| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Data Sources | Cloud Tenant Setup |
| Amazon Web Services | ||
| Google Cloud Platform | ||
| Microsoft 365 | ||
| Microsoft Azure |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Pools | Custom Groups |
| Resource allocation | Allocate resources by name, ID, tags, data source, resource type, and region. | Allocate resources by tags or virtual tags. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Pools + Resources | Dashboard + Reports |
| Customizable dashboards | Configuration of tiles to represent data. | |
| Cost drill-down | Ability to filter data using categories (such as service, region, resource type, data source, owner, pool, and more) and periods (daily, weekly, or monthly). See Resources. | Ability to filter data using categories (such as platform type, provider, tenant, subscription, custom group, provider, resource name, tag, and more) and periods (half-year, monthly). See Reports. |
| Detailed reports | Reports can be customized to focus on specific metrics or time periods. They can also be downloaded, emailed, or published to SFTP. | |
| Consolidated consumption | Costs are displayed on a chart (bar or linear) with details placed in a table. See Resources. | Different chart types (such as bar, linear, area, horizontal bar, and pie) and tables (table, summary table) are used to display costs. See Reports. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Recommendations | Recommendations + Cloud Cost Optimization |
| High level overview | Main data overview contains information like total possible monthly savings, check time log, savings with commitments and savings on storage. | Overview of savings breakdown by Strategy, Total Predicted Cost, and Total Predicted Savings for 1 or 3 years. |
| Recommendations filtering | Based on categories (such as Savings, Security, or Critical) and applicable cloud provider services. | Based on categories (such as Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, or Security) and applicable cloud provider services. |
| Recommendation options | Information with short description, assigned category, affected cloud providers, affected resources, potential savings (in total and per each resource), actions (download report, settings, exclude pools, pin) and settings (each recommendation has its own conditions that can be updated during every auto check). | Shows Cost Optimization Strategy with predicted savings in the chosen currency or as percentage. Also includes a description of the purpose of chosen change. |
| Legacy data | Access to Archived recommendations. | Access to Realised and Unrealised recommendations. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Tagging Policies | Tags |
| New tags setup | Tagging policy must specify if tag is required, prohibited, or if there's a correlation. Resources affected by the policy are chosen based on filters, such as suggested filters, data source, pool, region, service, resource type, resource state, with recommendations, with violated constraints, paid network traffic from/to. | Allows you to manage and create tags. You can also specify the rule, name, add a new tag, or group as a new tag. You can also select an existing tag or create a new tag if it doesn't exist. Additionally, you can filter resources based on criteria, such as resource type, region, service, and more. Additional options include 'With recommendations', 'With violated constraints', and 'Paid network traffic from/to'. Resources are displayed in a table containing columns, such as Resource Name, Data Source, Pool, Region, Service Name, Resource Type, Resource State, and Software Asset. |
| Virtual tags | | |
| Uploading tags to cloud provider | Manage tags in manual or automated Resource rules based on resource properties, option to write tags back to vendor. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Quotas and Budgets | Budgets |
| Cloud budget manager | Tabular view when creating a new quota or budget policy is possible. Each policy allows you to review resources grouped by configured filters. | Configurable views to display Consumption and Utilization grouped by Custom Groups or Provider. |
| New budget setup | Budget policy must contain the type, such as resource quota, recurring budget, or expiring budget. Resources affected by the policy are chosen based on filters, such as suggested filters, data source, pool, region, service, resource type, resource state, with recommendations, with violated constraints, tags, and paid network traffic from/to. | Allows you to set up a budget by specifying the parent group name, name, total amount in USD, start date, end date, and owner email address. Resources affected by the budget are chosen based on filters such as suggested filters, data source, pool, region, service, resource type, resource state, with recommendations, with violated constraints, tags, paid network traffic from/to. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Chargebacks | Chargebacks |
| Chargebacks | Allows you to distribute cloud spend to the relevant business units and cost centers across your organization. You can select the account for which you want to add chargebacks by specifying details such as date, amount, and reason, and add multiple chargebacks. The form includes a table listing of your existing chargebacks. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Anomaly Detection | Alerts |
| New anomaly detection setup | The anomaly detection policy must specify the type, such as Resource Count or Expenses. Resources affected by the policy are chosen based on filters such as suggested filters, data source, pool, region, service, resource type, resource state, with recommendations, with violated constraints, tags, paid network traffic from/to. | Three types of cloud consumption alerts are supported, including Spike Alerts, Overage Alerts, or Reserved Instance Utilization. Spike alerting identifies usage anomalies in Azure or AWS environments. Overage alerting notifies you if consumption exceeds defined values. Reserved Instance alerting monitors the utilization of reservation purchases. |
| Manage anomaly detection | List of all implemented policies with their names, visualization of the status, short description and applied filters. | List of implemented alerts with their names, type, visibility, last run, along with the most important columns to quickly grasp the context of the definition. |
| Anomaly detection details | Detailed information about the policy together with detailed history showing all historical violations. | The preview section is a graphical representation of the alert, highlighting the time at which it occurs. You can interact with this chart, which includes 'hover-over text' when viewing a vertical bar in the chart. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Events | N/A |
| List of historical events | General list of events with simple filtering by All, Info, Warning, Error. You can also check event details, such as exact date, object name, object type, and short description. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | User Management | N/A |
| Roles and permissions | Supports four types of permissions, including Organization Manager, Manager, Engineer, and Member. | User management (Moved to Marketplace in v2) |
| Name | Organization | Collaboration Site |
| Multi-organization approach | A user can be a part of different organizations and can switch between them using the Organization menu. | A user can be a part of different organizations with different role and can switch between them. |
| Document collaboration | Store and share large files conveniently. |
| Feature | FinOps for Cloud | Cloud Spend Management |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Settings | Alerting |
| Reporting | ||
| Alerts | ||
| Notification settings | The Organization Manager can change notification settings. Notifications can be enabled or disabled from these modules: FinOps, Policy Alerts, Recommendations, System notifications, and Account management. | Supports individual notifications with an option to share the notifications with other users. |
| Notification service | Portal only, email and/or SMS |