quiet

DR standbys and quarterly batch jobs look idle. The Context Graph carries months of history to tell the difference.

Governance memory built in

Team preferences like 'maintain 10% headroom' are captured once in the Context Graph and applied consistently to every recommendation.

Shared context across your team

Oscar Pro lets your whole team work remediations together. One engineer's investigation benefits everyone. No repeated discovery.

How It Works

Less than one hour of your team's time. Results in 24 hours.

No multi-week onboarding. No consultants to brief. No data export to prepare. Oscar connects with read-only credentials and does the work.

1

Connect your environment

Read-only credentials, your existing role assumptions. No changes made. No credentials stored centrally. Works across AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously. Your team's involvement at this stage: under one hour.

Under 1 hour of engineering time
2

Oscar builds the Context Graph

Oscar correlates cloud account data against deployment pipelines, CI/CD history, identity records, VCS commit history, runtime telemetry, and AI agent logs. Six domains analyzed simultaneously. No team time required.

Fully automated
3

Report delivered in 24 hours

Resource-level findings with confidence scores, ownership attribution, environment classification, and remediation horizons for every item. Not a list of opportunities. An evidence-backed plan your team can act on immediately.

Full findings in 24 hours

Why OpsCanvas

How we compare to the alternatives.

Every FinOps team considers the same options. Here is where each falls short.

What matters
Other ways (Consultants, FinOps tooling, or DIY)
OpsCanvas Assessment
Time to findings
Other ways (Consultants, FinOps tooling, or DIY)8 to 16 weeks minimum
OpsCanvas Assessment24 hours
Engineering time
Other ways (Consultants, FinOps tooling, or DIY)Weeks of interviews or tagging effort
OpsCanvas AssessmentUnder 1 hour to connect
Understands live environment
Other ways (Consultants, FinOps tooling, or DIY)Interviews, bill data, or your own docs
OpsCanvas AssessmentLive Context Graph. No documentation assumed.
Blast radius analysis
Other ways (Consultants, FinOps tooling, or DIY)Manual or not available
OpsCanvas AssessmentAutomated. Resource-level. Before every action.
AI agent spend
Other ways (Consultants, FinOps tooling, or DIY)Not covered by any tool or consultant
OpsCanvas AssessmentPer-agent attribution, trend detection, runaway loops

What You Receive

Not a list. An evidence-backed plan.

Every item in the assessment report is backed by traceable evidence. Here is what every engagement delivers.

Cloud Optimization Assessment: Report Deliverables6 deliverables
D-01
Optimization Score
0 to 100 composite score, domain breakdown and industry benchmark
D-02
Resource-Level Findings
Confidence tier, savings estimate, ownership, and remediation horizon per resource
D-03
Critical Findings Report
Full evidence, blast radius analysis, and step-by-step remediation with approval gates
D-04
90-Day Remediation Roadmap
Now / Next / Later bucketing for maximum early savings with minimum risk
D-05
Ownership Attribution Map
Every candidate traced to team, app, or individual via multi-source evidence
D-06
Evidence Basis Documentation
APIs queried, data windows, and correlation methodology. Audit-ready.

Where It Leads

Two ways to keep going on the same graph.

The assessment answers the question and builds the graph. What comes next depends on what you need: depth on prioritization, or the hold that keeps the achieved state achieved. If your organization runs a FinOps practice, the sequence maps directly onto the FinOps Foundation lifecycle: the assessment informs, monitoring and remediation optimize and operate.

Prioritization depth

Oscar Pro for Cloudability

When the findings pile up, ours or another tool's, Oscar Pro validates them for safety against dependencies and change history, ranks them by real ROI, and tracks every fix to verified savings.

Delivers

  • Safety verdicts with evidence: safe, unsafe, or needs review
  • ROI-ranked remediation plan
  • Owned, tracked tasks, verified after the fix
Explore Oscar Pro for Cloudability →
The hold

Cloud Cost Monitoring

Recurring reassessment and continuous detection against your Benchmark. New waste, spend anomalies, and attribution drift surface as they appear, and drift becomes new tasks instead of a new project.

Delivers

  • Movement measured against the Benchmark this assessment established
  • New waste and spend anomalies surfaced as they appear
  • Quarterly, monthly, or continuous cadence
See how Monitoring works →
The Bigger Picture

Part of the Cost Visibility and Control solution.

The Cloud Cost Optimization Assessment is the flagship entry point to a continuous cost practice: correlated visibility from the Cloud Intelligence Graph™, journeys from finding waste through forecasting with confidence, and tasks that carry the work to verified done.

Get Started

Find out what you are spending on that you do not need to be.

Less than one hour of your team's time to connect. Full findings across all six optimization domains in 24 hours. Evidence your team can act on, not a list to argue about.