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# Cost Optimization & Guidance
Jane AI and related cost services help you estimate spend, spot waste, and narrate billing trends. Numbers are guidance — validate against your cloud provider’s official billing consoles before making financial decisions.
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### Where Cost Features Appear
| Surface | What you get |
| ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Deployed Resources** | **Cost advisor** / **Analyze costs**; **AI cost forecast** / **Forecast next month** |
| **Dashboard** | Quick link **Cost report** → Deployed Resources; InfraGlide AI tips are heuristic, not live Jane cost calls |
| **Pipeline docs / TCO** | Estimate total cost of ownership for a pipeline design |
| **Monitoring overview** | Infra digest / health cards that may include cost-adjacent narrative |
| **Settings / Jane features** | Cost alert thresholds (also under cost-alerts APIs) |
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### Cost Advisor
**Analyze costs** asks Jane to review deployed resource inventory for the org/project scope and return qualitative savings ideas and right-sizing suggestions.
* Price source: primarily **LLM estimation** over resource snapshots in InfraGlide’s DB — not a full AWS Price List crawl for every line item.
* Use it for ideation; confirm with provider calculators.
Figure 1: Jane AI Infrastructure Cost Estimation & Advisory
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### Cost Forecast
**Forecast next month**:
* **AWS:** uses Cost Explorer style history/forecast APIs when the credential allows, then Jane narrates the trend.
* **Non-AWS:** LLM heuristic forecast only.
Shows an estimated next-month amount, range, and trend commentary.
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### TCO Estimator
Pipeline-scoped TCO estimates monthly ranges, cost drivers, and assumptions.
* Prefers Gemini citing published list-price style reasoning.
* Falls back to server heuristic tables when the model is unavailable.
Always read the assumptions section — growth and usage guesses dominate TCO variance.
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### Alerts & Narratives
* **Cost alert thresholds** — save thresholds Jane/cost services can evaluate.
* **Billing spike / anomaly narrative** — natural-language explanation of infrastructure expenditure spikes.
* **Capacity & Anomaly Detection** — smart advisory helpers for cost optimization.
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## 🪙 Cost Features & Dashboards
### 1. Pre-Deploy Cost Estimation
* Estimates monthly spend directly from canvas resource specs (instance types, storage gigabytes, node counts).
* Helps cloud architects estimate TCO before clicking **Deploy**.
### 2. Deployed Resources Cost Cards
* Surfaces estimated spend breakdown per tracked cloud resource on **Operations → Deployed Resources**.
* Spot underutilized resources or over-provisioned instance sizes.
Figure 1: Jane AI Infrastructure Cost Estimation & Advisory
### 3. Ask Jane Cost Advisory
* Ask Jane for recommendations on instance right-sizing, reserved instance savings, or storage tiering optimizations.
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