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Allocation

Allocate multi-currency charges per applicationAnalyze cost by participating entitiesAnalyze effective cost by pricing currencyAnalyze purchase of virtual currencyAnalyze tag coverageAnalyze total cost by allocated resourceDetermine target of virtual currency usageIdentify resources with shared cost allocationIdentify sources of billed costReport corrections by subaccount for a previously invoiced billing periodtrack marketplace purchases across providersVerify accuracy of provider invoices aka invoice reconciliation

Anomaly Management

Analyze costs by service nameAnalyze service costs by regionCompare resource usage month over monthIdentify anomalous daily spending by subaccountIdentify anomalous daily spending by subaccount and regionIdentify anomalous daily spending by subaccount, region, and serviceIdentify unused capacity reservations

Budgeting

Calculate consumption of virtual currency within a billing periodCompare billed cost per subaccount to budgetTrack contract commitment burn-down over timeUpdate budgets for each applicationUpdate budgets with billed costs

Data Ingestion

Verify accuracy of service provider invoicesVerify accuracy of services charges across service providersVerify discount accuracy for a previously invoiced billing period (corrections excluded)

Forecasting

Calculate average rate of a component resourceForecast amortized costs month over month based on historical trendsForecast cashflow month over month based on historical trends by serviceGet historical usage and rates to enable cost forecasting

Invoicing & Chargeback

Understand the billing account or sub account entity

Planning & Estimating

Determine contracted savings by virtual currencyJoin contract commitment details with usage chargesQuantify usage of a component resourceReport effective cost of compute

Policy & Governance

Report subaccounts by region

Rate Optimization

Identify unused commitmentsReport commitment discount purchases

Reporting & Analytics

Analyze capacity reservations on compute costsAnalyze marketplace vendors costsAnalyze resource costs by SKUAnalyze service costs by subaccountAnalyze service costs month over monthAnalyze the different metered costs for a particular SKUCalculate unit economicsDetermine Effective Savings RateDetermine Effective Savings Rate by ServiceReport application cost month over monthReport corrections for a previously invoiced billing periodReport costs by service categoryReport costs by service category and subcategoryReport on initial contract commitmentsReport service costs by providers subaccountReport spending across billing periods for a service provider by service category

Unit Economics

Analyze credit memos

Workload Optimization

Analyze cost per compute service for a subaccountAnalyze costs by availability zone for a subaccountAnalyze costs of components of a resource

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