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Cloud Resources

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:

  • Cloud billed costs for all individual cloud resources

  • Breakdowns by month, region, provider, billing account, and resource

Who should use this dashboard?

  • IT Management

  • IT Finance

  • Cloud Management teams

  • Cloud Architects

  • Product and Service Owners

  • IT Executives

What is this dashboard used for?

  • Monitoring total cloud billed costs at the resource level

  • Supporting monthly cloud spend reporting and variance analysis

  • Identifying high-cost or anomalous cloud resources

  • Enabling optimization discussions based on detailed resource consumption

What questions does this dashboard answer?

  • What is the total cloud billed cost year-to-date at the resource level?

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

  • Which cloud resources are driving the highest costs?

  • How is cloud resource spend distributed across regions, providers, and billing accounts?

Key benefits

  • Provides visibility into cloud costs at the most granular (resource) level

  • Helps quickly identify cost anomalies and optimization opportunities

  • Supports informed discussions with product and service owners

  • Enables drill-down analysis from high-level trends to individual resources 

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.



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.

Chart name

Data cube

Monthly Spend

Consumption Data

Regions

Consumption Data

Providers

Consumption Data

Billing Accounts

Consumption Data

Top 20 Resources

Consumption Data

Drill down reports