MCP support across modules with tool grouping
MCP now supports all CloudSpend modules. Use tool grouping to select related tools, understand shared tool overlap, and get more accurate insights by querying across components based on enabled tools.
New features and enhancements in CloudSpend
MCP now supports all CloudSpend modules. Use tool grouping to select related tools, understand shared tool overlap, and get more accurate insights by querying across components based on enabled tools.
Automate cloud cost governance with Rule Engine. Create rules to apply tagging actions, ensure accurate cost allocation, and track execution history. Reduce manual effort and maintain consistent cost data across accounts and cost centers.
Business Units are now called Cost Centers across CloudSpend. This is a naming update only, with no changes to functionality. You can continue to group, track, and analyze costs across accounts and teams as before.
Understand cloud cost beyond total spend with the Unit Economics report. Analyze cost per unit across services and regions, identify inefficiencies faster, and drill down to resource-level insights to make more accurate cost optimization decisions.
Easily organize your CloudSpend configurations with Labels. Group accounts, budgets, checks, and reports under a shared context to view related elements in one place. Labels improve visibility across modules, reduce manual effort, and help you manage complex environments with better clarity and control.
Define step based limits with custom severity, priority, and notifications to track spend progressively using the Multi-Step budget feature. Improve cost visibility, enable timely action, and strengthen cloud cost control across accounts, services, and teams.
Stay on top of your cloud spend with a weekly summary email in CloudSpend. Get a clear view of cost trends, recommendations, optimization insights, reservations, and anomalies. Each section includes links to the console so you can review details and take action when needed.
Identify under-utilized Azure virtual machines and uncover clear right-sizing opportunities with the Azure Optimizer Report. Reduce unnecessary VM spend, make informed optimization decisions, and keep Azure costs aligned with actual workload needs using this report.
Track non-compliant resources in your cloud accounts with Governance Checks. This feature helps you review your cloud resources and highlight anything that does not meet your compliance conditions and maintain a clean and governed environment.
Obtain cloud cost data directly from AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration. Ask questions in natural language to explore spend trends, detect anomalies, and view account-level insights without switching between dashboards.
CloudSpend now supports a multi-portal setup for MSPs and enterprises. You can set up branded customer portals and manage access, billing, and settings from your master MSP account. Workspaces help you separate cost data and configuration for each department, project, or client, making cost governance simple and consistent across the organization.
Track and maintain tagging standards across your cloud resources with Tagging Compliance report. View auto-generated and custom reports, easily schedule recurring reports to monitor compliance trends and ensure consistent tag governance across accounts.
Track your Azure Reservations usage with the Azure Reservations Report. Gain visibility into reservation utilization and coverage across services and plan smarter future purchases. Use the insights to optimize spending and align reserved capacity with actual usage.
Identify underutilized EC2 instances and obtain right-sizing options to reduce cloud spend with the EC2 Optimizer Report. View optimization metrics, cost savings, and instance recommendations, and make informed decisions based on instance-level cost comparisons and utilization data.
CloudSpend introduces updated best practice recommendations. for Azure, designed to help you reduce costs, boost reliability, and improve security. Leverage these proactive suggestions to fine-tune your cloud environment and drive optimal performance.
Get a detailed breakdown of reservation utilization and coverage, optimize dynamic workloads, and plan future purchases strategically with the AWS Reservations Report. Identify underutilized reservations, improve strategic planning, and maximize AWS savings!
Assign custom roles with read, write, or delete access to cost data, ensuring compliance and preventing unauthorized changes with the role-based access control (RBAC) feature. Manage user permissions efficiently using visual or JSON formats for seamless collaboration and cost control.
Stay ahead with the latest best practice checks for GCP services, such as Cloud DNS, Managed Instance Group, and Cloud SQL. CloudSpend now offers over 100 recommendations to help you improve cost efficiency, availability, and security across your GCP resources.
Obtain cost transparency, assign ownership, and identify optimization opportunities with the Cost Allocation report. This comprehensive report provides a detailed breakdown of your cloud spending at various levels for better financial visibility.
Check out the new best practice checks added for services such as Azure VM, Azure Load Balancer, and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. Identify potential cost savings, performance improvements, and security enhancements effortlessly with the best practice checks added for Azure services.
The Alert Contact role restricts users to receiving only CloudSpend email alerts, such as budget notifications, reports, and other updates. They will not have access to the CloudSpend web client or API.
Optimize your GCP resources with the most up-to-date best practice checks. Explore the newest recommendations for services such as Cloud Run Functions, Cloud Storage, and Filestore. With CloudSpend, you now have access to more than 70 checks focused on cost optimization, availability, and security for GCP.
Discover the latest GCP best practice checks for Compute Engine VM, Cloud SQL, and Kubernetes Cluster. These checks help you fine-tune your GCP resources with recommendations to enhance cost efficiency, fault tolerance, and performance.
Effortlessly configure and manage budgets and anomalies for your cost accounts to ensure proactive cloud cost management across accounts, business units, and reports with Checks. This feature helps in the timely detection of irregularities in cloud expenditures, enabling you to stay on top of your cloud expenses.
Consolidate and customize all your cloud cost data in one unified view with the Custom Reports feature. Gain real-time insights, create tailored widgets, and streamline chargeback and showback management across your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
The Recommendations Report offers a detailed analysis of cloud usage across AWS, Azure, and GCP, providing actionable insights to optimize cloud costs, enhance fault tolerance, and boost performance. Recommendations are categorized into Cost, Availability, and Security, enabling users to improve their cloud environment efficiently.
Seamlessly connect your Azure accounts with CloudSpend using Exports providing a more streamlined and efficient way to analyze and optimize your cloud costs.
Manage your multi-cloud expenses effectively by identifying savings opportunities and cost optimization strategies with the Savings Report. This report helps you understand how much you've saved through Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and other cost-saving measures, enabling you to fine-tune your cloud strategies.
Optimize your AWS cloud costs with the Cost Category report Obtain critical visibility into your AWS cloud costs and understand where your budget is being spent across different categories and segments by leveraging the auto-created Cost Category report. It also enables you to optimize resource utilization and make data-driven decisions to improve your cloud operations.
The Resource Inventory report generates an up-to-date inventory containing all cloud resources from all accounts and across all providers to enable you to identify unused and costly resources. Receive a comprehensive view of your cloud resources to achieve greater control over your cloud spending.
Gain a comprehensive view of all your users and user groups in one place with the enhanced User Management dashboard. Easily add new users or user groups to your organization for better management and collaboration.
The Summary Report provides a comprehensive overview of all active cost accounts in CloudSpend and helps you understand your multi-cloud spending. You can set a custom date range, view cloud discounts, and schedule reports for your cost accounts. The Summary Report supports PDF and CSV formats.
Get detailed visibility into your GCP usage patterns, resource utilization, and cost drivers with CloudSpend-GCP integration. Save your GCP cloud bills and gain effective chargebacks in a multi-cloud setup by grouping and understanding cloud costs.
Receive comprehensive reports that provide actionable insights into detected cloud cost anomalies with the Zia Anomaly Report. It also enables you to identify unusual spikes in your cloud costs and take proactive decisions to avoid cost overruns.
Obtain automatically created, out-of-the-box reports for your organization after parsing your cloud bills with the Reports feature. The automatically created reports based on tags such as Region, Service, and Linked Account provide you with the previous month's spending, the current month-to-date accrued cost, and the forecasted cost for every active, integrated cost account.
Keep track and obtain a real-time count of your resources, using the new Number of Resources widget in the CloudSpend Accounts dashboard. It provides the total number of resources in all your cost accounts for the previous and the current month.
Identify and manage the linked account, region, and service incurring the highest cost in the current month with the Top Spending widget. You can also get the cost data for the past six months with the graph widget. The Top Spending widget and graphical data are available in CloudSpend Accounts and Business Units dashboard.
Obtain deep insights about your cloud services and track cloud bills at your finger tips with the new CloudSpend mobile application. Use the CloudSpend mobile app to keep track of your cloud infrastructure on the go and get instant alerts via push notifications on your phone.The CloudSpend mobile application is available for both Android and iOS mobile devices.
CloudSpend now supports CSV format for schedule reports.Use reports to analyze the cost per user, team, project, and resource type based on consumption, and view them in either PDF or CSV formats.
Stay alerted and manage multiple notifications at once with the new Notifications feature. You can identify read and unread notifications, mark them all as read, and even change the status of read messages to unread.
Estimate your cloud bills for your AWS and Azure accounts based on historical data collected from the past 90 days, and view them in the Accounts and the Business Unit dashboards, the Budget Details page, and the Resource Explorer view. Observe the forecast graph and plan your resource utilization to avoid cost overruns with the forecasting feature.
Save your Azure cloud bills and gain effective chargebacks in a multi-cloud setup by grouping and understanding cloud costs. Control your cloud usage and get the most out of it with CloudSpend Azure.
Integrate your CloudSpend account with Site24x7 to:
Use the new Account Settings option in the CloudSpend Admin tab to customize your reports as per your preference. You can also integrate your CloudSpend account with Site24x7 to automate actions, use the supported third-party integrations, and manage budget notifications in Site24x7 Alarms.
Obtain a bird's eye view of all the information related to your budgets.
Get monthly, quarterly, or yearly historical data related to your budget based on the configured period type using the History section. Use the amount spent during that period (Usage Value), budgeted value, forecasted value, deviation from the budgeted amount, the pattern of spending, budget breaches, and the fluctuations from the budgeted amount to plan.
Use Forecast (Month) to set the budgets based on the values obtained from the forecast predictions. This can help to ensure that the budget isn't exceeding or dropping below the forecasted amount for the month.
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