Core Concepts
The nine objects that carry most of the meaning in the product — and how they relate to one another.
Nine objects carry most of the meaning in Varcio FinOps Copilot. Understanding them makes every module page straightforward.
How they fit together
The objects
Vocabulary that trips people up
Identified vs. realised savings
Identified savings are predicted — every cost tool can produce them, and they are cheap. Realised savings are verified against subsequent actual spend after the fix landed.
The second is the number that appears on an invoice, and the one a CFO will accept. Varcio tracks them as separate states throughout, and a persistent gap between them indicates an execution bottleneck rather than a detection problem.
The protected tag
Any resource tagged finops:protected=true is unconditionally skipped by every automated
action in the platform. No exceptions, no configuration required.