Monthly Cloud Services Spend

The Monthly Spend report provides a detailed view of cloud billed cost for a selected month. It allows you to analyze spend at a daily level and review how cloud costs are distributed across services and service categories for the chosen period.

This report is accessed by drilling down from the Monthly Spend chart in the Cloud Services 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.

Charts and tables

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

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.

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 services to drill into the related GL transactions.

Services 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 bar 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
Top 20 Services	Consumption Data
Service Categories	Consumption Data
Monthly Spend Details	Consumption Data