MigraCost – Cloud bill X-ray for small teams

Shows small teams which cloud line items are burning cash and what to change first

Problem

A developer posted his monthly Aliyun bill where cloud data transfer alone took nearly half the cost, followed by NAT gateway and RDS. His first instinct was to ask a sales rep for a discount, not to know which config to change. Bill consoles bury the signal across many pages and metrics, and small teams rarely have a dedicated FinOps person, so optimization becomes guesswork.

Solution

Users import a cloud bill CSV or screenshot, and the tool breaks costs down by service, region, and traffic direction, flags abnormal growth, and suggests concrete fixes such as CDN origin strategies, internal traffic paths, NAT gateway scaling, and reserved vs on-demand comparisons. The deliverable is a one-page report that answers 'what did I overspend on and what do I do next'.

Users

Small teams, indie developers, and overseas-facing startups without a dedicated cloud cost engineer

MVP

Import and parse an Aliyun bill CSV; auto-classify by service, region, and direction with month-over-month flags; ship 20–30 common traffic-cost optimization templates; export a shareable one-page PDF/web report

Revenue

Monthly report subscription ($5–15/mo); first basic report free, full optimization checklist and export paid; later add cloud vendor affiliate referrals

Why now

AI and container workloads are exploding egress traffic, while small teams still don't know how CDN, internal, and public egress are billed. Enterprise FinOps tools are overkill and enterprise-priced, leaving a gap for a lightweight bill checker built by one person