The Cloud Resources dashboard provides a detailed view of cloud billed costs at the individual resource level. It helps you understand where cloud spend is being generated across resources, regions, providers, and billing accounts, and how that spend is trending over time.
Scope
This dashboard includes:
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Cloud billed costs for all individual cloud resources
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Breakdowns by month, region, provider, billing account, and resource
Who should use this dashboard?
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IT Management
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IT Finance
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Cloud Management teams
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Cloud Architects
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Product and Service Owners
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IT Executives
What is this dashboard used for?
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Monitoring total cloud billed costs at the resource level
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Supporting monthly cloud spend reporting and variance analysis
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Identifying high-cost or anomalous cloud resources
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Enabling optimization discussions based on detailed resource consumption
What questions does this dashboard answer?
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What is the total cloud billed cost year-to-date at the resource level?
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How does current year spend compare to the prior year?
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Which cloud resources are driving the highest costs?
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How is cloud resource spend distributed across regions, providers, and billing accounts?
Key benefits
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Provides visibility into cloud costs at the most granular (resource) level
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Helps quickly identify cost anomalies and optimization opportunities
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Supports informed discussions with product and service owners
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Enables drill-down analysis from high-level trends to individual resources
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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.
Regions
The Regions chart shows a breakdown of cloud billed cost by regions. The cloud billed cost for each regions shown as cloud billed cost YTD and prior year YTD.
Click on any bar to drill further into the Region 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.
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.
Top 20 Resources
The Top 20 Resources chart shows the top 20 resources by cloud billed cost from most to least cloud billed cost. Cloud billed cost for each resource bar is shown as YTD and prior YTD billed cost.
Click on any bar to drill further into the Resource Spend report for detailed analysis.
Data sources
The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.
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Chart name |
Data cube |
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Monthly Spend |
Consumption Data |
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Regions |
Consumption Data |
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Providers |
Consumption Data |
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Billing Accounts |
Consumption Data |
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Top 20 Resources |
Consumption Data |