Your AWS bill should never surprise you again.
Theliv continuously watches your cloud, catches waste and cost spikes the moment they appear, explains every change, recommends the highest-impact fix, and proves every dollar you save.
▸ AI: A misconfigured Auto Scaling group launched 40 m5.2xlarge instances in us-east-1.
Your cloud costs aren't static. They change every hour.
Deployments, autoscaling, new infrastructure, traffic spikes, a single config change — every one of them moves your AWS spend. You don't need another dashboard to check. You need continuous visibility.
- +$1,840/dayEC2 — us-east-1autoscaling group scaled out
- +$96/dayLambda — us-east-1retry loop after a deploy
- +$420/dayS3 — us-west-2new hourly export job
- +$210/dayRDS — eu-west-1instance class changed
Which of these did you know about before the bill? Theliv catches all of them.
Every deploy can quietly change your bill.
A new service, an autoscaling event, a config tweak — spend moves the moment your infrastructure does. A monthly review never catches it in time.
Spikes happen overnight. You find out on billing day.
A runaway job at 2am compounds for 30 days before anyone looks at the invoice. By then it's thousands — and it's already spent.
A dashboard you have to remember to check isn't protection.
You don't need another tab to open. You need something watching continuously, so the surprise is caught long before it reaches the invoice.
Cloud waste isn't a one-time problem.
A single cleanup feels good for a week. Then you deploy again. Waste is generated continuously — so it has to be watched continuously.
Every deployment can create new waste
A forgotten volume, an oversized instance, a resource left running — each ship can quietly add to the bill.
Every scaling event changes costs
Autoscaling reacts to traffic in minutes. Your spend moves with it, long before month-end.
Every engineer can raise spend without knowing
No one means to leave money running. But without eyes on it, small changes compound across a whole team.
Your cloud changes every day
A one-time cleanup is out of date the next time you deploy. Optimization isn't a project — it's a state.
Your cloud changes every day. Theliv watches it every minute.
A loop that never stops running.
This isn't a one-time scan. It's a continuous cycle — the day you connect, and every day after.
Discover
Theliv watches every account and service around the clock, catching waste and cost spikes the moment they appear.
Explain
Every important change comes with a plain-English root cause — what moved, where, and why. No console spelunking.
Recommend
You get the highest-impact fix, costed with estimated savings, risk, and effort — plus a copy-paste artifact.
Verify
When the fix lands, the saving is reconciled against live AWS state and written to your Verified Dollars Saved ledger.
Protect
Then it starts over — every deploy, every day. Forecasts and budget guardrails keep the next surprise from ever arriving.
🚨 Spike detected on Amazon EC2 — +$1,840/day (+312% vs 7-day avg)
Likely cause: an Auto Scaling group in us-east-1 launched 40 m5.2xlarge instances. Cap the group's max size or revert the launch template.
The value shows up every day of the week.
Theliv isn't something you run once and forget. Here's what a week of always-on protection looks like.
- Mon
Catches an unusual ECS spend jump
Statistical detection flags a spike the moment it clears your account's own baseline.
- Tue
Surfaces idle EC2 and unattached storage
The waste scanner finds resources quietly costing money, each with a dollar figure attached.
- Wed
Alerts a sudden Lambda cost increase
A retry loop after a deploy — explained in plain English, with the fix, in Slack.
- Thu
Forecasts end-of-month budget risk
Run-rate projection warns you'll breach budget while there's still time to act.
- Fri
Verifies the savings you captured
Tuesday's fix is reconciled against live AWS state and written to your ledger.
- Sat
Posts the weekly savings summary
A clean recap of spend, changes, and dollars saved lands in your channel.
- Sun
Sends the executive report
Spend trend, forecast, and Verified Dollars Saved — for whoever signs the checks.
An illustration of an ordinary week — every item above is a capability Theliv runs today.
We don't estimate savings. We prove them.
Anyone can show you a chart trending down. Theliv only counts a dollar as saved once the wasteful resource is provably gone from a later scan — or an engineer clicks “I did this.” The result is a ledger you can hand to your CFO without a caveat.
Illustrative of how the ledger works. Your numbers come from your own account.
Everything it watches, so your team doesn't have to.
Built for the team spending $10K–$150K/month on AWS with nobody whose full-time job is watching it. Every capability ladders up to one thing: confidence that spend is under control.
Waste Scanner
Finds idle EC2, unattached EBS, orphaned EIPs, and gp2→gp3 upgrades with a $ figure attached to each.
Verified Dollars Saved
We only count a saving once the flagged resource is provably gone — a cumulative, defensible ROI number, not an estimate.
Per-Account Spike Detection
Statistical thresholds tuned to each account's own variance, not a one-size-fits-all rule that trains you to ignore alerts.
AI-Costed Fixes
Claude Haiku doesn't just explain a spike — it hands you the estimated savings, risk, effort, and a copy-pasteable fix.
Slack + Exec Reports
Engineers get it in Slack in minutes; the check-signer gets a monthly email with the savings number that matters for renewal.
Budget Forecasting
Run-rate projections flag a month-end budget breach before it happens, not after the invoice arrives.
Theliv isn't another dashboard.
It's another member of your team.
You don't install it once and move on. It never sleeps, never stops watching, and never stops protecting your AWS bill — so cost control becomes something your team simply has, not something they chase.
Every account and service, around the clock — no tab to remember to open.
Every important cost change in plain English, the moment it matters.
Forecasts and budget guardrails catch the surprise before the invoice does.
Every dollar saved is reconciled and logged, so the ROI is never in doubt.
Questions a careful engineer asks first
Is it safe to connect my AWS account?
Yes. You deploy a read-only IAM role via CloudFormation, scoped to billing and describe/read APIs only. Theliv never stores long-term credentials — it assumes the role at runtime via STS, and every request is validated against a unique external ID to prevent confused-deputy access.
Will Theliv change anything in my infrastructure?
Never. Theliv is read-only by design and by promise. It recommends fixes and hands you a copy-paste artifact, but you run the change. Nothing we generate mutates your AWS account automatically.
How do you actually prove a saving?
A finding only becomes a Verified Dollar Saved when the wasteful resource is provably gone from a later scan, or an engineer clicks “I did this.” We reconcile against live AWS state and would rather under-count than inflate. That's the ledger you can show finance.
What if you don't find enough to justify the cost?
Then you'll know within days and can cancel — no lock-in. Theliv is priced to be a rounding error against the waste it finds. If it isn't finding waste worth more than the subscription, it isn't doing its job.
How long does setup take?
About five minutes: deploy one CloudFormation template, verify the role, and the first scan runs. Connect Slack and alerts land where your team already works.
Who is Theliv built for?
Seed-to-Series-B teams spending roughly $10K–$150K/month on AWS, with 5–100 engineers and no dedicated FinOps hire — where the CTO owns cloud cost and a surprise bill threatens runway.
Built to be the safest thing you connect to AWS.
Read-only, always
Theliv can look but never touch. The IAM role grants describe/read and billing scopes only — no mutation, by design.
No stored credentials
We never hold long-term AWS keys. Access is a runtime STS AssumeRole, gated by a unique external ID per account.
Encrypted secrets
Slack webhooks and sensitive config are AES-256 encrypted at rest. Service-role keys never reach the browser.
Tenant isolation
Every table is row-level-security scoped to your organization, with role-based access for your team.
On the enterprise roadmap: SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, and immutable audit logs. Talk to us if these gate your rollout — design partners help set the priority.
Never be surprised by an AWS bill again.
Start protecting my AWSFive-minute setup, read-only access. Theliv starts watching every account the moment you connect — and never stops.