New Feature: Cost View Library

New feature alert! Cloudthread is launching Cost View Library. This is an addition to the platform's cost transparency capabilities aimed at bringing structure to cloud cost analytics.

Cost View Library brings structure to your cloud cost analytics with predefined spend categories and your custom cost filters stored at one location for convenient access, tracking and benchmarking.

While unit metrics and efficiency focus are important, traditional cloud cost analytics (i.e. absolute cost analysis) is an essential part of any cost management effort. Being able to rank teams by their total cost impact, trace the spend spike, or identify the most expensive service – all requires looking into absolute costs first.

Cloudthread makes it easy with the cost transparency set of features, which now includes the Cost View Library – a structured table for storing filtered absolute cost views that you have created and saved as a part of your setup and/or analysis, or that we have defined for you out of the box (cost categories or "base" views).

Cost View Library gives you a high-level insight into your cloud costs and allows for a quick snapshot comparison and benchmarking based on totals and WoW change metrics. Predefined spend categories (Compute, Databases, Data Transfer, etc.) serve as a convenient way to start the analysis right after the onboarding, while custom cost views provide real flexibility for defining the cost buckets you want to track.

The feature is now available for AWS – contact us to start using it as well as other engineering-focused cloud cost management capabilities Cloudthread platform provides.