Executive Dashboard
Cloud spend overview across all providers, MTD.
Total MTD Spend
$4,284,592
Forecast to EOQ
$12.8M
Savings Opportunities
$342K
Active Anomalies
3
+$45K unexpected daily spend
Spend by Cloud Provider
Top Business Units
| Payments | $1.2M | +5% |
| Search | $850K | -2% |
| Identity | $640K | 0% |
| Checkout | $520K | +8% |
| Logistics | $430K | -1% |
Practitioner Dashboard
Operational view — cost drivers, unallocated spend, tagging diagnostics, efficiency, and variance.
Total Cloud Spend MTD
$520,000
Unallocated Spend
$11,428
Tagging Compliance
92%
3 dimensions < 80% in Azure
Identified Savings
$14,200/mo
27 resources flagged
Top services by spend
MTD · PoP deltaTop resource types by spend
MTD · PoP deltaUnallocated spend · root cause
Untagged resources by type and subscription. Used to scope a tagging-enforcement policy and assign owners.
| Resource Type | Count | First Seen | MTD | % of Unallocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKS Node Pools | 3 | Oct 02 | $4,820.00 | 42% |
| EC2 Spot Fleet | 1 | Oct 04 | $3,140.00 | 27% |
| GCS Egress + Buckets | 12 | Oct 07 | $1,910.00 | 17% |
| Lambda + API Gateway | 6 | Oct 09 | $1,558.00 | 14% |
| Subscription / Account | Provider | Count | First Seen | MTD | % of Unallocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| azure-checkout-prod | Azure | 8 | Oct 02 | $5,640.00 | 49% |
| aws-checkout-batch-883201 | AWS | 4 | Oct 04 | $3,140.00 | 27% |
| gcp-search-egress-prod | GCP | 12 | Oct 07 | $1,910.00 | 17% |
| aws-checkout-edge-functions | AWS | 6 | Oct 09 | $738.00 | 7% |
Tagging compliance · by provider and dimension
Required tags: CostCenter, Environment, Owner, ApplicationResource efficiency signals
In active scope · review in OptimizationActive variance diagnostics
| Event | Cost Impact | Top Resource Type | Top Service | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkout unallocated spend accelerating | +$11,428 | AKS Node Pools | Azure AKS | Open in Cost Explorer |
| Search egress over budget | +$4,210 | Network / Egress | GCP CDN | Open in Cost Explorer |
| Logistics Lambda invocation spike | +$2,840 | Serverless Functions | AWS Lambda | Open in Cost Explorer |
Payments Core Compute Costs
Resource-level drill-down for current month.
Total Compute Spend
$142,850
Production: $0 (0%)
Tagging Compliance
8% of spend ($11,428) missing mandatory tags
Daily Spend Trend
Resource Allocation
Showing 3 resources in scope| Resource Name | Provider | Env · Region | Signals | MoM Delta | MTD Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unallocated Spend (Missing Tags) 4 resource groups |
Mixed | Mixed | Tagged 0% | +45.2% | $11,428.00 |
|
Operational drill · Unallocated breakdown Untagged resources by type, subscription, and first-seen date in current scope. Projected monthly run rate $16,600 → $24,200 if +45% trend continues Resource Type Subscription / Project First Seen MTD Cost |
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| Total Compute | 92% tagged | +8.4% | $142,850.00 | ||
Budgets & Tracking
Manage budget baselines across business units and cost centers.
Total Monitored Budget
$18.5M
Across 24 active budget policies
Breached / At Risk
2 / 4
Requires immediate attention
Pending Approvals
3
Rebaseline requests awaiting sign-off
Active Budgets
Payments BU - All Clouds
Breached (104%)Run-rate exceeds budget
Forecasted to hit $1.35M by EOM due to new EC2 workloads.
Checkout App - Compute
Warning (92%)Baseline Adjustment Suggested
Historical trend indicates structurally higher baseline (+15%).
Approval required
Search BU - All Clouds
Healthy (65%)On Track
Projected EOM: 88%
Forecast Management
Rolled-up projections and forecast adjustments for Q4.
Q4 Total Organization Forecast $12,850,000
Payments
Search
Identity
Checkout
Logistics
Recent Adjustments
| Status | Scope | Driver / Rationale | Requester | Approver | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suggested | Payments BU |
Sustained Volume Increase Run-rate variance detected Oct 24. Expected to persist through EOQ. |
FinOps System | Awaiting Approval | +$150,000 |
| Pending | Identity BU |
New GKE Cluster Deployment Pre-deployment estimate #EST-992 for new OAuth service. |
Sarah Chen (Eng) | Awaiting Finance | +$45,000 |
| Applied | Logistics BU |
Storage Lifecycle Policy Implemented 30-day transition to cold storage across S3/GCS. |
David Kim (FinOps) | Elena Rostova (VP) | -$85,000 |
| Applied | Search BU |
Reserved Instance Purchase 3-year commitment on Azure VM scale sets. |
David Kim (FinOps) | Elena Rostova (VP) | -$120,000 |
Variance Intelligence
Automated root-cause attribution for significant spend shifts.
Recent Events
Compute Spike in Payments BU
Storage Decrease - Log Archival
Network Egress Spike - Identity
Compute Spike in Payments BU
Impact
Spend Trajectory
Where (Scope)
What Changed
Why (Root Cause)
Automated scaling event triggered by sustained high load on the Fraud-Detection-API. Node count increased from baseline of 12 to 48 over a 6-hour period, accompanied by proportional EBS volume provisioning.
Suggested Forecast Adjustment
Traffic analysis suggests this is a sustained baseline shift, not a temporary spike. Recommend increasing EOY forecast for Payments BU to avoid budget breach alerts.
Planning & Estimates
Pre-deployment estimates and estimate-versus-actual accuracy across the portfolio.
Open Estimates
27
across 8 BUs
Forecast Accuracy (last 3 cycles)
92.4%
+3.1pp vs prior
Estimated Annualized Spend
$8.6M
open workloads
Estimates Past SLA
4
Estimate vs Actual — Last 6 Closed Workloads
| Workload | BU | Provider | Estimated | Actual (90d) | Variance % | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| payments-fraud-v2 | Payments | AWS | $142,000 | $156,800 | +10.4% | Over |
| search-vector-index | Search | GCP | $86,500 | $84,200 | -2.7% | Within Tolerance |
| identity-mfa-rollout | Identity | Azure | $54,000 | $58,900 | +9.1% | Over |
| checkout-cart-cache | Checkout | AWS | $38,000 | $52,400 | +37.9% | Over |
| logistics-routing-ml | Logistics | GCP | $112,000 | $108,200 | -3.4% | Within Tolerance |
| payments-ledger-batch | Payments | Azure | $76,500 | $79,100 | +3.4% | Within Tolerance |
Open Estimates Queue
| Workload | BU | Owner | Submitted | Est. Annualized | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| checkout-streaming-v3 | Checkout | maria.lopez | Oct 9 | $420,000 | In Review |
| search-vector-v2 | Search | dev.kim | Oct 11 | $310,000 | Draft |
| payments-3ds-eu | Payments | rohit.shah | Oct 12 | $185,000 | In Review |
| identity-passkeys | Identity | jules.ng | Oct 12 | $96,000 | Approved |
| logistics-edge-cache | Logistics | hank.ortiz | Oct 13 | $74,000 | Draft |
Forecast Accuracy Trend (last 6 cycles)
Optimization & Savings
Potential savings, realized savings, and recommendation adoption by business unit.
Potential Savings (open)
$342K
Realized Savings (YTD)
$1.84M
+$420K vs Q2
Avg Time to Realize
14 days
down from 21
Adoption Rate
68%
+6pp vs last quarter
Top Recommendations
| Recommendation | Resource | Provider | Potential Monthly | Effort | Priority | Owner | Status | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rightsize Checkout AKS VMSS Standard_D16s_v3 → D8s_v3 From Cost Explorer | aks-checkout-prod-vmss | Azure | $2,400 | Low | High | checkout-eng | Open | |
| Rightsize 24 EC2 m5.2xlarge → m5.xlarge | aws-prod-payments-asg | AWS | $18,400 | Low | High | platform-eng | Open | |
| Purchase 1y Savings Plan compute (us-east-1) | account 8847 | AWS | $14,200 | Low | High | finops | In Progress | |
| Delete 312 orphaned EBS volumes | aws-prod-search | AWS | $9,800 | Low | Med | platform-eng | Realized | |
| Rightsize Azure SQL S4 → S2 (3 DBs) | sql-identity-prod | Azure | $6,400 | Med | Med | identity-team | Open | |
| Move 18TB to GCS Nearline | gcs-analytics-archive | GCP | $5,900 | Low | Med | data-platform | In Progress | |
| Stop 47 idle AKS dev nodes overnight | aks-dev-cluster | Azure | $4,700 | Med | Low | dev-platform | Open | |
| Reserve GCE n2-standard-8 (1y) | gce-search-fleet | GCP | $3,800 | Low | Low | finops | Realized | |
| Consolidate 4 duplicate NAT gateways | vpc-prod-payments | AWS | $2,100 | High | Low | platform-eng | Open |
Realized Savings by BU
Savings by Category
Approvals Queue
Pending budget rebaselines, forecast adjustments, and high-impact savings actions awaiting your review.
Awaiting You
7
your review queue
Total Pending (org-wide)
14
across 6 BUs
Avg Time to Decision
1.8 days
vs 3.2 last quarter
Pending Approvals
| Type | Item | Scope | Requester | Submitted | Magnitude | Materiality | Rationale | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budget | Q4 rebaseline +$420K | Checkout · cart-svc | maria.lopez | Oct 11 | +$420K | High | Black Friday traffic forecast revised +28% by demand-planning. | |
| Forecast | Increase Q4 forecast Search +6% | Search · vector-idx | dev.kim | Oct 12 | +$310K | Med | GCP TPU pricing increase landed Oct 5; passing through to Q4. | |
| Savings | Approve EC2 Savings Plan 1y commit | Payments · prod | finops | Oct 12 | -$170K/yr | High | Coverage gap on m5 family; 92% utilization sustained 90d. | |
| Budget | Reduce Logistics Q4 baseline | Logistics · routing | hank.ortiz | Oct 13 | -$80K | Low | Edge cache rollout reduced egress; rebaselining downward. | |
| Forecast | EOY Identity forecast +4.1% | Identity · auth | jules.ng | Oct 13 | +$96K | Med | Passkeys launch shifted to Nov; absorbing extra compute weeks. | |
| Forecast | Q1 2027 forecast Search -2.3% | Search · ranking | dev.kim | Oct 13 | -$72K | Low | Model compression deployed; sustained 18% inference cost drop. | |
| Savings | Delete orphaned EBS 312 vols | Search · prod | platform-eng | Oct 14 | -$9.8K/mo | Low | Idle >60d, no attached instance, no snapshots referencing. | |
| Budget | Emergency Q4 add | Payments · ledger | rohit.shah | Oct 14 | +$240K | High | Regulatory audit infra spin-up (SOX); approved by CFO offline. |