---
title: Cloud Cost Management
description: >-
  Use the Cloud Cost Management overlay in Cloudcraft to view resource-level
  costs and discover savings opportunities directly on your architecture
  diagrams.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Cloudcraft in Datadog > Overlays > Cloud Cost Management
---

# Cloud Cost Management

## Overview{% #overview %}

The Cloud Cost overlay helps you visualize resource-level costs and identify savings opportunities within your cloud architecture diagrams. This overlay provides two views: **Cost** and **Recommendations**.

**Note**: The Cost view is not available for GCP accounts. The Recommendations view is supported for GCP.

## Cost view{% #cost-view %}

The Cost view shows resource-level cloud costs from the past 30 days, allowing you to understand spending patterns across your architecture.

### Filter by cost{% #filter-by-cost %}

Use the slider filter at the bottom of the screen to set a cost range. The diagram updates dynamically to highlight resources within your selected range.

You can also filter by region to focus on specific parts of your infrastructure.

### Resource details{% #resource-details %}

Click a resource to open the side panel, which displays:

- Cost breakdown for the last 30 days
- Tag information associated with the resource
- **Top Cost Changes** section (when applicable) highlighting significant cost fluctuations

**Note**: The time range defaults to the last 30 days and is not configurable.

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## Recommendations view{% #recommendations-view %}

The Recommendations view shows savings opportunities directly on resources with estimated monthly savings (for example, terminate unused RDS instances, migrate storage classes).

Use the filter at the bottom of the screen to narrow recommendations by:

- Potential monthly savings range
- Recommendation type: **Terminate**, **Migrate**, **Downsize**, or **Purchase**

### Resource details{% #resource-details-1 %}

Clicking a resource opens a detailed side panel with:

- Current and projected monthly costs
- A description of recommended changes
- Quick actions to create a Jira issue or support case
- Metrics and usage patterns explaining the recommendation

This enables faster, in-context cost optimization without switching views.

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   alt="Cloud Cost Management overlay in Cloudcraft showing the Recommendations view with savings opportunities highlighted." /%}

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

- [Infrastructure overlay](https://docs.datadoghq.com/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/infrastructure.md)
- [Observability overlay](https://docs.datadoghq.com/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/observability.md)
- [Security overlay](https://docs.datadoghq.com/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/security.md)
- [Cloud Cost Management](https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management.md)