2026-07-06
Your monthly FinOps report, delivered automatically
#finops #cost-optimization #aws #reporting
We now send you an automated monthly FinOps report, so you can see where last month’s AWS spend went and where you can save, without digging through Cost Explorer yourself.
When it arrives
On the 3rd of every month we open a GitHub issue in your repository, titled FinOps Monthly Report: <Month Year> and labelled finops and monthly-report.
We run it on the 3rd rather than the 1st on purpose: it gives AWS time to finalise the previous month’s cost data, so the report always covers a complete month and compares it against the month before. No partial months, no apples-to-oranges numbers.
What’s in it
The report consolidates every account in your setup into a single issue:
- Spend summary. Total spend for the month that just closed versus the month before, with the change and the percentage difference, so you can see the trend at a glance.
- Cost breakdown by service. Your top services by spend, month over month, plus the biggest movers so an unexpected increase stands out immediately.
- Savings recommendations. AWS Reserved Instance and Compute Savings Plans recommendations, each with its estimated monthly saving.
- Cleanup opportunities. Unattached EBS volumes, EBS snapshots older than 180 days, and RDS snapshots older than 180 days, each with the monthly cost it is quietly adding, plus RDS instance utilisation (14-day average) to surface over-provisioned databases.
- An action checklist. Every opportunity is listed as a checkbox with its estimated saving, so you can work through them and tick them off as you go.
The report only reads your accounts. It never changes, resizes or deletes anything, so you stay in full control of what actually gets actioned.
Want a hand prioritising the opportunities or turning them into changes? Reach out and we’ll go through it with you.