Cost insights
Spot cloud cost changes and anomalies early
Cost insights highlight significant movements, growing services and anomalies across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with the cost data behind each signal one step away.
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The signal problem
A larger total does not explain itself
Change hides inside aggregation
A stable headline can conceal one fast-growing service while unrelated decreases offset it.
Alerts lack context
A threshold can say that spend moved without showing the service, period, and comparison behind the signal.
Ownership comes too late
By the time a spreadsheet reaches the right team, the change is harder to connect to operational work.
Insight anatomy
What keeps a signal useful
An insight identifies where to look. It does not claim a root cause that the product has not established.
- The provider and service where the movement appeared
- The comparison period used to calculate the change
- The cost impact shown in the workspace currency
- A path into the cost rows that contributed
- Insight
A significant change, a growing service or an anomaly
- Kept with it
The provider and service, the comparison period, the cost impact in the workspace currency
Where to look, not a root cause the product has not established
- One step in
The grouped and filtered cost rows that contributed
- Cost basis
The same normalized costs that feed views, budgets, allocation and reports
In the product
A shorter path from signal to source
Significant changes
Surface material movements rather than asking readers to scan every line of the bill.
Growing services
Show which services are contributing more over the selected comparison period.
Anomaly context
Keep provider, service, time range, and cost impact with the signal.
Underlying cost detail
Move from the insight into grouped and filtered cost data to inspect what contributed.
Shared cost basis
Use the same normalized costs that feed views, budgets, allocation, and reports.
Change investigation
For Business: follow a change to the dimensions and evidence behind it, and record the explanation.
Defined in the glossary: Cost insight
Related pages
- Cost reports and dashboards
Grouped and filtered views of the same cost data.
- Budgets
Budgets against actual spend.
- Savings
Savings opportunities and their status.
- Cost insights in the documentation
Step by step in the product, on the documentation portal.
From the handbook
- What cloud services cost
Data warehouses: queries, capacity and storage
- What cloud services cost
Data transfer and egress
- What cloud services cost
Content delivery: what a CDN costs
- What cloud services cost
Observability: logs, metrics and traces
- Reporting and analysis
Cost anomaly detection
- Reporting and analysis
Trends and cost drivers
See which part of your cloud bill moved
Start free with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and inspect changes in the same workspace as your cost reports.
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