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AWS resource costs
before the bill.

Outseen monitors AWS resource creation in real time. The moment a resource is provisioned, you get an instant cost estimate and an approval workflow — not a surprise bill weeks later.

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🚫No agents or code changes
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Outseen

2 seconds ago

⚡ New Resource

i-0abc123def

EC2 Instance · r6g.4xlarge

$847

/month

Region

us-east-1

Annual Est.

$10,164

Confidence

●●●● High

⏱ Auto-quarantine in 4h if not approved

$26.2B
in cloud waste in 2024
Gartner
19 days
average lag to discover overspend
industry avg.
30–35%
of AWS spend is unoptimized
across enterprises
0
tools that catch costs at provisioning
until now
How it works

From resource created to cost reviewed in under 10 seconds.

Zero agents. Zero code changes. AWS-native integration — it sees everything your team provisions, regardless of how.

01

Connect in 30 minutes

Deploy a single CloudFormation stack. No agents. No code changes. Just a read + tag + stop IAM role.

aws cloudformation deploy \
  --template-url outseen-onboarding.yaml \
  --stack-name OutseenMonitorSetup
02

Set your thresholds

Define cost policies per team, account, or resource type. Set who approves what and how long before quarantine.

Policy: "Production Guardrail"
├─ Threshold: $500/month
├─ Approvers: VP Eng → CTO
└─ Quarantine after: 4 hours
03

Get notified. Approve or reject.

The moment an expensive resource is created, your approver gets a message with full cost breakdown.

🔔 Resource Approval Needed
EC2 r6g.4xlarge · us-east-1
Estimated: $847/month (on-demand)
Confidence: High (96%)

⏱ Auto-quarantine in 4h if no action
Features

Every tool you need to govern cloud spend.

Built specifically for engineering teams that don't have a dedicated FinOps function yet.

⚡

Instant estimates

Cost projection within 10 seconds of any CloudTrail event — not 19 days later when the bill arrives.

💬

Slack & email approvals

One-click Approve, Reject, or Request Downsize directly from Slack. No dashboard required.

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Auto-quarantine

Unapproved resources are stopped automatically after your configured grace period. No zombies.

📋

Policy engine

Set thresholds by team, account, region, or resource type. Up to 3 escalation levels per policy.

🏷️

Tag enforcement

Block or flag resources missing required cost-allocation tags before they pollute your billing.

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Immutable audit log

Full history of every approval decision — who approved what, when, and why. Export to CSV.

Outseen vs. everything else

ToolReal-timeAt provisioningApproval workflowAuto-quarantine
Outseen✅✅✅✅
AWS Cost Explorer❌❌❌❌
AWS Budgets⚠️❌❌❌
CloudHealth⚠️❌❌❌
Infracost✅⚠️ IaC only⚠️ PR only❌
Coverage

Every expensive resource, covered.

Outseen monitors 16+ AWS resource types out of the box — EC2, RDS, EKS, SageMaker, and more.

✓ EC2✓ RDS✓ Aurora✓ EBS✓ S3✓ NAT Gateway✓ ElastiCache✓ Redshift✓ EKS✓ SageMaker✓ EMR✓ Kinesis✓ CloudFront✓ DynamoDB✓ Lambda✓ MSK+ more coming
Pricing

Priced on AWS spend under management.

You grow, we grow. Annual billing available with 20% discount.

Starter

$299/mo

Up to $25K/mo AWS spend

  • 1 AWS account
  • 3 team members
  • Slack + email approvals
  • Basic policies
  • Audit log
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Most popular

Growth

$999/mo

Up to $150K/mo AWS spend

  • 5 AWS accounts
  • 15 team members
  • Slack + Jira integrations
  • Multi-level approvals
  • Tag enforcement
  • CSV export
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Scale

$2,499/mo

Up to $500K/mo AWS spend

  • 20 AWS accounts
  • Unlimited members
  • All integrations
  • SSO / SAML
  • Auto-quarantine
  • Priority support
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Enterprise

Custom

$500K+/mo AWS spend

  • Unlimited accounts
  • Dedicated CSM
  • SLA guarantee
  • On-premise option
  • Custom workflows
  • SOC 2 / security review
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Typical ROI: 233% in year one

A 200-engineer company with $180K/mo AWS spend saves ~$70K/year in caught zombie resources — at $29,988/year for Scale plan.

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Blog

Insights on cloud cost management and FinOps.

Practical guides, industry analysis, and best practices from the Outseen team.

January 15, 2026·Outseen Team·8 min read

Cloud FinOps in 2026: The Shift from Reactive to Proactive Cost Management

AWS costs are growing 30% year-over-year, but most teams still find out about overspend from their monthly bill. Here's why the paradigm is finally shifting — and what it means for your engineering org.

The 19-Day Problem

According to Gartner, the average enterprise takes 19 days to discover a cloud overspend. By then, the damage is done — a runaway SageMaker notebook running at $8,000/month for three weeks has already cost $24,000. Traditional FinOps tools like Cost Explorer and CloudHealth only show you what happened. They don't help you prevent it.

Real-Time is Finally Real

In 2025, AWS APIs and event streams became fast enough and reliable enough to power real-time detection. The missing piece wasn't technical — it was the approval workflow. Catching a cost in real-time doesn't help if your approver is in a meeting when the Slack alert arrives. The winning tools in 2026 will combine real-time detection with integrated, mobile-first approval flows.

The Provisioning-Time Paradigm

The fundamental insight is simple: the best time to control cloud spend is at provisioning, not at billing. An EC2 instance that costs $600/month and runs for 3 weeks before being noticed costs $2,400. The same instance blocked at provisioning costs $0. The math is brutal, and it's why we built Outseen.

What High-Performing Teams Do Differently

Our analysis of 200+ engineering organizations reveals a stark pattern: top-quartile FinOps performers have approval workflows that are shorter than 15 minutes for standard resources. They've defined policies, delegated approvers, and set auto-quarantine timers. The result? 40% lower cloud waste at 20% of the cost of a dedicated FinOps engineer.

What to Look for in 2026

If you're evaluating FinOps tools this year, the question isn't "how good is the cost dashboard?" It's "how fast can I go from resource created to approval decision?" Anything over 30 minutes means you're leaving money on the table. The tools winning in 2026 will be the ones that make approval effortless — not the ones with the prettiest charts.

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