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Cost Management

Real-time cost visibility, budget enforcement, and AI-driven forecasting across all clouds.

Overview

RosettaBox provides real-time cost management across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, OVH, and OpenStack. Unlike traditional cloud billing -- which operates with hours or days of lag -- RosettaBox maintains a live cost estimate for every cloud account and evaluates cost against budget continuously, enabling proactive enforcement rather than reactive bill shock.

Core cost management capabilities are available today. Advanced features including AI-driven forecasting and savings recommendations are coming in 2026.

Available Today

Real-Time Cost Tracking

RosettaHub combines hourly cost estimates on every running resource with cloud billing reports from the provider. This combination is what enables real-time cost visibility and proactive budget enforcement -- RosettaHub can stop resource creation the moment a budget is reached, rather than waiting for the cloud provider's billing data to arrive hours or days later.

A real-time Monitoring Service sits at the heart of this. It does two things at once across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud:

  1. Live cost estimation. For every running resource it computes an hourly cost estimate from the cloud's pricing data, reconciles it with the latest billing reports, and exposes a live cost total for each cloud account at any moment.
  2. Continuous cost-vs-budget evaluation. Live cost is re-evaluated against the budget continuously. If the budget is exceeded, new launches are stopped and configured actions (alert, autostop, etc.) kick in -- before the bill arrives, rather than hours or days later.
  3. Creation-time quota checks. Separately, when a user tries to create a machine, volume, or storage, the Monitoring Service checks the cloud account's quotas for that resource type. If a limit is reached, the creation is blocked at that moment.
Feature Description
Hourly cost estimates Every running resource carries an hourly cost estimate, visible to the user in real time
Combined billing Hourly estimates are reconciled with cloud billing reports for accurate, real-time cost tracking
Per-account tracking Individual cost tracking for every cloud account in the organization
Organization-level rollup Aggregate costs across sub-organizations and projects
Daily cost reports Automated daily reports at the organization and user level
Budget enforcement Resource creation is blocked when the budget ceiling is reached -- no surprise overruns

Cloud Resource Visibility

RosettaHub provides two levels of resource visibility:

Level What You See
User view All your resources combined across all regions and cloud providers, with hourly cost estimates per resource
Manager view All resources across all sub-accounts under your root cloud account, aggregated by user, project, and sub-organization

Apache Superset Dashboards

RosettaHub integrates Apache Superset dashboards (hosted at superset.rosettahub.com) for rich cost and resource analytics. Superset dashboards are embedded into the RosettaHub Console via perspectives and provide:

  • Root account dashboards -- managers see resource and cost breakdowns across all sub-accounts under their root cloud account
  • User dashboards -- users see their own resources and costs across all regions
  • Custom analytics -- SQL-based dashboards for ad-hoc cost and resource analysis

FinOps FOCUS 1.3 Tables

RosettaHub provides FinOps FOCUS 1.3 compliant cost data via AWS Athena-based tables that can be queried directly:

Feature Description
FOCUS 1.3 schema Cost data formatted to the FinOps FOCUS standard for interoperability
Athena queries Managers and users query cost data using standard SQL via AWS Athena
Access control Users only have access to their own FinOps data; managers can query across their organization
Cross-cloud FOCUS tables normalize cost data across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud into a single schema

Budget Enforcement

Feature Description
Hard budget limits Cloud accounts are automatically disabled when the budget ceiling is reached
Maximum hourly cost Enforce an hourly cost cap -- accounts are disabled if the rate is exceeded
Custom depletion actions Configure what happens when budget runs out: full cleanup, data preservation, or admin-defined actions
Re-enable via transfer Disabled accounts can be re-enabled by transferring additional budget

Budget Delegation

Feature Description
Decentralized delegation Budget owners delegate portions of their budget to sub-organizations or projects
Transfer rights Delegated budgets carry transfer rights, enabling nested delegation chains
Reverse transfers Retrieve unused budget from cloud accounts back to the parent
Multi-root accounts Support for multiple billing accounts (root cloud accounts) per organization

Promotional Credits

Feature Description
Voucher management Distribute and track promotional credits across the organization
Credit pooling Aggregate promotional credits from multiple sources
Credit redemption Users redeem credits on their cloud accounts via RosettaHub

Budget formula

A user's cloud account budget = budget transfers received from colleagues and managers + cloud credits redeemed on the account.

Cost Views

Access cost information through dedicated RosettaBox views:

  • Organization Costs -- cost breakdown and trends across the organization
  • Costs -- per-account cost breakdown and spending analysis
  • Budget Transfers -- transfer history and pending transfers
  • Managed Budget Transfers -- organization-wide budget transfer management
  • Vouchers and Managed Vouchers -- credit management

Coming Soon

Coming Q1-Q2 2026

The following capabilities are currently in development.

AI-Driven Cost Forecasting

Machine learning models trained on your organization's historical spending patterns to predict future costs and identify anomalies:

  • Spend projections -- forecast monthly and quarterly cloud costs
  • Anomaly detection -- flag unusual spending patterns before they become budget overruns
  • What-if analysis -- model the cost impact of scaling decisions before committing

Savings Recommendations

Automated identification of cost optimization opportunities:

  • Right-sizing -- identify over-provisioned instances with recommendations to downsize
  • Reserved instance opportunities -- flag workloads that would benefit from reservations
  • Idle resource detection -- find unused resources that can be terminated
  • One-click implementation -- apply savings recommendations directly from the dashboard

RosettaBox Tier

Tier Capability
Observe View costs, track trends, receive daily reports, AI-driven forecasting
Govern Enforce budgets, set hourly cost caps, configure depletion actions
Automate Auto-disable on budget depletion, scheduled resource management, savings implementation 
graph TD
    subgraph observe ["Observe"]
        V["View costs + trends"]
        R["Daily reports"]
        F["AI forecasting"]
    end

    subgraph govern ["Govern"]
        B["Hard budget limits"]
        H["Hourly cost caps"]
        D["Depletion actions"]
    end

    subgraph automate ["Automate"]
        AD["Auto-disable on depletion"]
        SL["Scheduled lifecycle"]
        SR["Savings implementation"]
    end

    observe -->|"See the waste"| govern
    govern -->|"Prevent the waste"| automate

    style observe fill:#e3f2fd,stroke:#1565c0,color:#000
    style govern fill:#fff3e0,stroke:#e65100,color:#000
    style automate fill:#e8f5e9,stroke:#2e7d32,color:#000