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Multi Cloud Billing Hub

Welcome to your central billing command center! The CloudPi Multi-Cloud Billing Hub offers a comprehensive solution for managing and analyzing billing data across various Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). This hub allows you to create tailored billing views to monitor expenditures based on different dimensions like services, service groups, and user-defined cost tags.

Key Features

Billing Analysis - Delivers insights to optimize your cloud spending with multiple analysis types

Customizable Billing Views - Easily configure views based on specific dimensions to better understand your cloud expenses

Invoice Customization and Delivery - Customize and automatically generate invoices tailored to your organizational needs

Managed Cloud Services Provider Support - Receive specialized billing services designed for Managed Cloud Service Providers

Billing Analysis

Billing Analysis delivers insights to optimize your cloud spending. It provides powerful visualization and tabular views to help teams understand cost patterns, detect anomalies, and identify optimization opportunities.

Accessing Billing Analysis

  1. From the left navigation menu, click on Billing Hub
  2. Select Billing Analysis
  3. The Billing Analysis page opens with Quick Filters and visualization options

Quick Filters

Use these key filters to quickly narrow down your billing data view:

Analysis Type - Select the type of analysis (Anomaly Analysis, Trend Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Budget Analysis, Optimization Analysis)

Cloud Service Provider - Filter by AWS, Azure, GCP, or All Providers

Projects - Select specific projects to analyze

Cost Type - Choose Billed Cost or other cost types

Granularity - Switch between Daily, Weekly, or Monthly views

Date Range - Select time period (60D, 90D, or Custom) with max 120 days

Limit - Choose Top 10 or other limits for data display

PRIMARY Group By - Select the main analysis dimension (e.g., Service Name)

Click + Advanced Filters to access additional filtering options for more granular analysis.

Analysis Types

The Analysis Type dropdown provides five different views for analyzing your billing data:

1. Anomaly Analysis

Detect unusual spending patterns and cost spikes across your cloud environment.

Features:

Cost Trend: Service - Area chart showing monthly cost breakdown by service (Top 10)

  • Displays Billed Cost over time with color-coded services
  • Interactive legend - click on service names to show/hide specific services
  • Services include: Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Azure SQL Database, Azure Private Link, Storage Accounts, etc.

Detailed Data Table:

Below the chart, a detailed table shows:

Service - Name of the cloud service

Billed Cost (by month) - Cost for each month

Spike - Indicates if there was a cost spike

Total - Total billed cost for the service

Anomaly Analysis

Anomaly Analysis - Detailed Data

2. Trend Analysis

Monthly cost trends with moving average and cumulative totals to understand spending patterns over time.

Features:

Cost Trend Chart - Line chart showing monthly trend analysis

Actual Cost - Real spending for each period

Cumulative - Running total of costs over time

Moving Average - Smoothed trend line to identify patterns

Detailed Data Table:

Service - Name of the cloud service

Actual - Actual cost for the period

Mov Avg - Moving average cost

Cumulative - Cumulative total cost

Trend Analysis

Trend Analysis - Detailed Data

3. Comparative Analysis

Compare costs across multiple time periods to identify changes and growth patterns.

Features:

3-Month Comparison - Compare costs across three consecutive months (e.g., Nov 2025 → Dec 2025 → Jan 2026)

Comparative Analysis Chart - Grouped bar chart showing period comparison for top dimensions

Interactive legend - Show/hide specific months

Detailed Data Table:

Service - Name of the cloud service

Month 1 Cost - Cost for first comparison month

Month 2 Cost - Cost for second comparison month

Difference ($) - Dollar difference between periods

Change (%) - Percentage change (highlighted in red for increases, green for decreases)

Month 3 Cost - Cost for third comparison month

The table highlights significant changes: - Red badges indicate cost increases (e.g., +411.62%) - Green badges indicate cost decreases (e.g., -85.04%)

Comparative Analysis

Comparative Analysis - Detailed Data

4. Budget Analysis

Track budget consumption and compare actual spending against allocated budgets.

Features:

  • Budget vs. actual cost comparison
  • Budget utilization percentage
  • Forecast vs. actual spending trends

5. Optimization Analysis

Identify cost optimization opportunities and track realized savings.

Features:

Optimization Savings Summary Cards:

Potential Savings - Total opportunity identified for cost reduction

Realized Savings - Amount captured through automation (with "Achieved" badge)

Remaining Opportunity - Available savings still to capture

Realization Rate - Percentage of potential savings achieved (with Fair/Good/Excellent rating)

Alert Banner: When significant optimization opportunities are available, an alert displays: "You have $X in remaining optimization opportunities. Your current realization rate is X%. Implementing these recommendations could significantly reduce your cloud costs."

Top Savings Opportunities: - Horizontal bar chart showing top 9 dimensions with highest potential savings - Services ranked by potential savings amount

Optimization Savings Breakdown Table:

Service - Name of the cloud service

Potential Savings - Identified savings opportunity

Achieved Savings - Savings already realized

Remaining Opportunity - Savings still available to capture

Optimization Analysis

Optimization Analysis - Breakdown

Managing Billing Views

Save As View

To save your current filter configuration:

  1. Configure your desired filters (Analysis Type, Projects, Date Range, etc.)
  2. Click the + Save As View button in the top right
  3. Enter a name for your billing view
  4. Click Save

Select a Billing View

To load a previously saved view:

  1. Click the Select a billing view... dropdown in the top right
  2. Choose from your saved billing views
  3. The page updates with the saved filter configuration

Understanding the Interface

Chart Interactions:

Legend Toggle - Click on items in the legend to show/hide specific data series

Hover - Hover over chart elements to see detailed values

Pagination - Use pagination controls in tables (Rows per page, Page navigation)

Data Export:

  • Click the download icon in the Detailed Data section to export table data

Shared Costs Management

The Shared Costs page allows you to view and manage shared cost allocations between projects. This ensures that expenses related to shared services (e.g., infrastructure, regions) are fairly distributed across relevant projects.

Create a Shared Cost

Use this flow to create a new shared cost allocation between projects.

Steps:

  1. Click on + Create Shared Cost - Opens the Add Shared Cost form

  2. Select Billing View - Choose the billing view you want to apply the shared cost to

  3. Select Time Period - Choose from available options such as Yearly, Monthly, etc.

  4. Add Target Projects:

  5. Select the Project that will share the cost
  6. Specify the Percentage (%) of cost to allocate

  7. Click the + icon to add multiple projects if needed

  8. Enter Note - Provide context or reasons for the shared cost (e.g., shared infrastructure, cross-team usage)

  9. Click Save - Finalize the shared cost entry. The status will be set to Pending until accepted

Key Actions

Project Filter: - Use the Select Project dropdown to filter shared costs related to a specific project

Shared Cost List:

View the list of shared cost entries with details such as:

Billing Name - The service or resource category being shared (e.g., Service name, Regions)

Shared Projects - Shows the allocation direction (e.g., NPDDDev → CPDev)

Note - Additional information (e.g., "This resource is part of a shared infrastructure and is utilized by multiple teams")

Status - Indicates if the shared cost is Accepted (green) or Pending (yellow)

Time Period - The duration the shared cost is active (start and end dates)

Actions - Options to view more details or perform actions like edit or delete

View Shared Cost Details

Allows users to view specific details of an existing shared cost allocation.

Steps:

  1. In the Shared Costs Page, locate the shared cost entry
  2. Click on the Actions menu (three dots) next to the entry
  3. Select View to see detailed information like:
  4. Billing View and Service Name
  5. Allocated Projects and their share percentages
  6. Notes explaining the purpose of sharing
  7. Time Period and Status (Accepted / Pending)

Additional Action for Pending Status:

If the status is Pending, the user will have the option to: - Accept the shared cost - Reject the shared cost

Views and Reports

The Views and Reports page allows you to create and manage billing view reports based on your configured billing views. Generate reports for specific time periods to analyze costs across projects and services.

Key Features:

Report Generation - Create reports for specific billing views and time periods

Report Management - View, edit, download, and share billing view reports

Project Filtering - Filter billing views by project for easier navigation

Navigating the Views and Reports Page

The Views and Reports page displays all your billing views and provides tools to create and manage reports.

Page Components:

Page Header - "Views and Billing View Reports" with description "Create and manage billing view reports for billing views."

Project Filter - Dropdown in the top right to filter billing views by project (e.g., HRApplication)

Billing View Table - Main table displaying:

  • Billing View name - Name of the billing view
  • Project Name - Associated project(s), with badge showing multiple projects (e.g., "3 projects")
  • Status - Current status (Active shown in green badge)
  • Actions - Icons for viewing reports, creating reports, and deleting billing views

Billing View Reports

View all reports that have been generated for a specific billing view.

Steps to View Reports:

  1. Locate the billing view in the table
  2. Click the Eye icon in the Actions column
  3. The Billing View Reports panel opens showing all reports for that billing view
  4. Click the View Report icon (eye icon) next to the report you want to view
  5. The report details page opens with full billing information

Billing View Reports Panel:

The panel displays a table with the following information for each report:

  • Report Number (e.g., BR-00008)
  • Reporting Period (date range, e.g., 2025-11-30 - 2025-12-30)
  • Created By (username, e.g., CloudPi Admin)
  • Date Created (timestamp)
  • Status (Active in green badge)
  • Actions (View Report, Edit Notes icons)

Panel Actions:

  • Download - Download icon in top right to export reports
  • Share - Share icon in top right to share reports with others
  • Plus (+) - Create a new report from within the panel
  • Close - Close the Billing View Reports panel

Create Billing View Report

Generate a new report for a billing view by specifying the reporting period.

Steps to Create Report:

  1. Locate the billing view in the table
  2. Click the Plus (+) icon in the Actions column
  3. The Create Billing View Report dialog opens showing:
  4. Billing View - Name and associated projects
  5. Reporting Period - Date range selector with Start date and End date fields
  6. Select the start date and end date for your report
  7. Click Continue to generate the report, or Cancel to abort

The system generates a report containing all billing data for the selected billing view within the specified time period.

View Report Details

Access the full details of a generated report including costs, notes, and export options.

Steps to View Report:

  1. Open the Billing View Reports panel (Eye icon)
  2. Click the Eye icon next to the report you want to view
  3. The report details page opens with:

Report Header:

  • Report number (e.g., BR-00008)
  • Status badge (Active in green)
  • Billing View name and associated projects

Reporting Period Card:

  • Start Date
  • End Date

Report Details Card:

  • Created At (timestamp)
  • Created By (username)

Billing View Summary Table:

  • Project Name - Project associated with the costs
  • Service Name - Cloud services used (e.g., Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts)
  • Billed Cost - Cost for each service
  • Sub Total - Sum of all line items
  • Grand Total - Final total cost

Additional Options:

  • Notes - Text field to add context or comments (max 500 characters)
  • Set Currency - Dropdown to select currency (e.g., United States Dollar)
  • Preview & Download - Blue button to preview and download the report
  • Cancel - Return to previous view

Report Actions (Top Right):

  • Download - Export the report
  • Share - Share the report with others
  • Plus (+) - Create a new report

Edit Report Notes

Add or modify notes on a report to provide additional context or documentation.

Steps to Edit Notes:

  1. Open the Billing View Reports panel
  2. Click the Pencil (Edit) icon next to the report
  3. The report details page opens with the Notes field active
  4. Enter or update notes (up to 500 characters)
  5. Select currency if needed
  6. Click Preview & Download to save changes

Notes are useful for documenting:

  • Reason for the report
  • Special circumstances during the reporting period
  • Budget allocations or approvals
  • Internal tracking information

Delete Billing View

Remove a billing view when it's no longer needed. This action affects the billing view itself, not individual reports.

Steps to Delete:

  1. Locate the billing view in the table
  2. Click the Trash icon in the Actions column
  3. A confirmation dialog appears
  4. Confirm deletion to remove the billing view

Note: Deleting a billing view may affect associated reports. Ensure you've downloaded any needed reports before deletion.