optimnow

Expert FinOps guidance for cloud, AI, SaaS and data-platform spend. Ask Claude how to reduce a bill, size a commitment, allocate shared costs or justify AI spend, and it answers with billing mechanics, decision rules and worked examples, not generic advice. Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Kubernetes and on-premises or hybrid estates, including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Azure Hybrid Benefit and contract negotiation. AI: Anthropic, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, open-weight model APIs, AI coding tools, agent costs, self-hosted vs managed inference. Data platforms: Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric. FinOps practice: allocation, showback and chargeback, forecasting, operating model, FOCUS multi-cloud cost data, tagging, anomalies, KPIs, workload onboarding, SaaS and IT asset management, GreenOps. Waste playbooks: 44 runbooks for waste patterns such as idle NAT gateways, orphaned disks, snapshot sprawl, unused reservations, oversized GPUs and coding-agent token waste. Each gives a detection query to run in your account, the fix, and a confidence level. Good to know: this plugin adds instructions only and does not connect to your cloud accounts. Open source (CC BY-SA 4.0), maintained by OptimNow and updated weekly.

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