Monthly Spend (Cloud Overview)

The Monthly Spend report provides a detailed view of cloud billed costs for a selected month. It helps you analyze how cloud spend is distributed across days, billing accounts, providers, and regions, and understand month-level variances compared to the prior year.

This report is accessed by drilling down from the Monthly Spend chart in the Cloud Overview dashboard and is scoped to a selected month.

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

KPIs

Spend (YTD)

Total cloud billed cost for the selected year to date.

Prior Year Spend

Total cloud billed cost for the prior year

Variance

Difference between current year-to-date cloud spend and prior year spend for the same period.

Potential Savings

Expected cost savings that could be achieved by following the recommendations.

Realized Savings

Actual cost savings achieved by implementing the recommendations.

Daily Spend

This chart helps you to identify daily cloud billed cost spikes and short-term usage patterns. The column is stacked to display how much each cloud provider costs on a daily basis. The daily spend is available for the most recent three months only.

Click on any cloud billed cost column to drill into the related GL transactions.

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 into the related GL transactions.

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 portions to drill into the related GL transactions.

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 into the related GL transactions.

Monthly Spend Details

This chart shows the monthly cloud billed cost trend for the filtered month. The cloud cost is shown as billed cost, prior year billed cost and variance for each month.

Click on any row to drill into the transaction level cloud billed cost for the month.

Data sources

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

Chart name	Data cube
Daily Spend	Consumption Data
Billing Accounts	Consumption Data
Providers	Consumption Data
Top 20 Regions	Consumption Data
Monthly Spend Details	Consumption Data