TrueSight Cloud Cost Control overview

TrueSight Cloud Cost Control is a cost management solution that enables you to analyze the current and future costs and utilization of your multi-cloud infrastructure services. It provides insight and control over your cloud costs.

The following cloud providers are supported:

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
On-premises

You can access TrueSight Cloud Cost Control by using any supported mobile device or desktop browser.

Business value

Organizations are adding public cloud infrastructure to their on-premises virtual and private cloud environments as part of their digital transformation. This shift to public clouds is increasing the operational expenses, which is affecting the balance between the IT capital and operational expenditures of organizations.

With a single view of on-premises and public cloud infrastructure expenditures, TrueSight Cloud Cost Control enables you to track and analyze infrastructure costs and utilization, identify wasted spending, and forecast future costs. The ability to easily simulate migrations to the public cloud providers and compare on-premises and public cloud infrastructure costs helps you to run your applications on the most cost-efficient infrastructure.

Features

The following table provides a list of the key features of the product:

Feature	Description
Cost visibility	Gain visibility into current and projected cloud infrastructure service expenditures and utilization. Access summarized and detailed views of the cloud costs based on different dimensions. Perform in-depth analysis of the current and projected cost estimates.
Cost analytics	Forecast cloud costs based on infrastructure service consumption and upcoming needs. Report cloud costs based on stakeholder and business needs. Track wasted resources.
Cloud migration planning	Estimate cost of migrating your servers to the public cloud. Compare the on-premises and public cloud service costs. Simulate the migration of servers based on resource utilization and benchmarks.
Budget management	Assign budgets to applications or business services. Analyze and manage the budget of a specific business service. Identify the business services with over-allocated or underutilized budgets. Set flexible thresholds and get notifications as per rules. Get automatic notifications when applications are forecasted to go over budget.
Cost optimization recommendations	Determine the idle or unused VMs in the infrastructure. Determine the VMs with underutilized resources. Obtain recommendations to handle the idle and overallocated VMs. Determine the estimated savings that you can achieve by implementing the recommendations.
AWS reserved instance management	Monitor the use of existing reserved instances. Obtain recommendations to purchase reserved instances to reduce current costs. Determine the estimated savings that you can achieve by implementing the recommendations.

Benefits

Reduce infrastructure costs with visibility into expenditures and utilization.
Identify and eliminate wasted infrastructure costs.
Control budgets with forecasts of on-premises and public cloud costs.
Increase resource utilization with simulated migrations and ongoing resource optimization.
Align cloud usage and costs with an IT business strategy.

Video introduction

The following video (1:55) provides a brief introduction of the product.

https://youtu.be/d8LXSDmx9FM

Terminology

Review the following list of terms and concepts to understand TrueSight Cloud Cost Control:

List of terms and concepts