Monthly Actual vs. Budgeted Spend Report
This feature allows you to set up scheduled reports that will provide monthly actual vs budgeted cloud cost across all resources in the Billing Center(s) you specify, delivered to any email addresses you specify.
This section describes:
Monthly Actual vs. Budgeted Spend Report Functionality
The scheduled report emails provide a report with a bar chart of actual vs budgeted spend for the current month.
Best Practice:We recommend running this report on a weekly cadence and applying it to your primary account.
Important:The monthly budget inputs are compared against the current month's actual cloud costs of the applied feature. As a best practice, terminate and reconfigure reports on an annual basis to reflect the current year's monthly budgeted cloud costs.
Note:The last 3 days of data in the current week or month will contain incomplete data.
Note:The account you apply the feature to is unimportant as Cloud Cost Optimization metrics are scoped to the Organization.
Monthly Actual vs. Budgeted Spend Report Cost Metrics
There are four cost metrics to choose from.
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Unamortized Unblended—One-time and upfront costs are shown at the time of purchase. (AWS Only) Savings from reserved instances are applied first to matching instances in the account where it was purchased. |
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Amortized Unblended—One-time and upfront costs are spread evenly over the term of the item purchased. (AWS Only) Savings from reserved instances are applied first to matching instances in the account where it was purchased. |
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Unamortized Blended—One-time and upfront costs are shown at the time of purchase. (AWS Only) Saving from reserved instances are shared equally by all matching instances in all accounts. |
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Amortized Blended—One-time and upfront costs are spread evenly over the term of the item purchased. (AWS Only) Saving from reserved instances are shared equally by all matching instances in all accounts. |
Monthly Actual vs. Budgeted Spend Report Input Parameters
This feature requires the following input parameters during configuration.
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Email list—Email addresses of the recipients you wish to notify |
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Billing Center List—List of top-level Billing Center names you want to report on. Names must be exactly as shown in Cloud Cost Optimization. Leave the field blank to report on all top-level Billing Centers. |
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January Budgeted Cost —January budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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February Budgeted Cost —February budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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March Budgeted Cost—March budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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April Budgeted Cost—April budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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May Budgeted Cost—May budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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June Budgeted Cost—June budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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July Budgeted Cost—July budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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August Budgeted Cost—August budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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September Budgeted Cost —September budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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October Budgeted Cost—October budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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November Budgeted Cost—November budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
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December Budgeted Cost—December budgeted cost for corresponding Billing Center |
Monthly Actual vs. Budgeted Spend Report Required Permissions
Important:This feature requires permissions to access Cloud Cost Optimization resources. Before applying this feature, add the View cloud costs role for the user hoping to leverage this functionality. The role should be applied to any individual accounts where the feature will run, or to the entire organization to apply to all accounts. For complete descriptions of each role available in Flexera One, see Flexera One Roles. For more information on modifying roles, see the “Editing User Groups to Apply Roles at Organization or Account Level” section of Creating and Managing User Groups.
Monthly Actual vs. Budgeted Spend Report Supported Clouds