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CoPilot (Usage AI)

CoPilot is Usage AI’s recommendation mode, which surfaces projected cloud commitment savings for customer review and approval before any purchase is executed.

How It Works

CoPilot sits inside the Usage AI platform as the human-in-the-loop operating mode. Usage AI’s engine continuously monitors your real-time cloud usage across AWS, GCP, and Azure, then generates AI-powered recommendations for Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Committed Use Discounts. Each recommendation includes the projected annual saving, the instance type, region, and commitment size. Your team reviews those recommendations on the dashboard, then approves with a single click. No commitment is purchased without your explicit consent.

This contrasts with AUTOPILOT MODE, where Usage AI purchases and adjusts commitments daily without requiring human approval. CoPilot gives teams that want visibility and sign-off authority the same AI-driven analysis, just with a manual approval gate before execution. See how Usage AI works.

Why It Matters for Cloud Cost

Cloud commitment purchases lock in spend, sometimes for a year. Finance and engineering teams that need internal approval workflows, audit trails, or budget sign-off before committing can use CoPilot to stay in full control while still benefiting from Usage AI’s optimization engine. Without a structured review step, organizations either delay commitments entirely (and pay on-demand rates) or push through approvals without sufficient data. CoPilot resolves both problems by presenting the projected savings impact before any money moves.

Key Characteristics

  • CoPilot surfaces AI-generated recommendations across AWS, GCP, and Azure in a single unified dashboard.
  • No commitment is purchased or modified until the customer explicitly approves it.
  • Recommendations include projected annual savings, coverage impact, and instance-level detail to support internal review.
  • Guaranteed Buyback protection applies to all commitments approved through CoPilot, covering any underutilization with cashback and credits.

How Usage AI Handles This

CoPilot is a native operating mode inside the Usage AI platform, available alongside Autopilot. Customers can start in CoPilot to build confidence in the recommendations, then switch to once AUTOPILOT MODE they are comfortable with fully autonomous optimization.

See how Usage AI saves 30 to 50% on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Common Questions

1. Is CoPilot available for AWS, GCP, and Azure?

Yes. CoPilot surfaces recommendations across all three major cloud providers inside the same dashboard. On AWS this covers Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, on Azure it covers Reservations and Azure Savings Plans, and on GCP it covers Committed Use Discounts.

 

2. What happens if I approve a recommendation and my usage drops?

Usage AI’s Guaranteed Buyback covers any underutilization on commitments purchased through the platform, including those approved via CoPilot. Underutilized commitments are bought back with cashback payments and credits, so you carry no financial risk.

 

3. Can I switch from CoPilot to Autopilot later?

Yes. CoPilot and Autopilot Mode are operating modes within the same platform. You can switch between them at any time without any infrastructure changes or re-onboarding.

Related Terms

Commitment-Based Discounts

Commitment-based discounts are pricing agreements where cloud providers reduce per-unit rates in exchange for a customer's pledge to use a minimum amount of compute or database resources over a fixed term.

Commitment Lock-In Risk

Commitment Lock-In Risk is the financial exposure a company faces when it purchases cloud computing commitments that exceed actual usage, resulting in paying for capacity that goes unused.

Cloud Pricing Models

Cloud pricing models are the billing structures that AWS, GCP, and Azure use to charge for compute and database resources, ranging from pay-as-you-go rates to discounted commitment-based pricing.