CloudForecast

CloudForecast is an AWS cost management solution offered by CloudForecast.io. According to the vendor, it provides detailed cost visibility and analysis for engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), DevOps, infrastructure, and technology professionals across various industries. The product offers features such as daily cost reports, custom report creation, cost anomaly alerts, and AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans monitoring, aiming to empower organizations to optimize their AWS costs and enhance financial decision-making.

Key Features

Daily Cost Reports: According to the vendor, CloudForecast provides daily AWS cost management reports that offer detailed cost visibility across total spend, end-of-the-month forecast, product, region, and tag. It also provides cost anomaly alerts.

Slice and Dice AWS Costs: The vendor claims that CloudForecast's custom reports tool allows users to create and send multiple tailored AWS cost reports to different recipients within the organization. It enables them to slice and dice cost data based on various parameters such as resources, accounts, and more.

Rapidly Respond to Cost Increases: The "Why?" drill-down table in CloudForecast is said to highlight the exact AWS service, resources, and tagKey contributing to cost increases. This feature aims to save time and investigative work by providing insights into cost anomalies.

AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans Monitoring: CloudForecast consolidates AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans data in one place and proactively pushes important information to the team for effective monitoring, as claimed by the vendor.

Boost AWS Tagging Strategy: According to the vendor, CloudForecast's AWS Tagging Compliance Report provides a comprehensive view of the current tagging landscape and identifies untagged resources. This feature aims to help organizations improve their AWS tagging strategy and compliance.

Effortless Daily Cost Reports with Integrations: CloudForecast offers integrations with popular collaboration tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie, according to the vendor. This allows for effortless delivery of daily cost reports to teams, increasing cost awareness and promoting collaboration.

Monthly Financial Report: CloudForecast delivers high-level AWS cost trends to Finance and C-level execs teams, as stated by the vendor. It provides a monthly excel report for a high-level financial overview of AWS cost, enabling better decision-making.

ZeroWaste Report: The ZeroWaste Report feature in CloudForecast is claimed to help organizations discover idle or underutilized resources within EC2 instances and EBS Volumes. It also provides a list of old EBS snapshots for additional cost savings.

AWS Cost Dashboard: CloudForecast offers a visual dashboard for monitoring AWS costs, according to the vendor. It allows users to drill down into specific areas to identify cost increases and gain deeper insights into their AWS spending.

Customizable Budget Alerts: CloudForecast allows users to set customizable budget alerts to stay informed about cost thresholds and avoid unexpected AWS cost overruns, as claimed by the vendor.