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title: Cloud Cost Management
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# Cloud Cost Management

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Explore your cloud provider costs and correlate them with real-time telemetry data. Gain actionable insights and alerts on where your cloud costs are coming from, how they are changing, and where to find potential optimizations.

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## Overview{% #overview %}

Cloud Cost Management provides insights for engineering and finance teams to understand how infrastructure changes impact costs, allocate spend across your organization, and identify inefficiencies.

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   alt="Gain insights into all of your cloud provider's cost and usage on the Cloud Costs Summary page in Datadog" /%}

Datadog ingests your cloud cost data and transforms it into metrics you can use in a search query on the [**Explorer** page](https://app.datadoghq.com/cost/explorer). If costs rise, you can correlate the increase with usage metrics to determine the root cause.

## Setup{% #setup %}

To start managing your cloud costs with Cloud Cost Management, see the following documentation.

- [AWS: Configure Cloud Cost Management for your AWS bill.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/setup/aws.md)
- [Azure: Configure Cloud Cost Management for your Azure bill.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/setup/azure.md)
- [Google Cloud: Configure Cloud Cost Management for your Google Cloud bill.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/setup/google_cloud.md)
- [Oracle: Configure Cloud Cost Management for your Oracle bill.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/setup/oracle.md)
- [SaaS and AI Costs: Send cost data from a supported SaaS cost provider to Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/setup/saas_costs.md)
- [Custom Costs: Upload any cost data source to Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/setup/custom.md)
- [Datadog Costs: Visualize daily Datadog spending and utilization metrics.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/datadog_costs.md)
 
## Use cloud cost data{% #use-cloud-cost-data %}

Visualize infrastructure spend alongside related utilization metrics with a retention period of 15 months to spot potential inefficiencies and savings opportunities.

When creating a dashboard, select Cloud Cost as the data source for your search query.

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   alt="Cloud Cost available as a data source in dashboard widget creation" /%}

Optionally, you can programmatically export a timeseries graph of your cloud cost data by using the [Metrics API](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/metrics.md#query-timeseries-data-across-multiple-products).

## Use daily Datadog cost data{% #use-daily-datadog-cost-data %}

Visualize daily Datadog spending alongside related utilization metrics with a retention period of 15 months to spot potential inefficiencies and savings opportunities. Learn more about [Datadog Costs](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/datadog_costs.md).

When creating a dashboard, select Cloud Cost as the data source, then choose Datadog from the available cost types.

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   alt="Datadog costs as an option for the Cloud Cost data source in a dashboard" /%}

Optionally, you can programmatically export a timeseries graph of your Datadog cost data by using the [Metrics API](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/metrics.md#query-timeseries-data-across-multiple-products).

## Tagging and cost allocation{% #tagging-and-cost-allocation %}

Learn how tags are sourced, enriched, and managed in Cloud Cost Management by reading the [Tags documentation](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/tags.md).

You can create tag rules to correct missing or incorrect tags, and add inferred tags that align with your organization's business logic.

## Create a cost monitor{% #create-a-cost-monitor %}

Proactively manage and optimize your cloud spending by creating a [Cloud Cost Monitor](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md). Choose from Cost Changes, Cost Anomalies, Cost Threshold, Cost Forecast, or Budget monitor types. See [Cloud Cost Monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md) for details on each type.

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   alt="Create a Cloud Cost monitor that alerts on cost changes" /%}

## Allocate costs{% #allocate-costs %}

Use [Container Cost Allocation metrics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/container_cost_allocation.md) to discover costs associated with clusters and workloads across Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You can gain visibility into pod-level costs, identify idle resource costs, and analyze costs by resource type.

## Permissions{% #permissions %}

Cloud Cost Management uses the following permissions to control access to cost data and most CCM configurations:

- `cloud_cost_management_read`
- `cloud_cost_management_write`

For a detailed breakdown of requirements by page, see [Permissions](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/setup/permissions.md).

## Review data history{% #review-data-history %}

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   alt="View your Cloud Cost data history in Cloud Cost settings." /%}

Monitor the freshness and processing status of your cloud cost data on the Cloud Cost > Settings > Data History page.

- Last Bill Received: When Datadog last received billing data from your cloud or SaaS provider. This timestamp does not indicate the latest usage or cost date in that data.
- Last Processed: When Datadog last processed billing data from your cloud provider, including:
  - Tag pipeline rules (retroactively processes up to 3 months of historical data by default)
  - Cost allocation rules (retroactively processes up to 1 month of historical data by default)

Use this page to troubleshoot data delays or confirm that recent tag pipelines and cost allocation changes have taken effect.

Cloud cost data can only be as recent as the data supplied by your provider. If costs are missing for an expected date, compare your provider's bill or export with CCM. Contact your provider if the source does not contain costs for the expected date. Contact [Datadog Support](https://docs.datadoghq.com/help/) if the source contains those costs but CCM does not.

## Use AI for cost analysis{% #use-ai-for-cost-analysis %}

Use the [Cloud Cost Skill in Bits Chat](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/cloud_cost_skill.md) to investigate cost changes, identify likely owners, compare spend against budgets, correlate cost with observability metrics, and create handoff notebooks for engineering teams.

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   alt="Bits Chat's investigation summary showing an initial analysis." /%}

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

- [Create a Cloud Cost monitor](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md)
- [Learn about Tags in Cloud Cost Management](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/tags.md)
- [Use Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/cloud_cost_skill.md)
- [Gain visibility and control of your cloud spend with Datadog Cloud Cost Management](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/control-your-cloud-spend-with-datadog-cloud-cost-management/)
- [Driving AI ROI: How Datadog connects cost, performance, and infrastructure so you can scale responsibly](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/manage-ai-cost-and-performance-with-datadog/)
- [Understand your Kubernetes and ECS spend with Datadog Cloud Cost Management](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-container-support/)
- [Empower engineers to take ownership of Google Cloud costs with Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/google-cloud-cost-management/)
- [Quickly and comprehensively analyze the cloud and SaaS costs behind your services](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/total-cost-of-service-ownership-ccm/)
- [Key learnings from the State of Cloud Costs study](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cloud-costs-study-learnings/)
- [Monitor unit economics with Datadog Cloud Cost Management](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/unit-economics-ccm/)
- [How we've created a successful FinOps practice at Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/finops-at-datadog/)
- [How we saved $1.5 million per year with Cloud Cost Management](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-saved-millions/)
- [Manage and optimize your OCI costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-oci/)
- [How Cambia Health Solutions saved $30,000 monthly with Cloud Cost Management and the Datadog Resource Catalog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cambia-health-cost-optimization)
- [Analyze cloud costs with flexible spreadsheets in Datadog Sheets](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/flexible-sheets-cloud-cost-management/)