# BlueArch

> BlueArch is FinOps Best Practices as a Service for AWS. Two products (BlueArch CLI, Tag Manager), three executive solutions (EDP/PPA insurance, Cloud Efficiency Metrics, Claude Governance), and the open Governance Hub — all self-hosted in your VPC.

## Products

- [BlueArch CLI — AI-native AWS alerts for SREs](https://www.bluearch.io/products/cli): AI-native AWS alerts, sorted by business impact and dollars at risk — runs in your VPC.
- [Tag Manager — AWS tagging with business workflows](https://www.bluearch.io/products/tag-manager): AWS tagging that drives lifecycle workflows — TTL, ownership, cost cleanup, exception handling.

## Solutions

- [EDP / PPA Insurance — BlueArch](https://www.bluearch.io/solutions/edp-ppa): Forecast, insure, and mitigate AWS EDP / PPA commitments. For CFOs and Heads of FP&A.
- [Cloud Efficiency Metrics — BlueArch](https://www.bluearch.io/solutions/cloud-efficiency): Pair AWS cost with revenue, product, and headcount data — board-grade IT efficiency metrics.
- [Claude Governance — BlueArch](https://www.bluearch.io/solutions/claude-governance): Bespoke Claude system prompts, scoped tool catalogs, and policy that cut token costs 30–60%.

## Company

- [BlueArch — FinOps Best Practices as a Service](https://www.bluearch.io/): FinOps Best Practices as a Service for AWS — the control plane that ties infrastructure to revenue.
- [Governance Hub — open AWS misconfiguration catalog](https://www.bluearch.io/governance-hub): The largest free, LLM-formatted database of AWS misconfigurations — MIT licensed, MCP-ready.
- [About BlueArch](https://www.bluearch.io/about): Founders, story, principles, and investors behind BlueArch — formerly Blueprint Architectures.

## Blog

- [BlueArch Blog](https://www.bluearch.io/blog): Field notes on AWS FinOps, governance, and the cost of running Claude — mirrored from bluearch.substack.com.
- [AoE2 villagers, text compression, and what actually makes a chatbot smart](https://www.bluearch.io/blog/aoe2-villagers-text-compression-and) (2026-06-09): Two recent AI papers — one a clever joke about Age of Empires II, the other a serious measurement of model skill — make a much sharper point together than either does alone.
- [Route LLM calls by cost, not just quality](https://www.bluearch.io/blog/route-llm-calls-by-cost-not-just) (2026-06-08): How intelligent model routing cuts inference spend without sacrificing output accuracy for your workloads.
- [One CLI to Rule Your AI Agents](https://www.bluearch.io/blog/one-cli-to-rule-your-ai-agents) (2026-06-07): ASM centralizes skills across Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and 10+ agents — no more scattered directories.
- [Graph Your Codebase, Shrink Your Bill](https://www.bluearch.io/blog/graph-your-codebase-shrink-your-bill) (2026-06-06): Pre-indexed knowledge graphs cut tool calls by 70% and keep context local—no model changes required.
- [The fourth input: why energy ties cloud FinOps together](https://www.bluearch.io/blog/the-fourth-input-why-energy-ties) (2026-06-03): Labor, capital, data — and energy. How grid simulation thinking reframes capacity planning and infrastructure cost models.

## Optional

- [Full content](https://www.bluearch.io/llms-full.txt): every page in one file, llms.txt convention.
- [Misconfiguration repo](https://github.com/bluearchio/aws-misconfig-db): MIT-licensed source of truth for the Governance Hub.