Stop getting surprised by your AWS bill.

See what your AWS resources
actually cost.

No dashboards. No tab switching. Just the cost — right where decisions happen.

💼 Built by an AWS Technical Account Manager. I got tired of surprise bills.
Install free — see your AWS costs in seconds See how it works
S3
EC2
Lambda
RDS
us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home
Amazon S3 › Buckets
$1.97 S3 this month · ↓ click
Buckets (12)
General purpose buckets · All AWS Regions
$32B
Cloud waste per year from forgotten and idle resources
// Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud
8M+
Active AWS developers — all working cost-blind in the Console
// AWS re:Invent 2023
$0
Cost to install and see your first resource cost today
// getcloudlens.com
<1 min
From install to seeing your first live AWS cost badge
// Average setup time

The difference

Every other tool makes you
go find the cost.
CloudLens brings it to you.

Other tools make you leave your workflow — open Cost Explorer, run a report, filter by service, then mentally map it back to the resource you were just looking at.

CloudLens puts the cost on the resource page itself. Where the decision happens.

Without CloudLens
Open EC2 → wonder what it costs → open new tab → go to Cost Explorer → run a report → filter by service → still not sure which instance
With CloudLens
Open EC2 → see $0.28 EC2 this month → click for AI breakdown → done
"Wait… how does AWS not already have this built in?"

Why this matters

Cost blindness isn't
carelessness.
It's a missing feature.

Every one of these engineers knew AWS costs money. They just had no idea what that specific resource was costing while they were looking right at it. That's the gap CloudLens closes.

// Real bills. Preventable pattern.
EC2 instance left running after testing
31 days · t3.large · no cost visible in Console
$847
RDS database after a 3-day hackathon
Nobody deleted it · 3 weeks running
$1,200
NAT Gateway on a dev VPC
Supposed to be torn down after demo
$2,100
Lambda running every minute vs every hour
43,200 invocations/month · 6 weeks unnoticed
$480
// Each one visible in under 1 second with CloudLens installed.

How it works

Three steps. Done.

No new dashboards. No training. Browse AWS as normal.

01

Install in 30 seconds

Add from the Chrome Web Store. Create a read-only IAM user with Cost Explorer access — four permissions, five minutes. We walk you through every step.

02

Browse the Console as normal

A cost badge automatically appears on every supported service page. EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda — wherever you navigate, the cost follows.

03

Click for AI insight

Click any badge for a plain-English explanation — what's driving the cost, whether it's normal, and one concrete action if something looks off.

Features

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

💰

Inline cost badges

Month-to-date cost for the service you're viewing, in the page header. No switching. No dashboards. Just the number.

Free
🤖

AI-powered summaries

Click any badge for a plain-English explanation — what's driving costs, whether it looks normal, and one concrete action to consider.

Pro
📬

Weekly digest

Every Monday, a Chrome notification summarises your AWS bill — what changed, what's costing the most, whether you're on track.

Pro
🔒

Credentials stay local

Your IAM key is stored in Chrome's encrypted local storage — sent only to AWS's own Cost Explorer API, never to CloudLens servers.

Free

Supported services

Works where you work

🖥️
EC2
Compute
🪣
S3
Storage
🗄️
RDS
Databases
λ
Lambda
Serverless
📊
DynamoDB
NoSQL
🐳
ECS
Containers
🌐
CloudFront
CDN
💾
EBS
Block storage

Pricing

Simple. Honest.

Free forever for the core features. Pro unlocks AI summaries and the weekly digest.

Free
$0
forever
  • Cost badges on all 8 services
  • Account summary popup
  • Service cost breakdown
  • AI tooltip summaries
  • Weekly digest notification
Start for free

Security & privacy

Your data never leaves your browser

🔐 Credentials encrypted locally

Your AWS IAM key is stored in Chrome's encrypted storage and sent directly to AWS — never through CloudLens servers.

📖 Read-only IAM only

Four Cost Explorer permissions. Read-only. CloudLens cannot create, modify, or delete any AWS resource in your account.

🚫 Zero data collection

CloudLens does not collect, store, or transmit your cost data, account ID, or any personally identifiable information.

Built by an AWS TAM. Free to install.

Know costs
before the bill arrives.

See your first resource cost in under a minute.

"Why doesn't AWS already have this built in?"

Start seeing costs — it's free

Chrome 88+ · AWS account · read-only IAM user · free forever