What is cloud cost management?

Cloud cost management lets you analyse, control, and track your spending in the cloud. Improper tagging and account governance—that includes orphaned, overprovisioned, underutilized, or idle resources—increase your... more

Why is cloud cost management tool important?

When global teams are spread across different verticals, like an organization's engineering and finance business groups, it is essential to have a uniform cloud language to make cloud usage predictions and develop cloud strategies. Cloud cost management tool is essential for... more

What are the cloud cost management strategies?

Some important cloud cost management strategies include, Rightsizing, Autoscaling, Reserved Instances and Savings Plan, Cost Allocation Tags, and Budgeting Policies... more

Why is CloudSpend the best cloud cost management tool?

ManageEngine CloudSpend helps you operate efficiently in the cloud and cut down on unnecessary accrued costs. Business units (BU) in CloudSpend helps account holders achieve cost accountability within global teams. By creating cloud.... more

Cloud cost management reimagined

Reduce cost anomalies, simplify cloud finance! CloudSpend is a cloud cost management tool that helps you optimize your cloud costs through adopting best practices like implementing chargebacks, reserving capacity, and right-sizing resources.

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Why customers love using CloudSpend

CloudSpend offers a simplified user experience and helps users take powerful actions to manage cloud costs. Streamline businesses to achieve cost observability and keep the FinOps team happy.

Here's what CloudSpend offers your business:

Transparent pricing

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Multi-cloud support

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33%

Reduction in cost

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60%

Less time spent tracking cloud bills

Make your business stronger with cost resilience

Take control of your multi-cloud costs

Manage your AWS or Azure cloud costs at each resource level, separated by linked accounts or subscriptions. Your AWS or Azure bill is separately parsed, and you get an in-depth spend analysis where you can check costs accrued by service, region, and account.

Implement guard rails on your cloud budget

Gain insights into whether the expenses will meet the budget goals or exceed them. Take control of the split-up expenditure for individual accounts, and take measures not to exceed the budget.

Easy reporting for actionable insights

Obtain automatically created, out-of-the-box reports to gain valuable insights into your organization's cloud spending, usage, and trends. Create budgets, manage your cloud bills, and get reports in case of budget breaches.

Get granular level drill down of all resources

Perform ad-hoc analysis using various filtering and grouping dimensions. Break down spending by linked accounts within customized date ranges. Alternatively, you can use auto-generated and user-defined tags to isolate and analyze subsets of your cloud costs.

Platforms supported by ManageEngine CloudSpend

Cost Optimization for Azure

A cloud cost management tool to administer your Microsoft Azure cloud that helps you allocate Azure budgets, utilize tags, and create business units for cloud costs to track your Azure cost management journey.

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Cost Optimization for AWS

AWS cloud cost management lets you analyze, control, and track your spending on your AWS cloud services. You can also check for improper tagging and account governance.

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Overview of cloud cost management

What is cloud cost management?
Cloud cost management lets you analyse, control, and track your spending in the cloud. Improper tagging and account governance—that includes orphaned, overprovisioned, underutilized, or idle resources—increase your cloud costs. Left unchecked, your cloud costs can spiral out of control. A cost management tool helps cloud customers obtain actionable insights into their consumption patterns, enabling them to focus on reducing their per unit cost of consumption.
Why is cloud cost management tool important?
When global teams are spread across different verticals, like an organization's engineering and finance business groups, it is essential to have a uniform cloud language to make cloud usage predictions and develop cloud strategies. Cloud cost management tool is essential for understanding who is spending on what and where. Enforcing a uniform cloud language using a cloud cost management tool enables key stakeholders to make data-driven decisions on the cloud footprint.
What are the cloud cost management strategies?
Some important cloud cost management strategies include, Rightsizing, Autoscaling, Reserved Instances and Savings Plan, Cost Allocation Tags, and Budgeting Policies. CloudSpend allows you to have all these strategies from one single place.
Why is CloudSpend the best cloud cost management tool?
ManageEngine CloudSpend helps you operate efficiently in the cloud and cut down on unnecessary accrued costs. Business units (BU) in CloudSpend helps account holders achieve cost accountability within global teams. By creating cloud cost centres in a BU, you can evaluate high-level spend views of individual teams, and utilize visualizations to drill down to obtain a detailed analysis. You can also enable organizational planning to achieve the most value out of every dollar spent that you can confirm by tracking your cost for each account, service, region, or data transfer.

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Cloud cost management reimagined

Why customers love using CloudSpend

Here's what CloudSpend offers your business:

33%

50+

60%

Make your business stronger with cost resilience

Take control of your multi-cloud costs

Implement guard rails on your cloud budget

Easy reporting for actionable insights

Get granular level drill down of all resources

Platforms supported by ManageEngine CloudSpend

Cost Optimization for Azure

Cost Optimization for AWS

Explore CloudSpend features

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Blog

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Overview of cloud cost management

What is cloud cost management?

Why is cloud cost management tool important?

What are the cloud cost management strategies?

Why is CloudSpend the best cloud cost management tool?

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