Your cloud VMs are costing you 24–67% more than they should.
We know because we measured it.
placemy scans your running VMs across AWS, Azure, and GCP, measures their actual CPU and memory utilisation, and shows you exactly which instances are oversized, which are in the wrong region, and which would cost less on a different provider. One command. A report you can act on today.
Runs on your machine. Your cloud data never leaves your account. Read-only — nothing is changed without your explicit approval.
Five real workloads. Savings from 24% to 67%.
These numbers are from real AWS and Azure workloads scanned during the dissertation evaluation that produced the engine running inside placemy today. We didn't round them up and we didn't cherry-pick the winners.
Five real workloads, measured savings
Range 23.9%–67.4%. Median 63.6%.
| Case | Workload | Current | Before / mo | Recommendation | After / mo | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TC-01 | Over-provisioned t3.micro (idle, 0.07% avg CPU) AWS t3.micro, eu-west-2 | AWS t3.micro eu-west-2 | $8.61 | AWS t4g.nano EU (Stockholm) | $3.14 | −63.6% |
| TC-02 | Under-provisioned B1s (22% avg, 94% peak CPU) Azure Standard_B1s, northeurope | Azure Standard_B1s northeurope | $8.25 | Azure B2pts v2 swedencentral | $6.28 | −23.9% |
| TC-03 | Idle B1s (0.4% avg CPU, 25.7% peak) Azure Standard_B1s, italynorth | Azure Standard_B1s italynorth | $8.76 | AWS t4g.nano EU (Stockholm) | $3.14 | −64.2% |
| TC-04 | Residency-constrained t3.micro (Ireland) AWS t3.micro, eu-west-1 | AWS t3.micro eu-west-1 | $8.32 | AWS t4g.micro EU (Stockholm) | $6.28 | −24.6% |
| TC-05 | Stable web B2s (13.7% avg, spiky pattern) Azure Standard_B2s, switzerlandnorth | Azure Standard_B2s switzerlandnorth | $38.54 | AWS t4g.small EU (Stockholm) | $12.56 | −67.4% |
Real workloads on real AWS and Azure accounts in EU regions, scanned with the same pipeline shipping in placemy today. Published in the 2025 MSc dissertation (L00162129). On-demand pricing; your results will vary by workload pattern.
One command. Three steps. A report with dollar figures.
A typical scan takes 2–5 minutes depending on how many VMs you run. It pulls real utilisation data, compares against 18,000+ instance types across all three clouds, and produces a report showing exactly what to change and how much you save.
Untangle
Discovers every VM across your AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, and GCP projects. Pulls 24 hours of CPU and memory metrics from CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Cloud Monitoring. You see exactly what each instance is doing — not what you guessed when you provisioned it.
Optimise
Compares each VM's P95 utilisation against 18,000+ instance types across all three clouds. Finds the right size, the right region, and the right provider — ranked by savings. In our tests, the median over-provision was 63%.
Place
Generates a self-contained HTML report with per-VM recommendations, cost comparisons, and the evidence trail explaining why each move is safe. Hand it to your team or your CFO — the numbers speak for themselves.
Nothing about your account ever leaves it.
placemy is a fat-client tool. You install it on your laptop or a build agent inside your own network, authenticate with your own cloud credentials, and the scan runs entirely in that process. Results are written to a bucket you own, in a region you chose, in your own account.
We hold a licence record and a support ticket history. We do not hold your inventory, your costs, your resource graph, or your recommendations. If you uninstall placemy tomorrow there is nothing of yours for us to delete.
Read the data-handling page for the precise list.
From install to savings report before your next meeting.
A single binary. No Docker, no Terraform, no agents to deploy. Install with one command, authenticate with your existing cloud credentials, and get a report showing exactly where your money is going.
$ curl -sSL https://placemy.cloud/install | sh $ placemy auth login $ placemy scan --output report.html aws: discovering workloads… 12 instances azure: discovering workloads… 8 instances building candidates… 20 workloads wrote report → report.html (savings: $2,847/yr)
Pick the tier that matches your cloud estate.
From a couple of accounts on Starter to a full multi-cloud estate on Scale. Unlimited scans on every tier — you only pay for how many accounts you scan, never per resource or per run.