AWS cost waste, security and uptime, watched for you.
Your AWS bill and your site, watched: the AWS cost waste and the security gaps come first, with the one fix for the waste, and uptime monitoring included.
NimbusWatch is monitoring for solo founders who are not cloud experts. One plain dashboard for your AWS account first: the cost waste quietly draining your bill, and the security gaps in the same account, most waste findings priced as estimated monthly savings and the rest advisory, each with the one thing to do. Uptime and latency monitoring sit alongside that as the included baseline. See sample findings before you decide.
Not useful? Email support@nimbuswatch.com and we make the refund by hand — it is never automatic, and there is no self-service refund button. Dissatisfied customers may request a refund within 7 days of purchase.
Live today. Cost-waste detection (Pro and above) and the security scan (Starter and above) for your AWS account, AWS spend tracking with budgets, alerts in-app or to Slack or email (Starter and up), and uptime and latency monitoring as the included baseline are all working. Paid plans are billed monthly by Stripe and you can cancel anytime.
Not on AWS yet — or hosting somewhere else? Uptime and latency monitoring works on Free with nothing connected. Spend tracking needs an AWS account (Starter and up); the security scan needs one on Starter and up, and cost-waste detection needs one on Pro and up.
Isn’t this what AWS Cost Explorer already does?
The Cost Explorer console shows you the total. NimbusWatch names the one thing to do about it.
AWS Cost Explorer shows the total
A dashboard line: your account spent $312.44 this month. Which resource is doing it? What do you delete to make it stop? That part is up to you to dig out.
NimbusWatch names the resource and the fix
A single finding: unused NAT gateway, ~$32/mo. Here is the resource, here is the one thing to do to stop paying for it, and here is the estimated monthly savings.
That is the whole difference: see it as a sample finding.
How it works
Three steps, no cloud expertise required. You connect once, NimbusWatch does the watching.
- 1
Connect what you want watched
Paste the URL of your website or app, and connect your AWS account.
- 2
We watch on a schedule
We check your site on your plan's schedule, recording whether it is up and how fast it answered. About once a day we also run the AWS cost-waste and security scans for the accounts you have opted in, each waste finding priced in estimated monthly dollars where a figure can be computed, and we track your month-to-date spend against the budget you set in between. You can run a scan yourself on demand — at most every 15 minutes per account. A run you start yourself counts as that account's scan, so the next scheduled pass can find nothing due.
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You hear about problems
Alerts land in your dashboard as soon as a check fails, a site gets slow, or spending runs past your budget. Checks run on your plan's cadence, so a very short blip can fall between two of them.
Every action the IAM policy we provide grants only reads your account, with one exception: iam:GenerateCredentialReport, which AWS labels a Write action but which only asks IAM to compile a report about your account and changes nothing.
Refer a friend, earn credit
Every NimbusWatch customer has a personal referral link, and it works for every friend who uses it. The 25% off their first month is applied automatically at checkout, and you earn 25% of their first-month price as account credit: about $2.25 on Starter, $7.25 on Pro, or $19.75 on Scale per friend.
- Your friend saves 25% on their first month, applied automatically at checkout — there is no code to type.
- You earn credit once your friend has been a paying customer for 30 days.
- Credit is capped at $500 total and is never cash. It comes off your own bill.
Get your link
Every account, even the Free plan, has one. Sign up or log in and find yours under Referrals in the app.
Plans
Website health checks run on your plan’s schedule: every 5 minutes on Pro and Scale, every 15 minutes on Starter, and hourly on Free. Plans differ in how many sites you monitor and how many AWS accounts you connect. The AWS security scan (Starter and above) and wasted-spend detection (Pro and above) are opt-in advisory scans. Each connected account is scanned about once a day, and you can run a scan yourself on demand — at most every 15 minutes per account. A run you start yourself counts as that account's scan, so the next scheduled pass can find nothing due. Every waste finding comes with the one fix and, where a figure can be computed, an estimated monthly savings figure. Start on a 7-day free trial of Starter — no card needed — and move up when you need more.
Every account starts on a 7-day free trial of Starter, and no card is needed to start it. The trial includes the AWS security scan, your month-to-date AWS spend and budget alerts, and Slack and email alerts. We do not send a reminder when the 7-day free trial ends — your dashboard shows the exact end date and time. Free is where a trial ends up if you do not subscribe: one website monitor, hourly checks and in-app alerts.
One found idle server usually pays for the month. A single idle server bills about $60 a month. The waste scan — Pro and above — finds it, prices it, and tells you the one fix. Starter includes the security scan instead: it shows your spend and budget, but no cost-waste finding and no estimated saving.
| Plan | Price | Website monitors | AWS accounts | Check frequency | Also included | Sign up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7-day free trial of StarterNo card needed | $0for 7 days | 5 | 1 | every 15 minutes |
| Start the trial |
| FreeFor one side projectWhere a trial lands | $0forever | 1 | 0 | every hour |
| Start free |
| StarterFor a project that matters | $9per month | 5 | 1 | every 15 minutes |
| Sign up to subscribe |
| ProFor a founder running several apps | $29per month | 20 | 3 | every 5 minutes |
| Sign up to subscribe |
| ScaleFor a growing product | $79per month | 100 | 10 | every 5 minutes |
| Sign up to subscribe |
Subscriptions are billed monthly in advance ($9, $29 or $79 per month) and you can cancel anytime. A paid plan carries a 7-day money-back guarantee: Dissatisfied customers may request a refund within 7 days of purchase. The claim goes through support: email support@nimbuswatch.com. There is no self-service refund button, and the refund is made by us by hand rather than automatically. When you first subscribe, checkout happens securely on Stripe’s payment page; when you move up to a higher plan, you see the exact amount charged that day before you confirm it. Your plan is applied automatically once the payment confirms and appears on your dashboard.
Not sure what the scans catch? See sample security and cost-waste findings : the exact checks, shown with realistic data.
Compare
How we compare
Weighing NimbusWatch against another tool? Here is the honest side-by-side, written for a solo founder deciding where to spend.
NimbusWatch vs CostPatrol
Both find AWS money you are wasting. The difference is who they are written for, and what else you get for the money.
Read the comparison →NimbusWatch vs Trueno
Trueno is a command center for engineering teams, priced per seat. NimbusWatch is plain English for a solo founder, priced flat.
Read the comparison →NimbusWatch vs AWS Cost Explorer
Cost Explorer shows you the total. NimbusWatch tells you the one thing to delete to shrink it.
Read the comparison →Why I Built NimbusWatch
If you’ve ever shipped an app to AWS, you know the quiet anxiety that sets in afterward. You know it works right now, but do you know if it’s still up at 3:00 AM? Do you know what AWS is quietly billing you for in the background? Or whether an accidental public S3 bucket or open firewall port is waiting to bite you?
Most cloud monitoring tools are built for massive enterprise DevOps teams. They require complex setups, custom agents, expensive enterprise contracts, and hours of dashboard configuration just to tell you if a server is online.
I didn’t need an enterprise control panel. I wanted a simple set of eyes, something I could spin up in minutes that watches my website, tracks my AWS month-to-date spend against a hard budget, scans for security blind spots, and points out the zombie resources draining my wallet every month.
I built NimbusWatch to be the tool I wanted for my own projects:
- Read-only access: every action the IAM policy we provide grants only reads your account, with one exception:
iam:GenerateCredentialReport, which AWS labels a Write action but which only asks IAM to compile a report about your account and changes nothing. - Plain English findings: Every security alert or cost-waste report comes with the exact, step-by-step fix: no cloud expert certification required.
- Zero bloat: Just uptime monitoring, latency checks, and actionable cloud cost intelligence, all in one clean dashboard with alerts.
Whether you’re running a solo side-hustle or scaling an independent SaaS, you shouldn’t need a dedicated cloud infrastructure team to keep your app secure and your AWS bill under control. That’s what NimbusWatch does for me, and that’s why I built it for you.
Kirk Lockhart on LinkedIn ↗