Budgets
Track cloud budgets against actual spend
Set a budget for the workspace and follow actual spend against it through the period, next to the costs that make it up.
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The budget gap
A limit without cost context is hard to act on
One total hides different owners
A workspace can be on plan while one service or team is moving well beyond its expected range.
Actuals arrive after decisions
A month-end total explains what happened, but not whether current spend is moving toward a budget breach.
A budget needs an owner
A variance is only actionable when the budget names the segment that carries the cost.
In the product
Budget tracking on the same cost basis
Scoped budgets
Set a budget for the whole workspace, a saved cost report or one cost segment, in the product, through the Public API or with the Terraform provider, so every variance has an owner.
Actual spend
Compare actual spend with the budget for its period and follow the spending trend as costs arrive.
Cost context
Move from the budget into the views and dimensions that contribute to it.
Scheduled delivery
Save the cost report behind a budget and have it emailed on the schedule your review follows.
Budget alert notifications
Thresholds as a share of the budget, checked every hour, with a notification when one is reached.
Spend forecast
A projection of where spend is heading within the budget period.
Defined in the glossary: Segment
Related pages
- Cost reports and dashboards
The grouped and filtered views behind each budget.
- Cost insights
Significant changes, growing services and anomalies.
- Cost allocation
Rules that assign costs to the segments a budget is scoped to.
- Budgets in the documentation
Step by step in the product, on the documentation portal.
From the handbook
- Budgets, forecasts and finance
Cloud budgets
- Budgets, forecasts and finance
Budget alerts and thresholds
- Budgets, forecasts and finance
Variance analysis for cloud cost
- Budgets, forecasts and finance
Building the annual cloud budget
- Governance and the operating model
Cost governance policy: content and enforcement
- Governance and the operating model
Guardrails and approval thresholds
Put a budget beside the costs your team controls
Start free with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and build the first budget from your workspace data.
Permanent Free plan with no time limit