--- title: "Product Tour for CerteroX Cloud Management" canonical: "https://ai-docs.certero.com/space/CXCM/132350023/Product%20Tour%20for%20CerteroX%20Cloud%20Management" format: markdown ---  # 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.  ### 3. The menu navigation allows us to drill into the FinOps lifecycles of - Inform - Optimize - Operate  ### 4. 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  ### 12.  ### 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.  ### 31.  ### 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  ### 46.  ### 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  ### 56.  ### 57. This brings an end to the *Product Tour*. Please contact us for next steps 