Yasu

Yasu / Yasu Lite

The “AI Cloud Engineer” for Cost Optimization

We kept hearing from customers, “We know we are leaking cloud spend, but your full platform is too powerful for our current needs—we just want to see where we are wasting money.” Fair enough. In response, the team built Yasu Lite. While the full Yasu platform acts as an autonomous “AI Engineer” that fixes problems for you, Yasu Lite is the rapid-audit version. It connects to your AWS or cloud accounts in minutes to visualize cost leaks, flag zombie resources, and identify immediate savings without the complexity of a full FinOps implementation.

Key Features

• Instant Waste Detection: Scans your cloud infrastructure to find “low hanging fruit” like idle EC2 instances, unattached EBS volumes, and unused load balancers.
• Leakage Reporting: Provides a prioritized list of specific resources that are bleeding money, rather than just a generic billing graph.
• “Lite” Interface: A stripped-down, focused dashboard designed for engineers who want answers, not complex financial charts.
• Shift-Left Intelligence: (Full Platform) Catches cost anomalies in Pull Requests before infrastructure is even deployed.

User Workflow

1. Connect: Link your cloud provider (AWS, GCP, etc.) via a read-only role.
2. Scan: Yasu Lite analyzes usage patterns and billing data to identify inefficiencies.
3. Review: Users receive a “Waste Report” highlighting the top 5 areas to cut costs immediately.

Use Cases

• Cloud Bill Auditing: For startups who received a surprisingly high AWS bill and need to find the culprit immediately.
• Startup Financial Optimization: Extending runway by cutting $500-$2,000/month of useless spend.
• Resource Hygiene: Cleaning up development environments by identifying “zombie” resources left behind by past employees.

Pros & Cons

• Pros: Extremely fast setup (<5 minutes), focused purely on actionable “waste” rather than complex accounting, actionable for engineers.
• Cons: “Lite” version requires you to fix the issues yourself (unlike the full AI Agent), less suitable for complex enterprise cost allocation tags.

Pricing

• Yasu Lite: Free (Basic waste detection and reporting).
• Pro Platform: Monthly subscription (Includes AI Agents for automated remediation and CI/CD integration).

How Does It Compare?

vs. Vantage

Vantage is a financial dashboard. It is excellent for visualizing trends (e.g., “Why is our bill up 10% month-over-month?”). Yasu Lite is a waste detector. Vantage shows you the data; Yasu Lite points a finger at the specific server you forgot to turn off.

vs. AWS Cost Explorer

The native AWS tool is free but notorious for being difficult to read. It gives you raw data and expects you to find the insights. Yasu Lite is opinionated—it filters out the noise and just shows you the “money pits,” making it much faster for non-experts to use.

vs. CloudZero

CloudZero is an enterprise tool focused on Unit Economics (e.g., “Cost per customer”). It requires significant setup and tagging strategy. Yasu is designed for immediate impact. You plug it in, find the waste, and kill it. It is less about “strategy” and more about “tactical savings.”

Final Thoughts

Yasu Lite fills a critical gap in the FinOps market. Most tools are built for Finance teams to create reports; Yasu is built for Engineering teams to fix problems. If you are afraid to open your AWS bill but don’t have the time to learn a complex new platform, Yasu Lite is the “emergency brake” you need to stop the bleeding instantly.