What is Finitizer CloudIQ
Finitizer CloudIQ finds cloud cost savings across AWS, Google Cloud and BigQuery, prices each one, prepares the change for your engineers, and tracks the saving until it is verified.
Finitizer CloudIQ is a cloud cost optimization product for AWS, Google Cloud and BigQuery. It connects to your accounts read-only and finds the resources that cost more than they should. It prices each one, then prepares the change for your engineers to review and ship.
Most cost tools answer "what did we spend?". CloudIQ answers the question that recovers money: which resource is wasting it, how much, and what exactly do we change.
The problem it solves#
Cloud spend stays high because finding waste is hard and acting on it is harder. Each change is a small project: find the opportunity, find the owner, prepare the change, assess the risk, get it reviewed, ship it, and measure the result. At $10 million a year of cloud spend, an organization may need 5,000 to 10,000 such changes. Engineering teams are busy with revenue work, and no one engineer can optimize AI, Kubernetes, networking, storage and cloud commitments at once.
CloudIQ does the finding, pricing and preparing. Your engineers do the reviewing and shipping, through the workflow they already use.
What it covers#
| Area | What CloudIQ provides |
|---|---|
| Clouds | AWS and Google Cloud, with query-level BigQuery analysis |
| Coverage | 30+ AWS services, 15 Google Cloud service families, and BigQuery workloads |
| Checks | 120+ automated checks across AWS and Google Cloud |
| Cadence | Daily audits, with hourly anomaly alerts on AWS. Each audit shows what changed since the last one |
| Access | Read-only by default. Nothing installed in your accounts, and no stored cloud credentials |
| Fixes | About 40 Terraform templates delivered as pull requests, 28 AWS runbook catalogs with rollback steps, BigQuery SQL rewrites, and Jira tickets |
| Proof | A savings ledger with five stages: identified, assigned, in progress, completed, verified |
| AI | Fini, a cost analyst on every page, and an MCP endpoint for your own AI tools |
Four solutions, one product#
CloudIQ is sold as one product. Its four solutions work from the same data and the same ranked list.
| Solution | What it does |
|---|---|
| Cloud Cost Optimization | Finds waste and design debt across compute, data, storage, networking, AI and serverless services, and prepares each fix |
| Rate Optimization | Plans Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and committed use discounts from real usage, and reviews support fees, enterprise agreements and Marketplace spend |
| Data Cloud Optimization | BigQuery from workload to query: expensive query patterns, slot reservations, pricing model fit, table storage and attribution |
| Workload Optimization | Finds what to right-size, schedule or clean up across VMs, Kubernetes, serverless and AI endpoints, and which workloads suit Spot |
AI spend from model providers and tools is a separate product, Finitizer Tokenomics, used on the same login.
Who it helps#
| Team | What changes |
|---|---|
| Platform engineering | Receives ready-to-review Terraform pull requests and runbooks with rollback steps, so changes move through the normal delivery process |
| Cloud operations | Grants read-only access with nothing to install. Every CloudIQ API call is visible in CloudTrail or Cloud Audit Logs |
| Data engineering | Gets query-level and slot-level BigQuery analysis, with proposed query rewrites to review |
| FinOps | Works from one prioritized list instead of disconnected dashboards and spreadsheets, with estimated and verified amounts kept apart |
| Finance | Sees potential savings ranked by confidence, and reports a saving only after a later audit confirms it |
What to expect#
Industry analysis puts cloud waste at roughly 30% of spend (McKinsey). In our practitioner experience, waste reduction and design changes together put 30% to 50% of cloud spend within reach. The range is wide on purpose. The result depends on your estate and on which changes you choose to ship. Your first audit shows how much there is to save.
What it is not#
- Not a remediation bot. Nothing changes in your environment without your approval. Changes leave as code, runbooks or tickets.
- Nothing to install. Access is read-only and API-based. Nothing runs in your accounts.
- Not a dashboard. You get priced findings with the fix prepared, not charts to interpret.
Next#
- How CloudIQ works: the four steps from connection to a saving you can prove
- Connect your cloud accounts: what you create, and what happens in the first day
- Security and access model: what CloudIQ can see, cannot see, and cannot do
Try this against your own spend
The free Cloud Cost Assessment switches on your billing exports with you and takes a read-only snapshot. You get more than 30 insights and your top savings ranked by dollars a month.