AWS is putting me out of a job again with a new tool you should know about.

A few days ago AWS Announced its new FinOps focused MCP and I was delighted to hear about it.

It combines a handful of AWS cost related services that release some really interesting tools for your personal AI agent of choice.

Want to know why your ECS costs jumped up over the last 60 days? No problem.

Want an infographic rendered telling you your spend in a novel way? Done.

Want to know what savings plans would be optimal for your infrastructure? It can recommend that, though I am skeptical about how accurate that one will be.

They just released this so I have not had time to go hands on with it but I am clearing out my schedule to go hands on with this one. I might even do a video on it.

I will say they made some interesting design choices. I am puzzled why the HTTP Streamable MCP standard is so slow to be adopted. All this installing stuff seems prehistoric in comparison.

Also I am curious if they will give their Q chat widget access to this or some variation on it. I can see why if you were using a different agent then Q to run your business, giving it access to this MCP server could add a lot of value. Not everyone is going to be on the Q band wagon. Gemini and OpenAI will get some adoption if they can get out of their own way and open up full MCP integrations.

Am I afraid?

On the contrary, I am excited. This could save me a ton of time gathering information for my clients which will allow me to focus on fixing the problems, not just finding them.

Knowing the costs is only a small fraction of the battle. Actually fixing the cost issues this tool finds is what really matters.

What use is the data this MCP provides without the ability to take action on it?

With that said I am sure LLMs will be provisioning infrastructure soon enough. When that day comes I will just need to evolve. In the meantime I will be using tools like these to help my clients add extra zeros to their valuations.