Cloud Costs brings spend from all your connected accounts into one view. First, connect your cloud accounts.
What you see
- Provider tabs: every cloud together, or one at a time.
- Spend over time: month-by-month history.
- Forecast: where this month is likely to finish.
- Cost by tag: spend grouped by a tag such as
team,envorproject. - AI analysis: a plain-language explanation of what changed, on plans that include AI.
Why numbers can differ from your bill
- Providers can take a day or more to finalise usage, so recent days may change.
- Google Cloud's billing reports use Pacific Time. Set Billing Timezone in the settings to match if you compare the two.
- Credits may be reported separately, and Azure credits are entered by hand.
Budget alerts
Open Budget Alerts to get warned before you overspend.
- Create a budget for all clouds, one cloud, a project or an organisation.
- Set an amount and period. Monthly suits most workloads.
- Set an alert threshold. 80% gives you time to act.
Start with one budget across all clouds, then add narrower ones.
Common questions
The page says no billing history
The provider isn't connected, or its export has no data yet. See Connect AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Cost by tag is empty
Tags appear only after you activate them for cost reporting with your provider. On AWS, Cost Explorer also needs ce:GetCostAndUsage.
When is data updated?
Scans run about once an hour. Cloud Costs availability is shown on the status page.