[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled an AI tool called 'AWS FinOps Agent' to help companies reduce cloud costs.

SiliconANGLE reported on June 9 that AWS FinOps Agent is currently available in public preview.

'AWS FinOps Agent' displays data collected by AWS cost tracking and optimization services through an interactive interface. Developers can enter the information they need in natural language and view results in a table format.

AWS FinOps Agent is focused on detecting anomalous spending. Engineers can check whether any applications used an unusually large amount of infrastructure last month. Users can also set it to filter out small cost fluctuations that do not affect broader trends.

When a spending spike occurs, AWS FinOps Agent shows which cloud services saw higher outlays along with the user activity that caused it. For example, it can point to a workload that ran more queries than usual when spending on Amazon Relational Database Service increased.

It also displays information on the business unit responsible for the workload, supporting more efficient responses by users.

'AWS FinOps Agent' also suggests ways to cut costs based on AWS Cost Optimization Hub data. It can identify cases where workloads running on low-utilization instances should be moved to smaller machines.

'AWS FinOps Agent' can generate periodic cost reports as well as answer queries. If it finds anomalous spending, it proactively alerts administrators, and results can be checked through a dedicated chatbot interface and on Slack and Jira.

'AWS FinOps Agent' follows the launch of 'AWS Security Agent' and 'AWS DevOps Agent,' AI tools for administrators that AWS formally released about three months ago. 'AWS Security Agent' finds workload vulnerabilities deployed on AWS cloud and external infrastructure, while 'AWS DevOps Agent' supports the resolution of technical issues such as application failures.