Operations view
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Summary of Operations View
The Operations view in the Cloud Cost Management Workspace allows you to manage recommendations, cost usage tags, and various administrative tasks. Access it through Workspaces > Cloud Cost Management Workspace > Operations. Note that if you have the insightsowner role, only accounts assigned to you will be visible.
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Key Features
- Recommendations: Analyze potential savings through various categories:
- Rightsizing: View potential savings by service category and manage resources accordingly.
- Unused Resources: Identify and manage resources that are not being utilized, potentially saving costs.
- Reservation/Saving Plans: Evaluate upfront costs and savings from reserved instances.
- Business Hours: Understand savings related to business hours vs. non-business hours.
- Cost Usage Tags: Associate resource usage with business entities and manage tag categories and names.
- Administration: Create and manage service accounts, credentials, and scheduling for billing and price sheet downloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Global Exclusions: Exclude specific resources from reports to maintain data accuracy.
- Job Executions: Monitor job execution details for various tasks like billing downloads and price sheet downloads.
- Multi-Currency Setup: Configure currency preferences for users to view cost data in their desired format.
Key Outcomes
Utilizing the Operations view enhances your ability to track potential savings, manage resource usage effectively, and streamline administrative processes across cloud platforms. By leveraging the insights and tools available, you can ensure optimized cloud spending and improved financial management within your organization.
Use the Operations view in the Cloud Cost Management Workspace to view and manage recommendations, cost usage tags, and administration-related operations.
Important:
If you have the insights_owner role, only the accounts that are assigned to you appear in the filters and data.
You can access the Operations view by navigating to .
The Operations view includes the following categories of tasks:
- Overview: View your total savings by recommendation type and the number of recommendations to review, which are grouped by their state.
- Recommendations: View the savings of your cloud assets by recommendation type such as Rightsizing, Unused resources, Reservation/Saving plans, and Business hours. Select the
recommendation type to view detailed reports and act accordingly:
- Rightsizing: View the total potential savings by service category, total potential savings by change group, number of resources that are scheduled, completed, declined, failed, and excluded for rightsizing. You can also exclude or schedule resources for rightsizing resources, configure the rightsize settings, and create service category metrics. For more information, see Resize resources with Rightsizing.
- Unused resources: View the total potential savings by service category, total potential savings by change group, number of unused resources that are scheduled, completed, declined, failed, and excluded. You can also exclude or schedule unused resources to identify resources that are wasting money because they aren’t used, configure the unused settings, and create unused recommendations. For more information, see Manage unused resources.
- Reservation/Saving plans: View upfront cost to reserve, overall RI utilization percentage, potential savings by service category. You can accept or decline the recommendations for reserved instances. For more information, see Reduce resource cost with Reservation Plans
- Business hours: View the total potential savings by service category, total potential savings by change group, business hour against non-business hour spend, and number of resources that are scheduled, completed, declined, failed, and excluded from business hour policies. You can also exclude resources from the policies. For more information, see Improve resource usage with Business hours.
- Cost usage tags: Associate resource usage with particular business entities. For more information, see Tags and tag categories.
- Tag categories: Create and update tag categories.
- Tag names: Create tag names for the tag categories.
- Administration
- Service accounts: Create service accounts for AWS, Azure, and Google to store the credentials and access information for your account.
- Credentials: Create credentials for accessing AWS, Azure, and Google accounts.
- Billing download jobs: View, manage, and schedule the jobs that download billing data for AWS, Azure, and Google.
- Price sheet download jobs: View, manage, and schedule the jobs that download the price sheet for AWS, Azure, and Google.
- Business hours schedules: Create a schedule for business hours. For more information, see Create Business hours schedule.
- Unassigned resources: View list of unassigned resources and details of the resources such as provider, region, CMDB CI, service account and category, and SyS ID.
- Global exclusions: Exclude resources for ensuring that cost data for a particular resource doesn’t appear in a report. For more information, see Exclude a resource from all Cloud Cost Management reports.
- Job executions: View the job execution details of the following:
- Billing download
- Price sheet download
- Spend
- Budget
- Rightsizing/Unused
- Business hour
- Unassigned
- Reservation plan
- Account to owner mappings: Set up or update ownership of service accounts. For more information, see Assign service accounts to an insights_owner and Update or reassign insights_owner privileges.
- View insights owners: View the list of insights owner and also create a cloud service account. For more information, see View the service accounts owned by an insights_owner.
- AWS price discounts: View and specify the provider discount rate for each service account. For more information, see Specify rate discounts to enable accurate pricing for Rightsizing recommendations.
- AWS Gov account mappings: Create mapping of AWS Gov account to a linked service account. For more information, see Create AWS Gov accounts mapping.
- Shared cost allocation policies: Create, update, and view shared cost allocation policies with different allocation types to split the cost of shared cloud resources among various business lines. For more information, see Create or update a shared cost allocation policy.
- Multi-currency setup: Set up or update the currency options for Cloud Cost Management users to view their cloud cost and usage data in their preferred currency. For more information, see Set up or update preferred currency options.Note:This option is available with Cloud Cost Management version 10.0.0 or later.
- My preferences - Currency preference: Set up your preferred display currency for the dashboard widgets, recommendations
(rightsizing, business hours, unused resources, reservation, and savings plan), budgets, and billing data. For more information, see Choose preferred currency for cost and usage data.Note:This option is available with Cloud Cost Management 10.0.0 or later.
- Tools - Compare MetricBase with Spend data: Compare MetricBase (Clotho) data with your Spend data for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and easily diagnose and troubleshoot Cloud Cost Management billing issues. For more information, see Compare MetricBase data with spend data.Note:This option is available with Cloud Cost Management version 8.0.0 or later.