# Overview

### Introduction <a href="#democratizing-finops-for-everyone-else" id="democratizing-finops-for-everyone-else"></a>

Larger cloud customers (with millions in monthly cloud spend, like Coca-Cola, Netflix) work with Cloud providers' strategic accounts teams or technical account teams for pricing estimates that smaller firms do not have access to.  They also have access to expensive Cloud consulting firms with extensive experience to help them with their technical evaluations and pricing estimates.&#x20;

Welcome to CloudRunr, your comprehensive Cloud Intelligence platform and pricing calculator. This guide will help you get started with using our tool to make transparent and objective evaluations of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

### What is CloudRunr? <a href="#how-pump-saves-money" id="how-pump-saves-money"></a>

CloudRunr is a powerful Cloud Intelligence platform that:

1. Automatically fetches monthly usage data from your cloud accounts or ingests an excel with your intended compute usage
2. Supports comparisons between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
3. Maps usage to equivalent SKUs across clouds
4. Calculates 'closest-match' cost estimates across all the three Clouds
5. Highlights service gaps and caveats between clouds

### Quick Start Guide

1. Sign up at <https://app.cloudrunr.co>
2. Connect your AWS account (we use a read-only IAM role) or download the excel template for on-premises usage
3. Review your current usage and costs
4. Explore comparisons with other cloud providers


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