See the cause. Approve the fix.Nothing runs until you say so.

MarshalCloud connects with a read-only role and reads billing and configuration metadata, not the contents of your databases or storage. Credentials are encrypted at rest and never shown back to anyone, including you.

Yes, after a person approves. Connecting is read-only; fixes use a second, separate role you install only if you want them, and each fix still waits for your approval. MarshalCloud drafts an action from a reviewed allowlist, cannot approve or run it itself, and once approved rechecks live conditions, acts, and logs the result. Each action says whether it can be undone.

From your own billing data and the provider's own pricing, never a benchmark. Anything MarshalCloud cannot price with confidence is shown as $0 at low confidence, with what would settle it.

MarshalCloud is AWS-first, with the deepest cost, security, health and fix coverage there. Growth and Scaled add Google Cloud inventory and recommendations plus Kubernetes allocation, without full AWS parity yet.

Cost Explorer is AWS's own view of your bill, and it is good at showing and slicing what you spent. MarshalCloud reads the same bill and takes the next steps for you: it links a jump to the change and the resource behind it, prices each saving from your own billing data, puts cost beside security and uptime in one place, and drafts the fix, which waits for your approval.

A general assistant answers from whatever it is given, and it can sound sure when it is guessing. MarshalCloud's analyst reads your real cost, security and uptime records, every figure traces to your bill or your cloud provider, anything it cannot check is shown as unknown, and it can only propose a fix. It cannot approve or run one.

UptimeRobot is a solid uptime and SSL checker. MarshalCloud runs the same kind of outside checks and keeps going: incidents, on-call, status pages and SLA reports in the same place, with the outage set beside the change and the cost behind it, so the person on call sees why, not only that something is down.

Tools like nOps are built cost-first, and if your bill is your only problem they are a reasonable choice. MarshalCloud is for a small team that owns cost, security and uptime at once: one read-only connection, one queue of fixes that wait for approval, and one investigation across all three, instead of three tools that do not talk to each other.

One read-only connection instead of several, one place to answer "what changed and what did it cost", and one approval step before anything in your cloud changes. Savings are priced from your own bill, unknowns are shown as unknown, and the free bill scan shows what it finds before you connect anything.

No separate FinOps, security and SRE specialists, but a technical owner should still review cloud access and approve consequential actions. MarshalCloud turns evidence into a decision a person can make.