Pure Storage solutions provide high-performance enterprise storage for business-critical workloads across cloud environments. Storage resources are commonly organized into arrays, pods, and replication groups to improve data availability, simplify storage management, and support disaster recovery strategies.
Although Pure Storage manages storage resources, the associated cloud costs originate from the underlying cloud infrastructure, including storage services, compute resources, networking, and replication traffic. As organizations expand their storage environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, identifying the cloud costs associated with individual storage deployments becomes increasingly important.
CloudSpend provides a unified view of Pure-Storage-related cloud spending by identifying resources using predefined Pure Storage tags. It associates cloud billing data with tagged storage resources, enabling you to monitor storage costs, understand resource utilization, and optimize cloud spending across your storage infrastructure.
Pure Storage cost management is the process of tracking, analyzing, and optimizing cloud expenses associated with Pure Storage resources.
CloudSpend uses Pure-Storage-specific tags applied to cloud resources to associate infrastructure costs with logical storage deployments. This enables you to analyze cloud spending based on storage arrays, pods, and replication groups instead of reviewing infrastructure costs independently.
Effective Pure Storage cost management involves:
CloudSpend simplifies Pure Storage cost management across AWS, Azure, and GCP by connecting cloud billing data with tagged Pure Storage resources.
Instead of manually identifying which cloud resources belong to individual storage deployments, CloudSpend automatically discovers resources using predefined Pure Storage tags and groups the associated cloud costs under logical storage entities.
This enables you to:
CloudSpend also distinguishes Pure Storage costs from the cloud infrastructure supporting storage operations. This enables you to determine whether increased spending is driven by storage growth, replication workloads, or the infrastructure hosting your storage resources.
Trend analysis and anomaly detection help identify unexpected changes in storage costs. For example, increased replication activity between storage environments or rapid storage growth can result in higher infrastructure costs. CloudSpend highlights these changes so they can be investigated promptly.
You can also configure budgets and alerts for tagged Pure Storage resources, allowing teams to monitor storage spending proactively and respond before costs exceed expected thresholds.
By organizing cloud billing data using Pure-Storage-specific tags, CloudSpend transforms infrastructure costs into meaningful storage insights that help optimize utilization, improve capacity planning, and control cloud spending.
CloudSpend uses the following entities to tag and track your Pure Storage resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
| Report category | Report display name | Description | Tag key | Tag value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pure Storage | Pure Storage Array ID | The Pure Storage array identifier. | pure:array-id | <array-id> |
| Pure Storage | Pure Storage Pod ID | The Pure Storage pod identifier. | pure:pod-id | <pod-id> |
| Pure Storage | Pure Storage Replication Group | The Pure Storage replication group. | pure:replication-group | <replication-group> |
| Report category | Report display name | Description | Tag key | Tag value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pure Storage | Pure Storage Array ID | The Pure Storage array identifier. | pure-array-id | <array-id> |
| Pure Storage | Pure Storage Pod ID | The Pure Storage pod identifier. | pure-pod-id | <pod-id> |
| Pure Storage | Pure Storage Replication Group | The Pure Storage replication group. | pure-replication-group | <replication-group> |
These tagging entities help organize cloud costs based on your Pure Storage deployments, providing greater visibility into storage utilization, replication activity, and cloud spending.
CloudSpend uses the above entities to tag and track your Pure Storage resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. These entities help associate cloud billing data with your storage deployments, making it easier to understand how storage costs are distributed.
The Pure Storage Array ID tag (pure:array-id) identifies an individual storage array. CloudSpend uses this tag to attribute cloud costs to specific arrays, enabling you to compare infrastructure costs across storage deployments and identify arrays with higher resource consumption.
The Pure Storage Pod ID tag (pure:pod-id) represents a logical grouping of storage resources that supports workload mobility and data availability. CloudSpend uses this tag to group cloud costs by pod, allowing you to understand how shared storage resources contribute to overall cloud spending.
The Pure Storage Replication Group tag (pure:replication-group) identifies storage resources participating in replication. CloudSpend uses this tag to associate costs with replication activities, helping you understand the financial impact of data protection and disaster recovery operations.
By organizing cloud costs using these Pure-Storage-specific tags, CloudSpend enables granular cost attribution across your storage environment. You can compare costs by array, pod, and replication group; identify high-cost storage deployments; and optimize storage allocation and replication strategies.
This structured tagging approach improves storage cost visibility, strengthens ownership across teams, and supports informed decisions for capacity planning and storage optimization.
The Pure Storage cost report helps you understand how your storage deployments contribute to overall cloud spending by organizing infrastructure costs using Pure-Storage-specific tags.
Some of the key benefits include:
The Pure Storage cost report provides a centralized view of your Pure-Storage-related cloud spending across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. By associating cloud billing data with tagged Pure Storage resources, the report enables you to understand how storage deployments contribute to your overall cloud costs.
Follow these steps to view the report:
1. Log in to CloudSpend and go to Reports.
2. Select the Pure Storage cost report.
3. Use filters to narrow down by account, region, or resource.
4. Select the required account to view the Spend Analysis dashboard.
The Spend Analysis view helps you understand how your Pure Storage deployments contribute to cloud spending over time. By combining cloud billing data with tagged Pure Storage resources, it provides detailed visibility into storage costs across your multi-cloud environment.
From this view, you can monitor total cloud spending for a selected time period, identify the highest-spending cloud accounts or subscriptions, and detect anomalies that may indicate unexpected increases in storage consumption or replication activity. Historical trend analysis also helps you understand how storage costs evolve as workloads expand, new storage arrays are provisioned, or replication requirements change.
You can further analyze cloud costs across services, regions, and resource groups to determine how the infrastructure supporting your Pure Storage deployments contributes to overall spending. This helps distinguish storage-related costs from compute, networking, and other cloud services that support storage operations.
Because cloud costs are organized using Pure-Storage-specific tags, Spend Analysis allows you to evaluate costs by storage array, pod, and replication group. For example, you can identify arrays with increasing storage consumption, compare costs across pods supporting different workloads, or determine whether replication groups are contributing to higher infrastructure costs due to data synchronization activities.
These insights help storage administrators optimize storage allocation, evaluate replication strategies, and improve capacity planning while maintaining the performance and availability required for business-critical applications.
The Resource Explorer provides a flexible way to analyze cloud costs associated with your Pure Storage resources across multiple operational dimensions.
You can group and filter cloud costs by accounts, subscriptions, projects, regions, services, resource groups, and tags to better understand how storage resources are distributed throughout your cloud environment. This flexibility enables you to investigate individual storage deployments or compare costs across different storage environments.
Grouping cloud costs by Pure Storage tags provides deeper visibility into your storage architecture. You can analyze costs by Array ID to compare infrastructure consumption across storage arrays, use the Pod ID to evaluate shared storage environments supporting multiple workloads, and use the Replication Group tag to understand the cost impact of data replication and disaster recovery operations.
Resource Explorer also helps identify storage deployments with higher infrastructure costs, making it easier to investigate storage growth, replication activity, and workload distribution. Combined with filtering capabilities, you can isolate specific storage environments, cloud regions, or tagged deployments to perform targeted cost analysis.
By organizing cloud costs around Pure Storage resources, Resource Explorer improves storage cost visibility, strengthens cost ownership across teams, and supports informed decisions for storage optimization, replication planning, and long-term capacity management.