Azure cost analysis: explain spend changes
Investigate Azure spend changes by scope, service, usage and price basis. Separate billing adjustments from technical waste before choosing an action.
Technical guides
Cloud cost and FinOps technical guides
Practical reading for finance and cloud engineering: explain billing differences, assign responsibility and review changes with the right evidence.
Azure is generally available in Costframe. AWS remains a private pilot; its guides distinguish native AWS tools from Costframe's narrower coverage.
Azure
Azure cost allocation: tags and responsibility
Design Azure cost allocation across subscriptions, resource groups and tags. Keep current mappings, historical responsibility and unallocated charges distinct.
Azure cost permissions: diagnose missing data
Diagnose missing Azure cost data by principal, scope, billing agreement and capability. Understand Reader, Cost Management Reader and partial access.
Reconcile Azure billing and cost data
Explain differences between Azure invoices, actual cost, amortized cost and resource totals. Preserve adjustments, unlinked charges and native precision.
Azure costs after resource deletion
Understand why deleted Azure resources still appear in cost reports. Separate historical charges, delayed billing and surviving dependent resources.
Azure VM scheduling: costs and safeguards
Plan Azure VM start/stop schedules around workload demand, deallocation, dependencies and commitments. Understand remaining charges and rollback needs.
AWS
AWS cost optimization: a practical workflow
Prioritize AWS cost work across usage, idle resources, rightsizing and commitments. Use native AWS evidence and understand Costframe's private-pilot limits.
AWS rightsizing: EC2 constraints and costs
Review EC2 rightsizing using memory, CPU, EBS, network and architecture constraints. Compare AWS-native candidates with Costframe's bounded pilot signals.
AWS cost allocation: tags and account scope
Connect AWS accounts, activated cost allocation tags and shared-cost rules. Diagnose untagged charges without confusing metadata with historical ownership.
Costframe vs AWS Cost Explorer
Compare AWS Cost Explorer's native analysis and recommendations with Costframe's evidence-review workflow. AWS support in Costframe remains a private pilot.
AWS EBS cost optimization: a safe review
Review unattached EBS volumes, provisioned capacity and snapshot dependencies. Separate storage-retention decisions from supported Costframe pilot findings.
AWS Savings Plans after rightsizing
Model AWS Savings Plans against the hourly baseline left after rightsizing and scheduling. Distinguish coverage, utilization and actual financial benefit.
FinOps
FinOps platform: an evaluation guide
Evaluate a FinOps platform with real billing, allocation and engineering cases. Assess evidence, provider coverage and workflow limits beyond feature lists.
Cloud cost reporting that finance can use
Build a useful cloud cost report with explicit periods, native currency, reconciled totals, ownership and action evidence. Separate estimates from outcomes.
Shared cloud cost allocation methods
Choose fixed, proportional or usage-based shared cloud cost allocation. Preserve source totals and distinguish approved models from measured responsibility.
Cloud cost visibility: find data blind spots
Diagnose cloud cost blind spots across billing scope, resource joins, ownership and freshness. Avoid treating missing data or partial collection as zero spend.
Cloud waste management: review to outcome
Run a cloud waste review queue with owners, dependency checks, exceptions and financial follow-up. Keep detected conditions separate from realized savings.
Verify cloud savings after a change
Verify cloud savings with comparable billing, workload evidence and commitment context. Separate estimates, implementation and realized financial results.