Enterprise-grade cloud cost visibility and optimization platform designed from a Cloud Architect perspective.
This project demonstrates how modern cloud architecture must integrate financial governance (FinOps) with technical design to ensure scalability, cost control and operational resilience.
Cost dataset (CUR-like simulation)
→ Data Lake pattern (S3 as source of truth)
→ Python FinOps analytics engine
→ KPI generation & anomaly detection
→ Executive dashboard (Streamlit)
→ Production-style deployment on AWS EC2
Most companies believe they have a cloud strategy.
In reality, they only have a growing monthly bill.
Cloud without financial control becomes operational debt.
This project demonstrates how cloud architects can implement cost visibility, anomaly detection and governance from day one.
- Total cloud spend tracking
- Cost by service
- Cost by environment (prod vs dev)
- Cost by region
- NAT Gateway cost spikes
- Service-level cost dominance
- Environment cost anomalies
- Waste signal detection
- Real-time visualization
- Cost allocation visibility
- KPI summaries for leadership
- Operational insights
- Hosted on AWS EC2
- Persistent service using systemd
- Secure access via security groups
- Remote dashboard access
- AWS EC2
- AWS S3 (data lake concept)
- Python (Pandas analytics engine)
- Streamlit dashboard
- FinOps methodology
- NAT Gateway responsible for ~46% of total cost
- Production environment driving majority of spend
- Daily anomaly detection for cost spikes
- Cost allocation visibility by environment
Cloud architecture is not only about infrastructure. It is about:
- Cost governance
- Financial visibility
- Operational resilience
- Business alignment
A system that scales technically but not financially is not sustainable.
- Integrate real AWS CUR billing data into S3
- Query with Athena over the cost data lake
- Automate anomaly detection with Lambda
- Budget alerts via SNS
- Multi-account governance dashboard
- FinOps automation workflows
Fernando Kuellar
Cloud Architect | FinOps | Multicloud | AWS | OCI