Usage AI Autopilot

How It Works

When you enable Autopilot, Usage AI’s engine continuously monitors your cloud usage across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Every 24 hours, the system identifies where additional Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, or Committed Use Discounts can reduce your bill, then purchases and adjusts those commitments automatically. You do not need to review or approve each action. All commitments are owned by Usage AI, not your organization, so you carry no financial exposure if your usage shifts. Setup requires only billing-layer access and takes approximately 30 minutes with no infrastructure changes. See how Usage AI works.

Why It Matters for Cloud Cost

Most engineering and finance teams lack the bandwidth to monitor commitment coverage daily. Cloud usage changes constantly, and commitments that were right last week may leave money on the table this week. Without continuous, automated management, coverage gaps accumulate and on-demand spend creeps back up. Autopilot closes those gaps as they open, keeping savings optimized without requiring ongoing human input. Teams that manage commitments manually or on a quarterly review cycle regularly miss savings windows that a daily cadence would capture.

Key Characteristics

• Autopilot purchases and adjusts commitments daily without requiring human approval at each step.
• Coverage spans AWS, GCP, and Azure from a single platform, with no infrastructure changes required.
• All commitments are owned by Usage AI, so your organization carries zero upfront cost or financial risk from underutilization.
• Cashback plus credits are guaranteed on any underutilization, meaning you are protected even when usage patterns shift unexpectedly.

How Usage AI Handles This

Autopilot is a native operating mode within the Usage AI platform, sitting alongside CoPilot for teams that prefer to review recommendations before execution. Customers such as Motive, EVGo (NASDAQ: EVGO), and Blank Street Coffee use Usage AI to manage cloud commitments across their full environment, saving 30 to 50% on AWS, GCP, and Azure spend.

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

Common Questions

1. Does Autopilot make purchases without any notification?

Autopilot executes commitment purchases and adjustments automatically, but the Usage AI platform logs all actions and provides reporting through its ClearCost visibility layer. You retain full visibility into what was purchased and when. Slack and email support are included if you want to be notified of activity.

2. What happens if my cloud usage drops after Autopilot buys commitments?

Usage AI owns the commitments, not your organization. If usage falls below a commitment level, Usage AI’s guaranteed cashback plus credits policy covers the underutilization. You are not left holding an unused commitment you cannot exit.

3. Can I switch from Autopilot to a manual approval mode?

Yes. Usage AI offers CoPilot as a recommendation mode where projected savings are surfaced for your review before any purchase is executed. You can move between modes based on how much control your team wants at any given time.