A consolidated view of all the profiles and policies that have been set up for your CloudSpend account can be viewed here.
A Report Profile in CloudSpend is a set of predefined configurations that determine how and when a report is generated and delivered. It lets you define details like report frequency, data period, time zone, and delivery time, ensuring reports are shared with the right people at the right intervals.
Creating a report profile helps automate report scheduling, maintain consistency in reporting cycles, and save time by eliminating the need to configure report settings each time manually.
Tags are a powerful feature used to organize your cloud costs. Create customized tags using logical operations based on the usage type of an account. Tag Profile provide customized labels that group user-defined parameters such as resourceLocation, service, resource, resourceGroup, meter category, and meter subcategory.
For example, consider a project that contains all of the services applicable for an application. One set of tags could represent the components of that application (i.e. front end and back end) and another set of tags could represent common costs across applications (i.e. development, security, and testing).
The Budget Profile section lets you view or add budgets for your CloudSpend accounts at an account level or a business-unit level. An advantage of adding a budget profile is that you get to reuse the same budget across multiple teams. By setting up targets for your linked accounts or business units, you can continuously track your cloud expenditure, and choose to receive an email notification when a team overshoots a budget.
An Anomaly Profile in CloudSpend helps you detect and manage unexpected cost fluctuations across your cloud accounts. It can be assigned to specific cost accounts, business units, or tagged resources to monitor irregular spending patterns and prevent budget overruns. By reusing an anomaly profile, you can maintain consistency in anomaly detection settings and reduce manual setup time. This improves financial governance, supports better cost control, and helps optimize overall cloud spending.
A Governance Profile in CloudSpend defines the compliance conditions used to identify non compliant resources across your cloud accounts. It can be applied to Accounts, Business Units, or Reports to ensure every governance check follows the same standards. By reusing a profile, you keep compliance rules consistent, reduce repeated setup, and simplify ongoing governance. This helps maintain a clear policy framework, improves visibility into compliance gaps, and supports stronger control across your cloud environment.