An automated cloud service that uses machine learning to identify unusual spikes or unexpected changes in your cloud spending. Like having a smart credit card alert that notices when your spending pattern suddenly changes — it catches runaway costs before they become huge bills.
A startup using AWS Cost Anomaly Detection gets an instant alert when a developer accidentally leaves 50 GPU instances running overnight, catching a mistake that would have cost $12,000 per day within the first hour — before the monthly bill becomes a budget crisis.