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Why The OpsPilot Exists
Why The OpsPilot Exists
Cloud cost is still discovered too late.
Teams plan features, commit to roadmaps, and make architectural choices without knowing what those decisions will cost. By the time the bill arrives, the work is live, the assumptions are embedded, and the options are limited.
Most FinOps tools respond to this reality.
The OpsPilot exists to change it.
TOP works differently by learning how cost behaves in your environment — the architectural defaults, scaling patterns, and usage characteristics that silently shape spend — and using that behavior model before decisions are locked in.
- Your AWS topology and service layout
- How resources are connected
- Where data moves across services and availability zones
These include :
- Infrastructure metrics
- Network traffic patterns and data transfer paths
- Resource metadata and configuration context
TOP only extracts derived results and metadata needed to understand cost behavior. These signals reveal how cost actually grows, not how it was intended to.
All collections are read-only, encrypted, and scoped to the minimum required permissions
- How workloads scale
- How data transfer contributes to cost
- Which architectural patterns are common vs exceptional
- Where cost grows linearly vs non-linearly
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With our Jira integration, you can :
- Associate planned work with cost expectations
- View estimated cloud cost per ticket or initiative
- Compare architectural options before committing to them
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- Your intent (what you’re planning to build)
- Your existing environment context (from the crawler)
- TOP’s service-specific cost engines
- Your architecture
- Your defaults
- Your growth patterns
How You Use The OpsPilot
Cost Estimation Inside Jira (Planning-Time Cost Visibility)
TOP integrates directly with Jira, allowing teams to request cost estimates from within the ticket where work is being planned.
- Call TOP to estimate the cost impact of the work
- View cost drivers tied to that ticket
- Compare alternative approaches before implementation
- Understand whether a change is financially minor or structurally significant
This brings cost into the same workflow as scope, timelines, and risk — without requiring a separate tool or process.
Cost Estimation in the TOP Console (Scenario Exploration)
TOP also provides a dedicated console where you can describe a workload in plain English.
For example
“We’re building a service that processes ~2TB/day, uses EMR and S3, and needs high availability.”
TOP translates that intent into a structured estimate using:
- Your existing environment context
- Service-specific cost engines
- Realistic architectural defaults
Fully Adjustable, Not a Black Box
Whether you use TOP through Jira or the console, every estimate is transparent and adjustable.
You can interactively change
- Instance types and sizes
- Availability and redundancy assumptions
- Scaling and utilization expectations
- Data transfer volumes and paths
- Service configurations and architectural choices
As you adjust inputs, TOP shows how cost behavior changes across scenarios.
This allows teams to:
- Understand why something costs more
- See which decisions matter financially
- Explore tradeoffs instead of guessing
- TOP provides guidance — you remain in control.
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