Today, Vantage is introducing its FinOps Agent: a first-of-its-kind, interactive AI agent that understands your cloud infrastructure and automates cost savings on your behalf. Once integrated via Slack, users can converse with the Vantage FinOps Agent to answer questions about their cloud infrastructure spend and usage, automate analysis, and create artifacts, such as Cost Reports, in their Vantage account. The FinOps Agent also proactively seeks out savings opportunities across your connected infrastructure accounts, alerts you to optimization opportunities, and is capable of remediating them on your behalf, with optional approval.

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Introduction to the Vantage FinOps Agent and a walkthrough of its capablities and workflows

Historically, Vantage customers have interfaced with their cloud costs through familiar channels: the Vantage console for visualization and analysis, APIs and Terraform for programmatic access, and recently, the Vantage MCP and Vantage Docs MCP for AI-enabled workflows. While powerful, these approaches share a fundamental limitation: they all require a human to reason and take action. FinOps teams must manually analyze recommendations and coordinate with engineering to implement changes, often resulting in delayed savings, missed opportunities, and recommendation fatigue. Static alert systems require upfront configuration and inevitably miss edge cases. LLM clients and MCPs have greatly accelerated analysis, but do not provide proactive monitoring on users’ behalf. The FinOps ecosystem has been waiting for capabilities other domains already have: truly autonomous agents that can observe, learn, and act.

Now, customers can activate the Vantage FinOps Agent to accelerate their FinOps teams, automate actions on their cloud costs, and increase their reach and impact without requiring significant human effort. The Vantage FinOps Agent integrates directly into Slack, where it serves as an always-available teammate for FinOps practitioners, engineers, and finance teams alike. Users can get started using the FinOps Agent in under 5 minutes, through a simple onboarding wizard that verifies the necessary technical permissions with your cloud providers and updates your Slack integration to enable the Vantage FinOps Agent. Once complete, the Agent becomes an active participant in your workflow, answering questions in natural language, generating Cost Reports on demand, and most importantly, identifying savings opportunities and guiding you through the approval process to implement them.

The FinOps Agent is now generally available to customers to execute commitment-based purchases based on natural language guidance of target coverage for AWS Compute Savings Plans, as well as AWS Reserved Instances for RDS, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and Redshift (e.g., "Lower the proposed commitment to half the number of hours."). In the future, the FinOps Agent will be able to make direct infrastructure changes in your cloud environment (e.g., delete unattached storage volumes, change storage tiers of S3 buckets), or open pull requests to GitHub to make changes to Infrastructure as Code (e.g., update the generation of a deployed instance). To build trust in using agentic workflows, Vantage has also added customer-specific controls to ensure proper guardrails exist for the Agent, such as opting in by recommendation, indicating whether you want full autonomy or human-in-the-loop approval, specific roles that can approve actions, and aligned RBAC to Vantage users when having conversations with the Agent. Once an action is approved, the FinOps Agent will grant itself temporary technical permissions for completing the action, take the action, and report back to you with the outcome, as well as posting an event to the Vantage Audit Log.

Paying customers can enable the FinOps Agent through the Onboarding Wizard in the new Recommendations page. To learn more, visit the Vantage FinOps Agent feature page and product documentation. Customers are charged 5% of the savings from Financial Commitments purchased by the FinOps Agent. Pricing for infrastructure changes will be announced in the future. Customers can have unlimited conversations with the FinOps Agent until February 1, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

Vantage is launching the FinOps Agent: an AI-powered tool that automates cloud cost remediation by proactively identifying savings opportunities and taking action on your behalf. The Agent integrates directly into Slack, allowing teams to converse about cloud costs, approve recommendations, and automate tasks like managing AWS Financial Commitments (Savings Plans and Reserved Instances). Unlike traditional tools that require constant human intervention, the FinOps Agent can autonomously execute approved optimizations, log all actions for transparency, and report back on achieved savings.

2. Who is the customer?

Any paying Vantage customer who receives recommendations can now choose to let Vantage take action automatically. This is particularly useful for FinOps practitioners, engineering managers, and platform teams managing large, dynamic environments. For Vantage MSP customers, see question 41 for more information about how the Agent interacts across your accounts.

3. How much does this cost?

Charges for the FinOps Agent are based on the savings it achieves in customers’ environments. For Financial Commitments, customers are charged 5% of the savings of the commitment, similar to Vantage Autopilot. Pricing for automation on infrastructure changes will be announced in a future release.

Additionally, you are charged based on token consumption for conversations with the FinOps Agent through natural language. Tokens will be charged at a rate of $2.50 per million tokens per month (~60 messages). Vantage will waive all costs associated with token consumption through February 1, 2026.

Beginning February 1, 2026, total costs accumulated and tokens consumed will be available in the Billing page and will be billed monthly, either via credit card or AWS Marketplace. To learn more about pricing examples, head to the new portion of the pricing page.

4. How do I enable the FinOps Agent?

There is a new section in the console where Owners can enable the FinOps Agent. Within the refreshed “Recommendations” tab, you will now see a prompt to enable the Agent, which will take you through an onboarding wizard for getting the Agent enabled. This is also accessible from the Agent Settings page.

The requirements for enabling the FinOps Agent are:

• Updating the necessary technical permissions in providers you wish to have actions taken autonomously
• Choosing an approval flow of Autonomous or Owner Approval Required
• Updating (or installing) the Vantage Slack Application to the latest version
• Defining the destination channel to send remediation approvals
• Ensuring you have a payment method in place for charges related to cost remediation and token consumption (either a credit card saved within Vantage or be on a metered agreement through AWS Marketplace)

5. How does the FinOps Agent work?

The FinOps Agent works by integrating directly into Slack, where it serves as an interactive interface for your team to communicate with the Agent using natural language. Through Slack, you can leverage the Agent's connections to multiple systems: the Vantage MCP for accessing your cloud cost data, the Vantage Docs MCP for product documentation, and underlying LLMs that power the conversational experience. Beyond answering questions and generating insights, the Agent proactively identifies cost-saving opportunities and alerts you when actions can be taken. When the Agent identifies a recommendation, it will check the approval flow for the action. If recommendations require approval, an outbound message will be sent to the designated Slack channel prompting users to:

• Approve a one-time remediation
• Ignore the recommendation for the specific resource indicated
• Adjust the recommendation based on natural language

Within the Slack thread, you can converse with the Agent to receive additional context about your cloud spend, such as your existing Savings Plans hours or On Demand Instance counts for specific RDS configurations, and ask the Agent to update its recommendation accordingly. Once a recommendation is approved, the Agent will temporarily assume the required permissions, perform the action, and then release itself from the assumed role. All actions are logged, reversible when possible, and notifications are sent to ensure transparency.

6. What questions can I ask the FinOps Agent?

The FinOps Agent is connected to both the Vantage MCP and the Vantage Docs MCP, which allows it to answer any questions related to your cloud costs, create Cost Reports for you in Vantage, answer questions on how to use Vantage, generate VQL and Terraform code, and more. For reference on best practices for how to have conversations with the FinOps Agent, see our Prompt Guide.

7. Why am I required to connect Slack?

The FinOps Agent is designed to work where your team already collaborates. Slack is the most common communication platform for Vantage customers, making it the ideal interface for proactive, targeted cost optimization actions. We believe the best way to drive action is to send recommendations directly to a channel where your team can inspect and approve them, and the Agent will report back with its progress.

8. Can I use any other communication method other than Slack?

Not at this time; however, in the future, we will expand the capabilities of the FinOps Agent to integrate into other approval workflows, such as Microsoft Teams, and via the Vantage console.

9. I have a Slack connection with Vantage. How do I add the FinOps Agent to a Slack channel for my organization to interact with?

During onboarding of the FinOps Agent, you will be required to select at least one Slack channel to invite the Agent to. Not only will you then be able to communicate with the Agent in this channel, but you will also have proactive recommendation notifications sent here as well. You can invite the Slack Agent to any channels for conversing using the /invite @Vantage command.

10. How many Slack channels can I add the Vantage FinOps Agent to?

Once integrated, you can add the Vantage FinOps Agent to as many channels as you like. Your cost recommendations will always be sent to the channel designated for approvals.

11. What permissions are required in Slack in order to install the updated Vantage Application?

This is dependent on organization. As the application is currently under Marketplace review from Slack, this may require elevated permissions, such as Workspace Owner, in order to install. Check with your Slack Admin if you encounter any permission errors installing the Vantage app.

12. The Slack app is currently not an approved application in the Slack Marketplace, why is that?

Vantage is currently in contact with Slack to have the application approved for downloading through the Slack Marketplace.

13. My organization requires Workspace Owners to install Slack Apps that are not listed in the Marketplace. Do they need to be a Vantage user in order to install the app?

Yes, the OAuth URL for installing the app is created through the Vantage console, so any user that is looking to install the Vantage Slack App will need to do this through the Vantage Console until it is approved in the Slack Marketplace.

14. What does a message look like when the FinOps Agent finds a savings opportunity?

Below is a sample message for the Agent finding a recommendation for RDS Reserved Instances:

💰 New RDS RI Recommendation
Based on your recent usage, I found that your account could save by purchasing RDS Reserved Instances.

Instance Family: db.r6g.large
Location: us-east-1
Configuration: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Number of Instances: 150
Purchase Option: 1 year, No Upfront
Upfront Cost: $0.00
Estimated Savings: $10,402.50 per month

Approve
Ignore

The Agent curates messages for each recommendation type it detects, and will provide multiple options for approval if appropriate.

15. Can I change the Slack channel that my recommendations are sent to after I integrate the FinOps Agent?

Yes, you will be able to change the location where recommendations are sent at any time through the FinOps Agent Settings page in the Vantage console.

16. Can I interact with the Agent in Direct Messages as opposed to in channels?

At this time, the Vantage FinOps Agent can only be messaged in channels. Support for direct messaging will be available in the future as a fast follow launch.

17. What technically happens when I approve an action for the FinOps Agent to take?

When the FinOps Agent proceeds to take an action (either after approval or autonomously), it follows these steps:

1. The Agent posts a message in the Slack channel where recommendations are directed, outlining its action plan. An explicit click is required to initiate the action.
2. The Agent executes the action in your cloud environment.
3. An entry is logged to the Vantage Audit Log for full transparency and traceability.
4. The Agent reports back in the Slack thread with a summary of what was completed and the estimated savings achieved.

18. What happens if an automated action causes an issue?

Customers can opt to disable automated actions at any time. Many optimizations (like rightsizing or Savings Plans) will be reversible within specified periods, while some purchases (i.e. RIs) are permanent. Audit logs provide traceability for governance.

Certain meaningful actions will also be queued for later in the day vs instantaneously to allow a human to potentially intervene. For example, if you are making a commitment for a Savings Plan for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, it will put into place an arbitrary delay in case you decide to reverse it.

All actions are logged in the Vantage Audit Log for full transparency and traceability, allowing you to review what was changed and when.

19. Which providers does the FinOps Agent support cost remediations for?

At launch, the FinOps Agent only supports cost remediation for AWS. Future provider support is planned for Azure, GCP, Datadog, and more. When asking the Agent questions in natural language, it supports responses on any data you have in Vantage.

20. What data is available within Vantage Audit Logs for me to view what actions have been taken?

Within the Vantage Audit Logs, you will be able to see the following:

• Time the recommendation was provided
• Time the recommendation was approved
• Vantage User that approved the remediation
• What Resources were altered as a part of the recommendation remediation
• Time the action was taken in the cloud provider

21. How can I view the actions taken by the FinOps Agent in my cloud environment?

You can view all actions taken by the FinOps Agent in AWS CloudTrail by filtering for events initiated by the IAM role that the FinOps Agent assumed. This allows you to see exactly what changes were made, when they occurred, and which role was used to execute them.

22. How does the FinOps Agent authenticate users?

The FinOps Agent will perform a lookup of the email of the Slack user with the list of authenticated Vantage users. The email of your Slack user must match the email of your Vantage user in order for this authentication to be successful. If this is not the case, please reach out to support@vantage.sh for assistance.

23. Do I need to be a registered Vantage user in order to ask questions to the FinOps Agent?

Yes, in order to use the FinOps Agent, you must be a registered user in Vantage.

24. Does RBAC from my Vantage user apply to questions asked to the FinOps Agent?

Yes, Vantage will match the roles and permissions of your Vantage user when communicating with the FinOps Agent.

25. Who is allowed to approve FinOps Agent interactions?

Only Vantage account Owners are allowed to approve actions.

26. If I opt in to the FinOps Agent, is my data used to train any models?

No. Your data will not be used to train models and the Agent only uses data fetched directly from your account via Vantage's APIs. All enhancements to the model will be done as prompt engineering from Vantage engineering teams to address feedback from customers and provide more guided answers.

27. What Vantage tier do I need to be able to use the FinOps Agent?

You must be a paying Vantage customer. The Agent is not available to the free tier.

28. What is required in order to pay for my remediated cost recommendations and token consumption?

You must either have a credit card on file or be subscribed to a metered marketplace subscription through the cloud vendor you purchase Vantage.

29. What permissions does the Vantage Slack application have?

The new Vantage Slack app will request the following permissions in order to perform its functions:

• Content and info about channels & conversations
  • View messages and other content in direct and group direct messages that "Vantage" has been added to
  • View basic information about public channels in your workspace
  • View basic information about private channels that "Vantage" has been added to
• Content and info about your workspace
  • View people in your workspace
  • View email addresses of people in your workspace
• Perform actions in channels & conversations
  • View messages that directly mention @vantage in conversations that the app is in
  • Join public channels in your workspace
  • Send messages as @vantage
  • Start direct messages with people
• Perform actions in your workspace
  • Allow "Vantage" to act as your App Agent
  • Add shortcuts and/or slash commands that people can use

30. Can the FinOps Agent consume or create files such as images, CSVs, or other documents?

No, not at this time. The Agent can only converse in text, as well as through Slack Blocks, to create assets such as tables. We hope to add this functionality in the future.

31. Can I ask the FinOps Agent questions that are not related to Vantage?

The FinOps Agent has guardrails in place to only answer questions pertinent to use of Vantage and the data within your Vantage account.

32. Can I customize which types of recommendations the FinOps Agent surfaces or automates?

Yes, once the FinOps Agent is configured, you will have access to an Agent Settings page, where you will be able to opt in and out of all offered recommendations.

33. How does the FinOps Agent handle multiple integrations for the same provider?

If you have multiple integrations of the same provider, the FinOps Agent will provide additional context as to which integration it is acting on.

34. What happens if I delete the Slack channel where the FinOps Agent sends notifications?

If the designated Slack channel is deleted, the FinOps Agent will no longer be able to send notifications about new recommendations or completed actions. You will also see your Slack integration in an Error state within the Vantage console. You'll need to reconfigure the FinOps Agent’s Slack integration and designate a new channel through the Vantage console to resume receiving notifications.

35. Can the FinOps Agent help me understand why a particular recommendation was made?

Yes, you can tag the FinOps Agent in Slack and ask for details about any recommendation. The FinOps Agent will provide context about the usage patterns, historical data, and calculations that led to the recommendation. This transparency helps you make informed decisions about which optimizations to approve.

36. What if I want to pause the FinOps Agent's recommendations temporarily?

You can pause the FinOps Agent's automated actions and recommendation notifications at any time through the Vantage console by turning off a particular recommendation, or all recommendations at once. This might be useful during periods of significant infrastructure changes, migrations, or organizational transitions. You can resume the FinOps Agent whenever you're ready.

37. Does the FinOps Agent consider my existing commitments when making new recommendations?

Yes. The FinOps Agent is fully aware of your existing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans commitments. All recommendations are calculated based on your uncovered usage after applying existing commitments, ensuring you don't over-commit or duplicate coverage.

38. How does my experience change if I am an existing Autopilot customer?

Autopilot will continue to function as normal, but if you are currently set to "requires approval" and you integrate the Agent into your Slack, you will begin to get the notifications via Slack as well.

The configuration settings for Autopilot have moved to the Agent section of the settings page and the graphs for AWS Compute and the additional RI services will remain unchanged. In addition to this the navigation link for Autopilot has moved under the Recommendations navigation header.

39. How can I provide feedback on my experience using the Agent?

You can leave feedback about your experience using the Agent or Vantage in general by telling the Agent that you have feedback to share. This will prompt the feedback tool from the Vantage MCP, and have your message sent directly to the Vantage team for review.

40. I am currently on a free trial of Vantage, will I have access to the FinOps Agent?

You will be able to utilize the FinOps Agent within Slack for answering questions about your costs and Vantage in natural language, but will not be able to perform automated remediation.

41. I am a Vantage MSP customer, how does the Agent work for me?

The Vantage FinOps Agent only has access to the account your Vantage user directly has access to, meaning that you can access your MSP Management account but not any child Managed accounts. For automating recommendations, the same applies to only remediating those in your Management account. Functionality for accessing data and remediating recommendations in child accounts will be available in the future.

42. What technologies back the Agent?

The FinOps Agent is powered by OpenAI and Cloudflare, providing the AI capabilities and infrastructure needed for natural language processing and cloud cost optimization.