by Maria Deutscher

Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence tool designed to help organizations lower their cloud bills.

AWS FinOps Agent is initially available in public preview. It’s the latest in a series of AI tools that the Amazon.com Inc. unit has released over the past year to ease cloud administrators’ work.

AWS provides several services that can help customers track their cloud spending and find optimization opportunities. FinOps Agent makes the data collected by those services available through a ChatGPT-like interface. Developers can describe the information they wish to access and have the AI display it in a tabular format.

One of the tasks that FinOps Agent eases is detecting anomalous expenses. For example, an engineer could ask it to check if there are any applications that used an unusually large amount of infrastructure in the past month. Users can optionally have the tool filter small cost fluctuations that likely don’t indicate the presence of a major issue.