I'm Jorel -- engineer and founder of Dragon Fractal, building Cloud Cost Analyzer (CCA). After spending a year consulting on AWS cost optimization, I kept seeing the same patterns hidden in plain sight in AWS Cost Explorer -- idle NAT Gateways, unattached EBS volumes, CloudWatch logs no one reads, cross-AZ chatter. CCA surfaces these automatically with plain-English recommendations and Docker-pullable IAM-role detection. Community tier is free, forever.
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Launching Cloud Cost Analyzer: Free Tier, Real Product, No Demo Mode
Cloud Cost Analyzer is live. Here's what it does, what it costs, and how to try it in the next five minutes.
ReadWhy I Ship an Agent You Run in Your Environment
CCA's agent runs in your environment, collects metrics with your credentials, and sends them to the service for analysis. Here's why I designed it this way.
ReadBuilding a Read-Only IAM Role That Auditors Actually Trust
How I designed CCA's IAM role to be genuinely least-privilege -- and why that decision matters more than any feature on the roadmap.
ReadWhat AWS Cost Explorer Actually Hides From You
AWS Cost Explorer shows you what you spent. It doesn't show you what you wasted. Here's what its default grouping logic obscures.
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