Quick Start

Cloud Cost Optimization works seamlessly with all cloud service providers, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and others. It ingests billing data from these cloud providers, enabling you to allocate costs, identify waste, and perform detailed analysis of your cloud spend. You can adjust your bill to allow for taxes, fees, markups or markdowns, and currency conversions.

This chapter provides information about the following sections:

Topic	Content
Bill Data Connections	Explains how to configure Cloud Cost Optimization to read your billing data.
Bill Adjustments	Describes how to make flexible billing adjustments, based on customizable rules, by a variety of dimensions.
Bill Processing Status	Describes the Bill Processing Status dashboard to view the status of your bill connects.
Cloud Telemetry Connections	Describes the provider-specific credentials that Flexera supports.
Automated Optimization	Describes automated optimization capabilities that identify savings opportunities and help you set up automated actions to realize potential savings and prevent future waste.
Using Rule-Based Dimensions to Analyze Cost	Describes the capabilities and potential uses of rule-based dimensions. Users can apply rule-based dimensions on the Cloud dashboards and the Tabular View to look at their costs from meaningful new perspectives and provide new insights important to their business.