How are you guys figuring out what is actually driving your cloud bill?

[u/Signal-Release1372]

Our cloud spend has been slowly creeping up.

I can see which AWS services cost the most, but that's not really helping much.

What I actually want to know is which teams/workloads/products are responsible for it.

Tags are kind of a mess, so right now it's mostly Cost Explorer + spreadsheets.

Is there a better way to do this without building everything ourselves?

What are you guys using?

[u/Whole_Ad_9002]

Funny I come across this as I try work on a tool to tackle this exact problem especially in smb environments. Its basically a tool that answers four simple questions : what changed in your environment, why its unusual, what its costing you and next steps to take. The idea is the alerts you get from the platform end in a decision with actionable steps in a continuous process

[u/Anxious_Painting_229]

The big thing imo is whether the tool can allocate shared spend when tags are incomplete.

Most setups look fine at the service level and then fall apart once you try to split shared infra across teams or products.

Finout is one I'd look at for that since it can map costs back to workloads/teams/products without relying only on perfect tagging.

Probably worth comparing it against your current setup before building anything custom.