Cost Intelligence & Protection
Real-time cost observability, anomaly detection, and budget guardrails
Cost Observability Metrics
Daily Burn
$4,850
Monthly Actual
$145,800
Cost Per User
$3.22
Per AI Call
$0.042
Monthly Cost Breakdown
Compute (AWS EC2/EKS)
$46,656
32%
+3%Data Storage & DB
$34,992
24%
+5%AI/LLM APIs
$26,244
18%
+12%Data Transfer
$17,496
12%
-2%Third-party Services
$11,664
8%
+1%Observability & Logs
$8,748
6%
+8%Cost Anomaly Detection Thresholds
Daily Burn Rate
Threshold: >$6,000
$4,850
Compute Cost Spike
Threshold: >25% daily change
+1.2%
AI/LLM Cost
Threshold: >$25K/day
$1,890
Storage Growth
Threshold: >10GB/day
+2.1 GB
Third-party Overage
Threshold: >20% quota
8.3% quota
Automatic Cost Protection Triggers
Daily burn >$6K
Alert finance team + engineering review
ARMED
Monthly forecast >$200K
Cost optimization task created
ARMED
AI calls >1M/day
Auto-throttle non-critical AI
ARMED
Storage >500GB
Trigger archival job
ARMED
Cost Impact at Scale
Current (45K users)
Daily
$4,850
Monthly
$145,800
Users
45,230
2x Traffic (90K users)
Daily
$8,940
Monthly
$268,200
Users
90,460
5x Traffic (225K users)
Daily
$21,850
Monthly
$655,500
Users
225,150
10x Traffic (450K users)
Daily
$43,700
Monthly
$1,311,000
Users
450,300
Vendor Exposure & Risk Classification
AWS
$25K/month reserved
HIGH RISK (7/10)
Contingency: Azure migration plan
OpenAI
$5K/month + overage
MEDIUM RISK (4/10)
Contingency: Claude fallback active
Stripe
2.2% + $0.30/txn
MEDIUM RISK (3/10)
Contingency: PayPal ready
SendGrid
$80/month fixed
LOW RISK (2/10)
Contingency: Brevo backup
Cost Intelligence Summary
- ✅ Real-time cost tracking – $4,850/day with granular breakdown
- ✅ Unit economics measured – $3.22/user, $0.0012/request, $0.042/AI call
- ✅ 5 anomaly thresholds active – daily burn, compute spike, AI costs, storage, overage
- ✅ 4 cost protection triggers – auto-throttle, task creation, alerts
- ✅ Scaling cost modeled – 2x to 10x scenarios with forecast accuracy
- ✅ Vendor risk classified – 4 vendors monitored with fallback strategies