Visibility

Learn how to break down, filter, compare, and forecast your cloud spend in Visibility.

In Visibility, you can see the cost data from your cloud accounts in one place: where your spend goes, how it changes, and where it is heading. Visibility has three tabs:

• Explore shows your spend over a date range. See Explore costs.
• Compare shows two date ranges side by side. See Compare costs.
• Forecast shows your projected spend. See Forecast costs.

To open Visibility, select Analyze in the top navigation, then select Explore, Compare, or Forecast.

Visibility is not limited to cloud spend. If you have connected a Cost Loop, use the Cost loops control at the top right to add its spend to the page. The loops you select appear alongside your cloud account, on the same chart and in the same table. See Cost Loops.

Splitting Your Costs

Split your spend by a dimension to see the cost of each of its values, such as each service or each region. Use splits to find the largest parts of your spend. For example, split by Service and then by Region to see the cost of each service in each region.

Splits apply to Explore and Compare. To add a split, click Add split, then select a dimension. You can add up to five splits.

With more than one split, each chart series is one combination of values, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - us-east-1. The table below the chart acts like a pivot table showing one column for each split.

Filtering Your Costs

Use filters to keep only the costs you care about. You can filter by any dimension, including one that you do not split by. For example, filter to one service and split by Region to see where that service runs.

1. Click Filters at the top right.
2. Select a dimension, then select the values to keep.

When you select more than one value for a dimension, Visibility includes cost that matches any of those values. When you filter on more than one dimension, Visibility includes only cost that matches every filter.

Dimensions You Can Split and Filter By

Visibility uses the same dimensions as Streams, for both splits and filters. These are the most commonly used dimensions:

Dimension	What it is
Service	The cloud service, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Linked Account	The account in your org that the cost belongs to.
Region	The cloud region where the cost occurred.
Usage Type	The specific usage that you were billed for.
Pricing Term	How the usage was priced, such as Committed for usage that a commitment covers, or Standard.
Charge Type	The kind of charge, such as usage or a fee.
Instance Type	The instance type of the resource.
Tags	The tags on your resources. Each tag key is its own dimension. Select the key, then its values.

There is much more to slice and dice by. The split menu and the Filters drawer have more dimensions, grouped by product, configuration, location, billing, and commitments. If your account has cost categories, they are available too.

Keeping Tabs in Sync

With Sync on, your settings stay the same as you move between tabs. Sync is on by default. Its switch is at the top of the Filters drawer.

• From Explore, or the Compare base state. Your date range, granularity, splits, and filters carry over to the other tabs.
• From Forecast. Your granularity and filters carry over to Explore and Compare.

Turn Sync off to set up each tab separately.