Sonde watches your AWS resources in real time, estimates hourly spend against your budget, and pauses the runaway job — not terminates it. With one-click override from Slack.
CloudWatch metrics × AWS Pricing API — not Cost Explorer. No 24-hour billing lag. Sonde knows your spend is breaching before AWS does.
Every enforcement preserves state. The job is paused, not deleted. The researcher's work is waiting when they resume. Trust survives.
Define thresholds by account and environment label. Dev at $100/day. Staging at $500. Production is observation-only — always.
A signed URL lands in Slack the moment enforcement fires. One click resumes the resource for a configurable window. Logged and audited.
Production accounts are read-only observation unless an admin explicitly opts them in. One misconfigured enforcement event ends a company. We know.
Every enforcement event is written before the action fires — resource, policy, spend estimate, actor. Compliance teams get what they need.
IAM role in your AWS account. Read + enforcement scope. No data plane access — ever. Setup takes under five minutes.
Define a spend threshold per environment. Dev, staging, sandbox. Production is always observe-only.
Sonde polls every 5 minutes. When spend crosses the threshold, the resource is paused and the owner is notified via Slack.
One click in Slack resumes for N hours. When the window closes, enforcement picks up exactly where it left off.
Connect your AWS account in under five minutes. Set a budget. Let Sonde handle the rest.