# Azure and AWS Budgets with CloudSpend

**Keep your budgets in check with our cloud cost optimization tool.**

Create budget alerts and set up recurring budgets that run monthly, quarterly, yearly, MTD, or YTD to notify your finance and engineering teams about cost overruns.

## Proactively manage your cloud costs with budgets

### Prudent

### Configure budgets based on the business needs

Create a budget policy that defines what entity the budget applies to. Associate your budget policy with the budget of an AWS or Azure account, a tagged resource, or an already created business unit.

![Configure budgets based on the business needs](https://www.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/cloudspend/cs-budget-accounts.svg)

### Intelligent

### Compare the forecasted budget amount

Get a comparison of the current and budgeted amounts as well as of the forecasted and budgeted amounts using the overview. You can also view and configure settings related to the budget.

![Compare the forecasted budget amount](https://www.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/cloudspend/cs-budget-overview.svg)

### Periodicity

### Get a periodic view of the budgets

View the Period, Unit, Budget, and get notified for your account. Share the budget details as a PDF or as an email using the Share button. Edit or delete the budget details with the Edit/Delete button.

![Get a periodic view of the budgets](https://www.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/cloudspend/cs-budget-thresholds.svg)

### Accountable

### Schedule reports for informed decisions

Schedule four reports from the budget details section for the budget dashboard, which includes the list of all budgets, the budget details page of individual budget entries, and recent alerts raised for your budgets.

![Schedule reports for informed decisions](https://www.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/cloudspend/cs-forecast-alerts.svg)

## Featured Resources

### Blog

### The latest on cloud cost management

Discover the latest insights and updates on cloud costs from the CloudSpend team.

[Read more](https://blogs.manageengine.com/itom/cloudspend)

### Articles

### In-depth guides to FinOps

Go deep on cost optimization, tagging, governance, AI spend, and more, with practical guidance you can act on.

[Read articles](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/articles/)

### FinOps Glossary

### Cloud cost terms, made clear

Look up the FinOps, cloud cost, and AI spend terms your team keeps running into, explained in plain language.

[Browse the glossary](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/finops-glossary/)

### User Guide

### Help and documentation

Get set up quickly and learn how to use every CloudSpend feature, step by step.

[Read more](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/help/budget.html)