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Your AWS billing remains unchanged

You continue to pay AWS directly for all your cloud usage, as you normally would. Our service operates alongside your existing AWS billing relationship.

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Performance-based billing

  • Our fee is 20% of the savings you realize by using MilkStraw AI.
  • These savings are determined monthly based on the performance of the we send to your AWS organization.
  • We fetch the savings from the Cost Explorer API to get the total savings and from it we calculate our fee.
  • The fee applies only to savings from MilkBoxes. Savings you get by completing tasks on the project board are not billed.
  • A coupon redeemed in Settings > Billing lowers your fee.
  • There are no charges for onboarding, initial system analysis, or ongoing support.

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Example calculation

Let’s say your current AWS bill is $10,000/month. After using MilkStraw AI:
  1. New AWS bill: $7,000/month
  2. Total savings: $3,000/month
  3. MilkStraw AI fee (20%): $600/month
  4. Your net savings: $2,400/month
You keep 80% of all savings while we handle the optimization work.

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Billing cycle

  • A monthly bill for the MilkStraw AI service fee is issued for each organization, covering all of its AWS accounts.
  • Billing occurs after your AWS bill is issued. We charge the fee to the payment card on file on the 5th of every month.
  • You can review your MilkStraw AI billing history and invoices in Settings > Billing. Only the Owner, Admin, and Billing roles can open this page.
  • To view an invoice, add your legal name and full address to your billing details on the same page.
We prorate your savings for the first partial month and calculate full monthly savings thereafter.