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Cost Management

Real-time cost visibility, budget enforcement, and savings recommendations across all clouds.

Overview

RosettaOps provides real-time cost management across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud. Unlike traditional cloud billing, which operates with hours or days of lag, RosettaOps 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, including savings recommendations, are available today. Forecasting and anomaly detection are on the roadmap.

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 writes cost data in the FinOps FOCUS 1.3 format into your own account, queryable directly with SQL:

Feature Description
FOCUS 1.3 schema Cost data formatted to FOCUS, the FinOps Foundation's open specification for billing data
Two tables per root account The FOCUS table, plus the provider's own detailed export enriched with the user, project and cost centre each line belongs to
SQL queries Managers and users query with standard SQL through your cloud's own serverless query engine: Athena on AWS, Synapse on Azure
Access control Users only have access to their own FinOps data; managers can query across their organization
Cross-cloud FOCUS tables normalize AWS and Azure cost data into a single schema, so a query written once works on both

Budget Enforcement

Feature Description
Hard budget limits When the budget is reached, new activity on the account is blocked, AI included (Govern). On Automate, what is already running is stopped as well
Maximum hourly cost Enforce an hourly cost cap: accounts are disabled if the rate is exceeded
At the limit (Automate) Instances are stopped with their volumes kept, storage is untouched, and data is preserved wherever the service allows
Enforcement per account Each account is either enforced or monitored only, decided by the scopes granted on it. An account without the scopes that allow blocking and stopping (PERMISSIONS and DESTROY) is monitored and alerted on, but never blocked or stopped: the right setting for production workloads
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 RosettaOps 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

Savings Recommendations

Automated identification of cost optimization opportunities, available from Observe:

  • 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

Acting on a recommendation: one-click implementation, cleanup, downsizing: requires Automate, because it modifies a running resource.

Roadmap

Not yet available.

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

By Edition

Edition Capability
Observe View costs, track trends, receive daily reports, savings recommendations
Govern Enforce budgets and hourly cost caps: when a budget is reached, new activity is blocked, AI included
Automate Everything in Govern, plus acting on what is already running: running services stopped when a budget is reached, scheduled resource management, savings implementation 
graph TD
    subgraph observe ["Observe"]
        V["View costs + trends"]
        R["Daily reports"]
        F["Savings recommendations"]
    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 -->|"Stop more appearing"| automate

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    style govern fill:#e8f5e9,stroke:#2e7d32,color:#000
    style automate fill:#fff3e0,stroke:#e65100,color:#000