Budgeting & Forecasting
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Executive Overview

Total Cloud Spend
$4.82M
▲ 8.3% vs budget
YTD across all clouds
Budget Remaining
$2.18M
● 31.2% of annual
7 months remaining
Forecast Variance
+$340K
▲ Over annual forecast
Revised Q3 projection
Savings Realized
$892K
▼ 18.5% cost avoidance
RI + Savings Plans
Monthly Spend vs Budget vs Forecast
Actual · Budget · Forecast trend
M Q Y
Spend by Cloud Platform
Top Services by Cost
Budget Utilization by Platform

Budget Monitor

Annual Budget
$7.0M
FY 2026 total cloud
YTD Spend
$4.82M
● 68.8% consumed
Jan–Jul 2026
At-Risk Budgets
7
▲ 3 critical
Exceed 90% threshold
Alerts Triggered
23
▲ This month
5 require action

Budget by Department / Resource Group

Department Platform Budget Spent Utilization Forecast EOM Status
Engineering AWS $1,200,000 $1,154,200
96.2%
$1,248,000 AT RISK
Data Platform GCP $800,000 $896,000
112%
$968,000 OVER
Product Azure $600,000 $487,200
81.2%
$526,000 ON TRACK
DevOps / Infra AWS $500,000 $462,000
92.4%
$509,000 AT RISK
Analytics OCI $350,000 $210,000
60.0%
$228,000 ON TRACK
ML / AI GCP $900,000 $841,500
93.5%
$952,000 AT RISK

Forecasting

Q3 Forecast
$1.94M
▲ +12% vs Q2
Model confidence: 87%
EOY Projection
$7.34M
▲ $340K over budget
Trend-based model
Forecast Accuracy
91.2%
▼ Improved +2.1%
Last 3-month MAPE
Savings Opportunity
$428K
● RI + CUD recommendations
If actioned this month
12-Month Spend Forecast with Confidence Bands
Actual (Jan–Jul) + AI-powered forecast (Aug–Dec) with ±15% confidence interval
Trend Linear ML
Forecast by Service Category
AWS Cost Explorer Forecast

Cloud Chargeback

Total Allocated
$4.61M
● 95.6% of total spend
Charged to BUs this month
Unallocated
$210K
▲ 4.4% untagged
Requires tagging action
Business Units
14
● Across 4 clouds
Active cost centers
Shared Services
$312K
● Proportionally split
Networking, Security
Chargeback by Business Unit
Allocation Method

Showback

Departments Viewing
22
▼ +4 new this quarter
Showback subscribers
Avg Cost Awareness
74%
▼ +11% MoM
Internal survey score
Waste Identified
$198K
▼ From showback insights
Idle & orphaned resources
Reports Generated
148
● This month
Auto & on-demand
Showback Cost by Department
Engineering
$1.15M
Data Platform
$896K
ML / AI
$841K
Product
$487K
DevOps / Infra
$462K
Analytics
$210K
Security
$156K
Month-over-Month Delta by Dept

Spend Trend Analysis

MoM Growth
+6.2%
Jul vs Jun
YoY Growth
+34.1%
2026 vs 2025
Compute %
42%
Largest category
Storage %
18%
Growing +2% MoM
Anomalies
3
Detected this month
24-Month Spend Trend by Category
Anomaly Detection
Cost Per Unit (CU) Trend

Scenario Planning

Conservative
Baseline
$7.0M
On budget · No new workloads
Moderate Growth
Expected
$7.34M
+$340K · 15% workload growth
Accelerated
Aggressive
$8.1M
+$1.1M · New AI/ML platform
Scenario Comparison · Monthly Projection
Cost Levers by Scenario
Commitment Coverage

Alert Center

Critical
3
Immediate action required
Warning
8
Budget threshold alerts
Info
12
Forecast notifications
Resolved Today
6
Actioned by team
Data Platform GCP budget exceeded
Current spend ($896K) is 112% of the $800K monthly budget. Overage of $96K detected.
CRITICAL · GCP · DATA-PLATFORM · 2h ago
ML/AI projected to exceed annual budget
EOY forecast shows $952K vs $900K budget. Immediate optimization review recommended.
CRITICAL · GCP · ML-TEAM · 4h ago
3 untagged resources spending $45K/day
Unallocated resources totaling $210K identified. Tagging policy violation in prod account.
CRITICAL · AWS · UNTAGGED · 6h ago
Engineering AWS at 96.2% budget consumption
$1.15M spent of $1.2M budget with 4 weeks remaining in billing period.
WARNING · AWS · ENGINEERING · 8h ago
DevOps Infra at 92.4% — threshold exceeded
Alert triggered at 90% threshold. EOM forecast of $509K vs $500K budget.
WARNING · AWS · DEVOPS · 12h ago
Azure Reserved Instance expiring in 14 days
$84K/yr commitment expires Feb 28. Renewal at current rate or switch to PAYG required.
WARNING · AZURE · PRODUCT · 1d ago
GCP Committed Use Discount opportunity
GCP Recommender identified $128K annual savings through 1-year CUD commitment for BigQuery.
INFO · GCP · ANALYTICS · 1d ago
Q3 forecast model updated
New forecast: $1.94M for Q3 2026 based on updated usage patterns. Confidence: 87%.
INFO · ALL CLOUDS · FORECASTING · 2d ago

Multi-Cloud View

☁ AWS
$2.14M
▲ 44.4% of total
Budget: $2.2M · 97.3%
☁ Azure
$1.28M
● 26.6% of total
Budget: $1.5M · 85.3%
☁ GCP
$1.10M
▲ 22.8% of total
Budget: $950K · 115.8%
☁ OCI
$300K
▼ 6.2% of total
Budget: $350K · 85.7%
Monthly Spend by Platform
Budget Utilization by Platform
Platform-Specific Savings Opportunities

Initiative Timeline

Budget Actions & Savings Timeline
JAN 2026 · COMPLETED
AWS Savings Plans Commitment — $480K/yr
Purchased 1-year Compute Savings Plans for Engineering and DevOps workloads. Estimated savings: $120K vs on-demand.
AWSSavings PlansEngineering
FEB 2026 · COMPLETED
Azure Tagging Policy Enforcement
Implemented mandatory tagging for all Azure resources. Unallocated spend dropped from 12% to 4.4%.
AzureGovernanceFinOps
MAR 2026 · IN PROGRESS
GCP BigQuery CUD Purchase Decision
Evaluating 1-year Committed Use Discount for BigQuery and Vertex AI workloads. Potential savings: $128K/yr.
GCPCUDAnalyticsML/AI
APR 2026 · PLANNED
Budget Actions Automation (AWS Budgets)
Implement automated stop/scale-down actions on non-prod environments when budgets breach 80% threshold.
AWSAutomationBudget Actions
Q3 2026 · PLANNED
OCI Reserved Capacity for Analytics Platform
Plan to migrate Analytics to OCI Reserved Capacity. Projected savings vs flex: $62K/yr on compute.
OCIReserved CapacityAnalytics
Q4 2026 · PLANNED
FY2027 Budget Planning & Scenario Modeling
CCoE FinOps team to lead annual budget cycle using ML-based forecasting integrated with business unit capacity plans.
All CloudsCCoEFY2027

CCoE FinOps Maturity

FinOps Maturity
Crawl+
▼ Advancing to Walk
Q2 2026 assessment
Tag Coverage
95.6%
▼ Target: 99%
Resource allocation score
Cost Awareness
74%
▼ Team survey score
Engineering teams
Optimization Index
62/100
▼ Up from 48 in Q1
Composite score
CCoE Capability Radar
Maturity Progression (Quarters)