As part of FPT Cloud’s strategy to elevate the customer experience in cloud cost governance, FPT Data Suite officially introduces Advanced Cost Explorer (ACE) – a comprehensive solution for cost analysis, monitoring, and forecasting that enables enterprises to proactively manage budgets, detect anomalies, and optimize cloud resources in real time.
Overview of Advanced Cost Explorer
Advanced Cost Explorer is an enhanced evolution of the Cost Explorer feature, designed to address common challenges enterprises face in cloud cost management: fragmented data, limited visibility, and time-consuming manual reporting. The solution standardizes and models cost data across multiple analytical dimensions while activating pre-built dashboards, allowing enterprises to monitor expenses instantly and detect abnormal fluctuations at an early stage.
How Advanced Cost Explorer works
1. Automated data collection & modeling
When Advanced Cost Explorer is enabled, all cost data from FPT Cloud is automatically synchronized into FPT Data Suite without the need for manual ETL processes. The system standardizes and models data by project, department, environment, and resource type, ensuring enterprises have a consistent, continuous, and analysis-ready data source for advanced analytics.
2. Real-time cost transparency
With real-time data updates, enterprises can track resource consumption across all levels of operations. This transparency enables managers to make timely decisions, understand the drivers behind cost fluctuations, and ensure cloud spending remains fully under control.
3. In-depth budget analysis and cost forecasting
By leveraging Advanced Cost Explorer, enterprises can strengthen budget oversight and minimize unexpected expenses through two built-in report templates: Advanced Cost Explorer and Forecasted Cost. Notably, the entire reporting system can be activated and operated without the need for specialized technical teams, helping organizations save time and operational resources.
Advanced Cost Explorer report
This report allows users to easily monitor consumption trends over time and evaluate alignment with allocated budgets. In addition, it provides multiple analytical perspectives tailored to different enterprise needs, enabling clear identification of optimized areas and cost hotspots that require improvement:
- View costs by project / team / application
- Analyze costs by resource type (compute, storage, database);
- Track costs by environment (production / staging / development / testing);
- Compare costs by business unit / branch / deployment region
Forecasted Cost report
In parallel, the Forecasted Cost report provides visibility into beginning-of-month costs, actual usage to date, and projected end-of-month spending.
By analyzing consumption trends, Forecasted Cost helps enterprises accurately assess the risk of exceeding budget thresholds, proactively allocate resources, and plan budgets effectively eliminating unexpected cost overruns.
Key value of using Advanced Cost Explorer
With standardized data and pre-built dashboards, enterprises can begin measuring, analyzing, and optimizing cloud costs within minutes rather than weeks or months using traditional approaches.
Experience Advanced Cost Explorer now: https://forms.office.com/r/EB0kpeqY6X
