Use Cases

Allocate multi-currency charges per application Analyze effective cost by pricing currency Analyze purchase of virtual currency Analyze tag coverage Determine target of virtual currency usage Identify sources of billed cost Report corrections by subaccount for a previously invoiced billing period Verify accuracy of provider invoices aka invoice reconciliation

Analyze costs by service name Analyze service costs by region Compare resource usage month over month Identify anomalous daily spending by subaccount Identify anomalous daily spending by subaccount and region Identify anomalous daily spending by subaccount, region, and service Identify unused capacity reservations

Calculate consumption of virtual currency within a billing period Compare billed cost per subaccount to budget Update budgets for each application Update budgets with billed costs

Verify Accuracy of Provider Invoices Verify accuracy of services charges across providers Verify discount accuracy for previously invoiced billing period

Calculate average rate of a component resource Forecast amortized costs month over month based on historical trends Forecast cashflow month over month based on historical trends by service Get historical usage and rates to enable cost forecasting

Report subaccounts by region

Understand the billing account or sub account entity

Determine contracted savings by virtual currency Quantify usage of a component resource Report effective cost of compute

Identify unused commitments Report commitment discount purchases

Analyze capacity reservations on compute costs Analyze marketplace vendors costs Analyze resource costs by SKU Analyze service costs by subaccount Analyze service costs month over month Analyze the different metered costs for a particular SKU Calculate unit economics Determine Effective Savings Rate Determine Effective Savings Rate by Service Report application cost month over month Report corrections for a previously invoiced billing period Report costs by service category Report costs by service category and subcategory Report service costs by providers subaccount Report spending across billing periods for a provider by service category

Analyze credit memos

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