Step-by-Step Guide

1. Welcome to Certero's cloud cost management platform. Our FinOps certified multi cloud platform helps you gain control of cloud costs.

2. Certero shows your tenant, or root level, multi cloud spend across AWS, Azure and GCP in a single, easy to access platform.

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The menu navigation allows us to drill into the FinOps lifecycles of

• Inform

• Optimize

• Operate

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Certero also follows the best practices of

• Visibility

• Observability

• Management

• Governance

5. Certero focus area

6. Click the Inform menu item to start getting Visibility

7. Open the Cost Explorer to start viewing and exploring your multi cloud costs

8. View costs by day, week or month. Click Daily

9. That will gives you granular costs. Click Weekly

10. Which will identify peaks during the monthly billing cycle

11. Now click the Cost Map that gives a clear, regional view of your multi cloud costs

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13. View the split of regional costs into individual cloud providers and identify any regions where there is unexpected or prohibited spend

14. Click Network Traffic

15. Now you can view total cost visibility for your network traffic. This valuable information helps you understand your egress costs

16. You can also drill down onto a particular area

17. Certero focus area

18. Open the Cost Explorer to start understanding your data and get Observability

19. Click View By to customize how you are viewing your data

20. Click Pool to get a view of your costs grouped into pools

21. View multi cloud spend split into different pools. In Certero, pools are brought in as subscription data, but can be edited to identify cost centers, projects and other specific customer conventions

22. You will also be able to see at a glance the overall costs for the selected billing period, and the previous billing period

23. Come back to your cost explorer, this time click on Owner to get a view of your costs by the user responsible for them

24. See costs that are attributed to owners in your organization. Click on an owner to get a detailed view of what they are responsible for.

25. Now you can see the owner and which costs are attributed to them. This is important for understanding Cost Allocation

26. Certero focus area

27. Understand the Management of cloud resources, and how they best fir to your requirements by clicking on Optimize

28. Now click on Optimization Insights

29. Customizable overview of Potential monthly savings to highlight actionable cost-saving opportunities, and see your month on month cloud cost management potential.

30. Click to reveal how much of your compute expenses are already optimized and discover further savings.

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32. Learn more about saving by optimizing or removing unattached volumes—see all recommendations here.

33. Customize your optimization strategies for your individual business requirements. Don't just rely on cloud vendor recommnedations

34. Scroll down to reveal more Optimization Insights

35. Here you will see Security Optimizations that will improve your security posture

36. Click on Resource Schedules for more savings opportunities

37. Save even more money by scheduling your cloud resources to turn off when they are not in use, Certero can do this automatically for you

38. See which Resourvce Schedules are active

39. Click back to the Executive Dashboard to view multi cloud optimizations at a high level

40. These are your potential Optimization Insights savings that you can make by managing your resources

41. And here you can view your active Resource Schedules

42. This concludes our Management tour. Please choose what area you would like to focus on next

43. Understand the Governance of cloud resources, and how you can put guardrails in place. Click on Operate to get started

44. Next, click on Tag Compliance

45. Tag Compliance and tag hygiene and is a fundamental principle of FinOps and cloud management strategies. Help manage Governance with Certero's policy builder

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47. Click on Quotas and Budgets

48. This helps to add governance and guardrails to your spend and resource counts and be automatically notified if exceeded.

49. Now click on Anomaly Identification

50. Click an anomaly to investigate over spending

51. View Anomalies by setting Evaluation Period and Threshold

52. Come back to the Executive Dashboard

53. Click to view all Policy Violations

54. View what has already Exceeded limit

55. Switch to the Forecasted overspend tab to see what us predicted to surpass their budget

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57. This brings an end to the Product Tour. Please contact us for next steps