Cloud Cost Management roles

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Cloud Insights Roles

    The Cloud Insights roles are designed to manage user access based on their responsibilities within the Cloud Insights and Cloud Insights Billing applications. These roles help organizations effectively oversee their cloud costs and optimize resource usage.

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    Key Features

    • Primary Roles:
      • Cloud Insights Admin: Manages financial responsibilities, ownership of service accounts, budget planning, and optimization reports.
      • Cloud Insights Owner: Defines jobs and policies, and manages data for service accounts.
      • Cloud Insights User: Accesses the Cloud Cost Management Workspace.
    • Secondary Roles:
      • Cloud Spend Admin: Edits Cloud Billing dashboards.
      • Cloud Integrations Admin: Configures billing download jobs and price sheet jobs.
      • API Integrator: Facilitates REST endpoint access for cloud integrations.
      • Cloud Budget Viewer: Views budget forecast reports and policies.
      • PA Admin: Related to Performance Analytics roles.
      • Clotho Put: Sends billing data to the instance for storage.

    Key Outcomes

    By assigning these roles, organizations can ensure that users have the appropriate access to manage cloud costs effectively, optimize resource allocation, and gain insights into financial performance. This structured role assignment aids in governance, accountability, and strategic financial management within the cloud environment.

    You assign Cloud Cost Management roles to user groups and to individual users based on user activities and responsibilities.

    Important:
    This information applies to both the Cloud Cost Management and Cloud Insights Billing apps. All references to Cloud Cost Management also apply to Cloud Insights Billing.

    Role relationships in Cloud Cost Management

    Role relationships in Cloud Cost Management

    Primary Roles

    Role title [name] Permissions Contains roles

    Cloud Insights Admin [sn_clin_core.insights_admin]

    		 The role is in the Cloud Cost Management Core plugin. You typically assign the role to the person who is financially responsible.
    • Assign ownership of one or more service accounts and, optionally, the related CIs to users that have the insights_owner role.
    • Define Business hours and Unassigned resources policies.
    • Define and view Budget plans.
    • View spend optimization reports.
    • Add report extensions.
    • Perform the actions that Cloud Cost Management recommends.
    • insights_owner
    • spend_admin
    • cloud_integrations_admin
    • budget_viewer
    • [pa_admin]
    • [schedule_admin]
    • [itil]

    Cloud Insights Owner [sn_clin_core.insights_owner]

    The role is in the Cloud Cost Management Core plugin. The role spans only the Cloud Cost Management application.

    • Define jobs and policies.
    • View data for owned service accounts.

    For more information, see Assign service accounts to an insights_owner.

    insights_user

    Cloud Insights User

    [sn_clin_core.insights_user]

    The role is in the Cloud Cost Management Core plugin. The role spans only the Cloud Cost Management application.

    View the Cloud Cost Management Workspace home page.

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    Secondary roles

    The roles in this section are contained in the insights_admin role. These roles enable integration with platform (Performance Analytics, MetricBase/Clotho) to execute Cloud Cost Management flows.

    Role title [name] Permissions Contains roles
    Cloud Spend Admin

    [sn_cld_spend_core.spend_admin]

    		 The role is in the Cloud Spend Reports Core plugin.

    Edit the Cloud Billing dashboards.
    • cloud_integrations_admin
    • [sn_capi.cloud_developer]
    Cloud Integrations Admin

    [sn_cld_intg_core.cloud_integrations_admin]

    		 The role is in the Cloud Integrations Core plugin.

    Configure Billing Download jobs and Price Sheet Download jobs.
    • [api_integrator]
    • [discovery_admin]
    • [flow_operator]
    API Integrator

    [sn_cld_intg_core.api_integrator]

    		 The role is in the Cloud Integrations Core plugin.

    Used by the MID Server to access REST endpoints that are related to the Cloud Integrations, Cloud Integrations AWS applications, and Cloud Integrations Azure applications.

    		 [clotho_rest_put]
    Cloud Budget Viewer [sn_clin_core.budget_viewer]

    The role is in the Cloud Cost Management Core plugin. The role spans only the Cloud Cost Management application.

    View Budget Forecast reports and policies.

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    PA Admin

    [pa_admin]

    		 See Performance Analytics roles. — none —
    Clotho Put

    [clotho_rest_put]

    Role that is used by the MID Server to send the billing data to the instance and store the data in MetricBase / Clotho.

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