The Cloud Services dashboard provides a consolidated view of cloud billed costs by service and service category. It helps you understand how cloud service spend is distributed across different service category and month.
Scope
This dashboard includes:
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Cloud billed costs sourced from cloud consumption files uploaded to the application.
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Covers spend across individual cloud services and service categories.
Who should use this dashboard?
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IT management
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IT finance and FinOps teams
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Cloud management and cloud architects
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Product and service owners
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IT leadership and executives
What is this dashboard used for?
This dashboard is used to monitor:
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Total cloud billed costs on various cloud services
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Year-to-date and prior year-to-date cloud service spend
What questions does this dashboard answer?
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What is the total cloud billed cost year-to-date?
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How does the prior year cloud billed cost compare to the year-to-date cloud billed cost?
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Which cloud services drive cloud billed costs?
Key benefits
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Supports monthly cloud spend reporting and variance analysis
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Helps quickly identify cost drivers and anomalies
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Enables drill-down analysis to understand service-level consumption
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Drives cost accountability across product and service owners
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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.
Top 20 Services
The Top 20 Services chart highlights the top 20 cloud services ranked by billed cost, from highest to lowest. For each service, the chart shows year-to-date spend, prior year spend, and variance.
Click on any bar to drill further into the Service Spend report.
Service Categories
The Service Categories chart shows a breakdown of cloud billed costs by service category. It compares year-to-date cloud billed cost with prior year year-to-date spend for each category. The stacked bars represent the contribution of individual cloud providers within each service category.
Click on any service category to drill down into the Service Category Spend report.
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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Top 20 Services |
Consumption Data |
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Service Categories |
Consumption Data |