# Cloud cost control with CloudSpend

Take charge of your cloud spending with real-time insights, budget alerts, and automated cost-saving recommendations.

## What is cloud cost control?

Cloud cost control is the ongoing effort to monitor, manage, and reduce cloud spending. CloudSpend equips you with the tools to take command of your cloud bills through real-time dashboards, cost anomaly detection, usage-based recommendations, and budget alerts. You can drill down into costs by service, region, or account, and quickly identify underutilized resources that can be optimized or eliminated. With proactive controls like spend thresholds and chargeback reporting, CloudSpend helps you avoid bill shocks, promote internal accountability, and keep your cloud operations lean and financially efficient.

## Stay in control of your cloud budget

### Real-time cost monitoring

**Empowered**

Track your cloud expenses in real time across services, accounts, and regions. CloudSpend gives you full visibility into where every dollar is going.

### Intelligent cost recommendations

**Insights**

Leverage AI-powered insights to identify idle instances, overprovisioned services, or underutilized resources that can be optimized or shut down.

### Budgets and control

**Alerting**

Set spend thresholds and get notified when costs exceed your defined budgets. Take action before surprises turn into billing shocks.

### Chargeback and showback reports

**Accountability**

Break down cloud spend by business units or teams, and generate reports to drive accountability and internal cost transparency.

## Featured Resources

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

**Blog**

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)

### In-depth guides to FinOps

**Articles**

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/)

### Cloud cost terms, made clear

**FinOps Glossary**

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/)

### Help and documentation

**User Guide**

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

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