📄️ Guard Overview
Guard is frugally.app's FinOps governance pillar. It helps teams manage infrastructure changes through approval workflows, enforce spending limits with budgets, attribute costs to teams, and maintain compliance through scanning and posture assessments.
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📄️ Budgets
Budgets let you set spending limits on your AWS costs and receive alerts when consumption approaches or exceeds those limits. They are a core Guard tool for preventing cost overruns.
📄️ Cost Attribution
Cost attribution assigns your AWS spending to the teams, projects, or departments responsible for it. This creates accountability and helps teams understand the cost impact of their infrastructure decisions.
📄️ Violations and Remediation
A violation is a detected breach of a budget, policy, or compliance rule. Violations surface issues that need attention and provide a structured path to resolution.
📄️ Scans and Findings
Guard Scans are periodic compliance checks that evaluate your AWS environment against configured rules. Each Scan produces Findings — specific issues that may require attention.
📄️ Cost Posture
Cost Posture is a snapshot score that represents your team's overall cost health. It combines multiple signals — waste, coverage, optimisation opportunities, and compliance — into a single metric you can track over time.
📄️ Maturity Assessment
The FinOps Maturity Assessment is a self-assessment tool that measures how mature your team's FinOps practices are across key dimensions. It produces a score, identifies gaps, and provides a guided improvement path.
📄️ Recommendations
Guard generates AI-powered recommendations to help you reduce costs, eliminate waste, and improve your cloud posture. Each recommendation includes an estimated impact so you can prioritise the highest-value actions.
📄️ Executive Dashboard
The Executive Dashboard provides a high-level view of your cloud cost management for leadership and finance stakeholders. It surfaces the metrics that matter most without requiring deep technical knowledge.
📄️ Resource History and Locks
Resource History tracks changes to your AWS resources over time. Resource Locks let you protect critical resources from automation actions. Together, they give you visibility and control over your cloud environment.