The Commitment Overview dashboard provides a comprehensive view of cloud-related financial commitments and how they impact overall cloud costs. It tracks and visualizes various aspects of cloud billing and commitment-based discounts. This dashboard helps you to view a breakdown of the total cloud billed cost by billing accounts, commitment discount categories, and discount types.
Scope
This dashboard focuses on cloud spend that is influenced by commitment-based pricing models, such as savings plans and reservations. The data is sourced from the cloud consumption file loaded to the application.
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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IT Executives
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Product and Service Owners
What is this dashboard used for?
The Commitment Overview dashboard is used to monitor total cloud billed costs and understand how much of that spend is covered by commitment-based discounts. It helps assess the effectiveness of commitment strategies and track how commitments are distributed across accounts and discount types
What questions does this dashboard answer?
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How much cloud spend is covered by commitment-based discounts?
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How does commitment coverage change month over month?
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Which billing accounts drive committed and non-committed spend?
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Which commitment discount categories and types contribute most to billed cost?
Key benefits
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Provides visibility into committed vs non-committed cloud spend
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Helps track the effectiveness of savings plans and reservations
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Supports optimization of cloud commitment strategies
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Enables financial accountability across billing accounts and discount programs
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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
The Monthly Spend chart compares monthly cloud billed cost, effective cost, and list cost for the selected year. The columns are segmented by commitment discount category to show how commitments contribute to the monthly spend.
Click on any spend column to drill into a specific month and view a detailed breakdown of cloud billed costs for that period.
Commitment Coverage(%)
The Commitment Coverage (%) chart shows the percentage of total cloud spend covered by commitment-based discounts for each month. This view helps track how consistently commitments are being utilized over time.
Click on any month to view the commitment coverage details for that month.
Billing Accounts
The Billing Accounts chart displays cloud billed cost broken down by billing account. It highlights which accounts contribute most to total spend and committed costs.
Click on any column to drill further into the Billing Account Spend report for deeper analysis.
Commitment Discount Categories
The Commitment Discount Categories chart shows cloud billed cost grouped by commitment discount category. This helps identify which types of commitment programs drive the largest portions of spend.
Click on any category to drill further into the Commitment Discount Category Spend report.
Commitment Discount Types
The Commitment Discount Types chart provides a breakdown of cloud billed cost by commitment discount type. This view supports comparison of how different commitment mechanisms contribute to overall cost optimization.
Click on any discount type to drill further into the Commitment Discount Type 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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Commitment Coverage(%) |
Consumption Data |
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Billing Accounts |
Consumption Data |
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Commitment Discount Categories |
Consumption Data |
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Commitment Discount Types |
Consumption Data |
Drill down reports