Cloud Overview

The Cloud Overview dashboard provides a consolidated view of cloud billed costs based on cloud consumption data loaded into the application. It helps you monitor overall cloud spend trends, compare current and prior year costs, and understand where cloud costs are being incurred across months, billing accounts, providers, and regions.

Scope

This dashboard includes:

• Cloud billed costs sourced from cloud consumption files uploaded to the application

• Spend analysis across:

  • Monthly trends

  • Cloud providers

  • Billing accounts

  • Cloud billing regions

Who should use this dashboard?

• IT Management

• IT Finance

• IT Executives

• Cloud Management teams

• Cloud Architects

• Product and Service Owners

What is this dashboard used for?

This dashboard is used to monitor cloud billed costs derived directly from cloud consumption files. It provides visibility into:

• Month-to-month and year-to-date cloud spend

• Spend distribution by billing accounts and providers

• Regional drivers of cloud costs

 What questions does this dashboard answer?

• What is the total cloud billed cost year to date?

• How does current year cloud spend compare to the prior year?

• Which billing accounts are driving cloud costs?

• Which cloud providers contribute most to total spend?

• Which regions account for the highest cloud consumption?

Key benefits

• Supports monthly cloud cost reporting and variance analysis

• Helps quickly identify spend anomalies and unusual trends

• Enables drill-down analysis to investigate specific cost drivers

• Improves visibility into cloud consumption patterns

• Drives accountability with product and service owners for cloud usage and optimization

For detailed instructions on navigating dashboards and using filters, see: Navigation and filters

KPIs

Charts and tables

Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.

Monthly Spend

This chart shows the month-on-month and the cumulative year to date cloud billed costs. Cloud billed cost is shown as total spend and prior year cloud spend for each month. The cumulative dotted line predicts cost for future months based on historic cloud billed cost.

Click on any spend column to drill into the month and see the spend broken down for the month.

Billing Accounts

The Billing Accounts chart shows a breakdown of cloud billed costs by billing accounts. The cloud billed costs for each billing account is shown as spend YTD and prior year YTD. The billing accounts are shown with name and billing account ID.

Click on any bar to drill further into the Billing Account Spend report.

Providers

The Providers chart breaks down cloud billed costs by provider and shows each provider’s share of total cloud spend. The total cloud billed cost is displayed at the center of the chart.

Click on any provider portion to drill further into the Provider Spend report for deeper analysis.

Top 20 Regions

The Top 20 Regions chart highlights the regions with the highest cloud billed costs, ranked from highest to lowest. For each region, the chart shows spend YTD, prior year spend YTD, and spend variance.
Click on any region to drill down into the Region Spend report for detailed insights.

Data sources

The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.