What TOP Does for Your Current Infrastructure

TOP helps you understand why your AWS environment costs what it costs, using cost modeling grounded in how your infrastructure actually behaves.

Instead of starting from the bill, TOP starts from your running system and builds a model that connects architecture, usage, and cost.

Builds a cost model of your existing AWS environment based on real usage, topology, and traffic patterns

Breaks down costs by actual cost drivers, not just AWS service names
Explains why a service is expensive (or growing), not just how much it costs
Attributes cost to behaviors:
- Inefficient scaling defaults
- Network paths (NAT, inter-AZ, egress, endpoints)
- Over-provisioned compute
Identifies where actual usage diverges from assumed design
Surfaces optimization opportunities that are specific to how your workloads run today

What This Lets You Answer

What is actually driving our AWS bill?
Which parts of the architecture contribute most to cost and why?
Are we paying for capacity or paths we don’t really need?
Which assumptions in our original design turned out to be wrong?
Where would optimization have the biggest real impact?

How This Is Different From Traditional Cost Views

Traditional FinOps tools show spend after the fact.
TOP models cost as a function of system behavior:
You see how cost emerges and which levers actually move it.