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The basics

Ask IRIS

An AI-powered chat assistant with full context of your AWS infrastructure and costs. Essentially a FinOps engineer on call.

Go to Ask IRIS in the sidebar to start a conversation.

Getting started

Ask IRIS connects to your AWS account data automatically when the chat loads. You'll see the status show Connected once the session is ready. If no AI provider key is configured, go to Settings → AI Providers to connect OpenAI or Anthropic first.

The conversation persists within your browser session so you can navigate away and return without losing context. Starting a new conversation clears the session.

What you can ask

Ask IRIS anything about your cloud costs and infrastructure in plain English. A few starter prompts:

“What is my highest-cost AWS service this month?”
“Which resources have seen the biggest cost increase recently?”
“Are there any anomalies or unexpected spikes in my spend?”
“Summarise cost trends across all my accounts.”

You can go deeper from there — ask follow-up questions, drill into specific services, ask for recommendations, or ask IRIS to explain why a cost has changed.

Resource deep dives

The most powerful way to use Ask IRIS is directly from a specific resource. This gives IRIS full context about that resource — its configuration, cost, instance type, region, creation date, and any rightsizing hints — before the conversation even starts.

Two ways to trigger a resource deep dive

  • From the Resources page — click any resource to open the detail panel, then click Ask IRIS at the bottom of the panel. IRIS opens a new chat session pre-loaded with the resource's full metadata and automatically asks it to analyse the resource and flag any issues.
  • From the Resource detail page — click Full details → on any resource panel to open the full resource detail page, then click Ask IRIS in the top right. Same behaviour — a new session opens with full resource context already attached.

In both cases the chat title shows the resource name so you always know which resource you're analysing.

Rate limiting

If you send messages too quickly you'll see a rate limit message. Wait a moment and try again.