Using Cloud Cost Optimization

Using Cloud Cost Optimization, you can monitor your cloud usage allocation, costs and discounting structures for all public and private cloud accounts and all associated costs. This solution enables you to identify cloud cost optimization and savings opportunities and receive smart recommendations for cost optimization actions.

This topic is organized into the following sections:

Topic	Content
Accessing the Cloud Dashboard	Covers custom and shared dashboards.
Analyzing Cloud Costs in Billing Centers	Discusses the use of billing centers with a focus on cost dimensions and billing center hierarchies.
Analyzing IT Asset Management and SaaS Spend	Explains how the ITAM and SaaS spend is analyzed.
Tabular View	Explains how to use the Tabular View for analyzing cloud spend.
Sample Cloud Cost Reports	Describes the sample reports that you can create in Cloud Cost Optimization.
Cloud Budgets	Explains how to create and manage cloud budgets.
Commitments	Describes the Commitments page in Cloud Cost Optimization. This page shows information about your RIs and savings plans for the selected organization for a 30-day rolling window.
Viewing Potential Savings	Provides a view of your organization's Total Potential Savings from recommendations, and the ability to dig into the recommendations and share them with your stakeholders.
Cost Anomaly Detection	Helps you identify significant changes in your cloud spend and track down where they are coming from to take the necessary action to get them under control.
Cloud Cost Optimization API Capabilities	Provides links to the Cloud Cost Optimization APIs.