Govern

Govern cloud spend without slowing teams down

Guardrails for every cloud and AI workload. Budgets, policies, and approvals enforced automatically to catch issues before they become overruns.

78%of FinOps teams report to CTO/CIOFinOps Foundation, State of FinOps 2026
98%of orgs now manage AI spendFinOps Foundation, State of FinOps 2026
60%use centralized FinOps modelsFinOps Foundation, State of FinOps 2026

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Governance Controls

One place to govern all cloud and AI spend

Harness surfaces budget overruns, flags policy violations, and routes approvals automatically, before spend gets out of control.

Budget management

Set budgets and get alerted before you overspend

Define monthly or quarterly budgets by team, project, or account. Harness tracks spend in real time and alerts owners at configurable thresholds, before limits are hit.

Budgets scoped by account, tag, service, or team. Granular budget hierarchy means each team owns its own spend boundary. Engineering, ML, Data Science: every team gets their own view.

Alerts at 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% of each budget. Owners are notified before limits are breached. Configurable thresholds per budget with Slack and email delivery.

AI-generated forecasts show projected month-end spend. Catch overruns before they happen with model-based spend projections. Know on day 10 whether you will hit your limit on day 30.

AI policy enforcement

Write policies in your own words

Describe governance policies the way you'd explain it to a teammate and Cost Management Agent translates it into enforced cloud and AI rules across AWS, Azure, and GCP. No OPA knowledge required, no YAML policies to maintain.

Natural language policy authoring with AI translation. Describe your intent in plain English. Harness generates and deploys the enforcement rule automatically. 150+ pre-built rules included.

Automated enforcement across AWS, Azure, and GCP. No manual intervention needed. Policies execute the moment a violation is detected, across every account and every region.

Violations flagged in real time with remediation steps. Every policy breach surfaces with a suggested fix so teams can act immediately. Severity levels configurable per policy.

Continuous compliance

Policies that run continuously, without manual oversight

Automated enforcement runs 24/7 across every account. Violations are caught and remediated automatically. Common issues like idle resources, missing tags, and oversized instances are resolved without a ticket.

Continuous enforcement with zero manual review cycles. Policies execute automatically, flagging violations and taking action before issues escalate. No scheduled scans, no manual checks.

Auto-remediation for common violations. Idle resources stopped, missing tags added, oversized instances flagged and right-sized. All without engineering intervention.

Configurable severity levels with escalation paths. Low-severity issues auto-remediate. High-severity violations route to the right owner with context and a recommended fix.

Approvals & audit trail

Built-in approval workflows and audit trails

Route provisioning through approval flows before spend is incurred. Every action is logged for compliance and audit readiness, with evidence ready whenever you need it.

Approval workflows for spend thresholds and resource types. Define rules once. Harness routes requests automatically based on cost and resource class: GPU instances, spend over $5k, new production accounts.

Slack and email notifications with one-click approval. Approvers act directly from their inbox or Slack channel without logging into the platform. Full context included in every notification.

SOC 2 and FinOps-ready audit reports on demand. Every decision is timestamped and attributable. Exportable audit evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FinOps reviews, available instantly.

Governance Audit Log
SOC 2 ready
Budget alert sent
DevOps team at 90% of budget
2m ago
Approval requested
p3.8xlarge instance · $4,800/mo
14m ago
Policy enforced
3 untagged instances stopped
1h ago
Approval granted
A100 GPU cluster · eng-lead
3h ago
Spend spike detected
ML Inference +28% vs prior week
5h ago
Policy violation
Public S3 bucket in prod-account
8h ago
Full audit trail exportable for SOC 2 and FinOps reviews
Customer Success

Trusted by engineering leaders

“Cloud Asset Governance found savings in areas we thought were already optimized. The policy enforcement alone paid for itself.”

— Platform Engineering Lead, VP of Platform, OneAdvanced

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Budgets, policies, and approvals for every cloud and AI workload, enforced automatically with full audit trails.