# Cloud governance in CloudSpend

Stay in control of your cloud environment with policies, access controls, and cost accountability from a single dashboard.

## What is cloud governance?

Cloud governance is the set of rules, policies, and processes that ensure your cloud usage aligns with business goals, security standards, and budget expectations. In CloudSpend, cloud governance goes beyond simple monitoring. It empowers you to define policies, implement access controls, enforce tagging standards, and track compliance across your AWS and Azure accounts. With real-time visibility and organizational mapping, you can reduce shadow IT, prevent cost overruns, and drive accountability across teams. Whether you’re managing a single project or a multi-cloud enterprise, CloudSpend makes governance simple, scalable, and effective.

### See also

[Request a Demo](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/request-demo.html)

[View Blog](https://blogs.manageengine.com/itom/cloudspend)

[View Pricing](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/pricing.html)

### Explore CloudSpend

[Cloud Budgeting](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/features/budgets.html)

[Checks](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/features/checks.html)

[Tagging compliance reports](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/features/tagging-compliance-reports.html)

## Enabling governance for businesses

### Policies

#### Policy-driven governance for cloud resources

Create and enforce rules around cloud usage, cost thresholds, and service-specific policies. Whether you’re managing one account or multiple, CloudSpend helps you stay proactive with smart policy controls.

### Access

#### Role-based access control

Ensure the right people have access to the right data. Set granular permissions based on roles, whether it’s finance, engineering, or DevOps. This enables teams to view only what they need and nothing more.

### Standards

#### Compliance monitoring and alerts

Stay compliant with internal policies and industry standards. CloudSpend tracks adherence to tagging conventions, budget limits, and usage patterns, alerting you when policies are breached.

### Visibility

#### BUs for cost accountability

Map cloud spend to departments or teams using business units (BUs). Visualize costs across BUs, enable internal chargebacks, and drive cost-conscious behavior at every level.

## Strengthen cloud governance with role-based access controls

Discover how CloudSpend’s role-based access empowers teams with secure, efficient, and accountable cloud cost management.

[Read More](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/blog/rbac-in-manageengine-cloudspend-empowering-teams-with-secure-access.html)

## Featured Resources

### Blog

#### ManageEngine CloudSpend has launched its Reports feature: See what's new

ManageEngine CloudSpend is a cloud cost management tool and it has launched custom reports feature to view and analyze actionable insights.

[Read more](https://blogs.manageengine.com/cloudspend/2023/07/05/manageengine-cloudspend-custom-reports.html)

### 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/)