A cloud architecture cost review that reads the bill
Most cost tools stop at the number. The harder, more valuable question is architectural: which design choice is driving that spend, who owns it, and what is the safest way to change it. CloudJaeger attaches that judgment to the bill — deterministically, with the evidence shown.
The problem: the bill and the design live in different rooms
A cloud bill is the downstream shadow of hundreds of architecture decisions — an instance family chosen a year ago, a cross-region data path, a redundancy tier a service may not need, a chatty integration that quietly moves terabytes. Cost dashboards report the shadow. They rarely point back at the decision that cast it, and almost never say which team is in a position to change it.
So the review that would actually reduce spend — the one where an architect looks at the design behind an expensive service and asks whether it needs to be that way — usually happens late, by hand, and only for the very biggest line items. Everything smaller stays a mystery, and the mysteries compound.
The wedge: judgment attached to the bill
CloudJaeger’s architecture review is deterministic. It produces pillar findings with severities and a rough-order-of-magnitude cost figure, validated against golden scenarios at every release, so the same design always yields the same review. But the differentiator is not the review in isolation — it is that the review sits on top of bill-backed spend and an ownership map. A finding is not a generic best-practice lint; it is anchored to a real service, a real owner source, and a real (projected) dollar figure.
That is the chain the rest of the tooling market tends to break: spend on one screen, architecture advice on another, ownership nowhere. Putting them on one row is what lets a review become a decision instead of a document.
- 1Which service caused the spend A data-transfer charge climbs. CloudJaeger reads it bill-backed from the invoice line, not an estimate, and shows the service it belongs to.
- 2Which team owns it The service resolves to an owner source — configured or inferred — so the finding lands with the people who can actually change it, and unowned spend is never hidden.
- 3Which architecture choice drives it The review ties the charge to a design decision — say a cross-region read path — with a severity and a rough-order-of-magnitude figure, so the cause is named, not guessed.
- 4What action is safest A reversible change — colocating the read path — ranks ahead of a one-way rebuild at the same projected impact. The dollar figure stays a projection until the next invoice grades it.
Deterministic findings, projected figures, human decisions
Everything on that walk is scored deterministically. The language model writes the explanation; it never decides the severity or the ranking. Cost figures carry a projected label until a real invoice moves and grades them — an architecture review that quietly turned rough estimates into claimed savings would be worse than useless, so CloudJaeger simply does not.
And a review never acts on its own. Execution ships off; arming a change requires a written mandate with caps and a named approver on every run. The review’s job is to make the decision obvious and safe — then a human makes it.
Review a design before the bill even exists
The same engine runs before deployment. Point it at a proposed architecture and it returns the same pillar findings and rough-order-of-magnitude cost, so a design can be reviewed for cost while it is still cheap to change — at the whiteboard, not after three months of invoices. Reviewing the shape of a system before it ships is the cheapest optimization there is.
CloudJaeger is in private beta. Access is manually reviewed and owner-approved — no public signup. No account is created until access is approved.
Request access and a founder reads it — a read-only first scan comes before anything else.
Attach architecture judgment to your own bill.
A read-only first scan, then findings that name the design choice behind the spend — you decide what changes.