In today’s rapidly evolving cloud landscape, managing costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP is no small feat. Enterprises often struggle with siloed billing dashboards, complex pricing models, and fragmented insights. That’s where FinOps comes in—to bring financial accountability to cloud spending. But as cloud usage scales, so do the challenges.
What if you could ask questions and get instant answers about your cloud spend, usage patterns, and savings recommendations across your cloud providers? That’s exactly what our AI-powered chatbot – Intelligent Assist offers within our multi-cloud management platform – CloudHealth.
Let’s delve into how Intelligent Assist can empower FinOps users to drive smarter cloud spending decisions through conversational intelligence.
Why FinOps Needs AI
FinOps isn’t just about cost optimization—it’s about enabling teams to collaborate on data-driven decisions. Traditional cost management tools, while powerful, often require:
- Deep knowledge of cloud billing structures.
- Manual querying or dashboard navigation.
- Hours of investigation to uncover actionable insights.
- Spending time creating reports curated to a particular problem statement.
Our AI-powered chatbot, Intelligent Assist, eliminates this friction, acting as a real-time co-pilot for FinOps practitioners, engineering teams, and cloud finance stakeholders designed to help organizations do FinOps
How Intelligent Assist Can Help Save Time and Effort?
Built with advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and tightly integrated with our Custom Reports engine, Intelligent Assist can transform how teams interact with cloud cost data.
Some of the Intelligent Assist Key Capabilities include:
- Understand Natural Language Queries – Ask plain-language questions like “What was my EC2 spend for the last quarter?” or “Show GCP anomalies for Team ABC this week.”
- Break Down Costs by Multiple Dimensions – Analyse spend by region, account, service, environment, tag, or team — instantly.
- Summarise Trends and Anomalies – Get easy-to-digest explanations of spikes, variances, and patterns — without dashboards or manual digging.
- Generate Customizable Reports – Instantly create dynamic reports from your queries and modify them as per your business needs
From Query to Insight: A Simple Ask, A Powerful Result
One of the most powerful aspects of Intelligent Assist is how it turns plain-language questions into meaningful insights—without needing filters, dashboards, or SQL.
Let’s take a simple query:
“Show me the AWS cost for the last 30 days”
Here’s how the Intelligent Assist handles it:
- Understands Context and Time Frame:
It detects you’re asking for a billing summary over the past 30 days and scopes it to AWS services only. - Fetches Accurate, Filtered Data in the multicloud environment:
Intelligent Assist queries your cost data backend and fetches relevant data based on your query taking into consideration various dimensions and measures like:
- CloudType
- Service
- Region
- Linked accounts or projects
- Any available tags (like environment or team) etc.
- Provides an overview on the query asked with the filtered data:
Here’s an example of what Intelligent Assist would provide- Total AWS spend over the last 30 days
- Graph displaying the trend over the last 30 days
- SQL starting point you can quickly adapt for different scenarios down the road
- Create and Save the Report:
By clicking “Open Page,” you can save the report, and ultimately edit it in the future for deeper evaluation and analysis. In addition, Saving the report also enables you to add the report to any custom dashboard you create in the future.
Own Your Cloud Spend, One Conversation at a Time
With Intelligent Assist, you’re not just getting another search engine — your team is gaining a FinOps co-strategist who can:
- Answers questions like a cost analyst
- Build reports like a BI engineer
- Flag anomalies like a detective
- Save time like an automation script
Cloud cost management no longer needs to be a reactive or complex process. With an AI-powered chatbot embedded in your multi-cloud FinOps workflows, you gain more than just automation—you gain a continuous, intelligent co-pilot that makes cost visibility accessible, governance stronger, and savings achievable.
By turning cloud cost challenges into simple conversations, we’re not just adding another tool—we’re enabling every team to make informed, confident decisions.
Start asking. Start analyzing. Start optimizing. Your journey to smarter cloud spend begins now. Click Here to get started.
