Cost Control & Insights¶
Overview¶
Managing infrastructure costs efficiently is critical for any SaaS business. Cost Control & Insights provides complete visibility and control over your infrastructure and tenant costs across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, allowing you to analyze, optimize, and reduce expenses while maintaining performance and scalability.
Multi-Cloud Cost Tracking¶
Omnistrate tracks infrastructure costs across all supported cloud providers:
| Cloud Provider | Cost Tracking | Granularity |
|---|---|---|
| Supported | Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource | |
| Supported | Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource | |
| Supported | Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource | |
| Supported | Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource |
Cost data is collected automatically from each cloud provider and aggregated into a unified view, regardless of whether you deploy in your own cloud (BYOC) or use Omnistrate-hosted infrastructure.
Accessing Cost Insights¶
You can access cost insights from the Omnistrate console:
- Navigate to FinOps > Cost Insights in the left sidebar.
- Select the time range you want to analyze.
- Filter by environment, deployment, or resource to drill down into specific costs.
Cost Attribution¶
Use infrastructure tags to categorize and analyze spending across projects, teams, and tenants:
- Per-environment costs: Compare spending across development, staging, and production environments.
- Per-deployment costs: Track costs for individual deployments to identify the most expensive workloads.
- Per-resource costs: Break down costs by compute, storage, and networking for each resource.
- Per-tenant costs: Attribute infrastructure costs to individual customers for accurate cost allocation and margin analysis.
Optimization Strategies¶
Omnistrate provides several built-in mechanisms to reduce infrastructure costs:
Spot and reserved instances¶
Leverage discounted compute pricing from cloud providers:
- Spot instances: Use spare cloud capacity at significantly reduced rates for fault-tolerant workloads.
- Reserved instances: Commit to longer-term usage for predictable workloads and receive discounted pricing.
Auto-scaling and auto-stop¶
Dynamically adjust resources based on real-time demand:
- Auto-scaling: Automatically scale resources up or down based on CPU, memory, or custom metrics using autoscaling.
- Auto-stop: Automatically stop idle deployments to eliminate costs from unused resources.
Multi-tenancy¶
Maximize infrastructure efficiency through built-in multi-tenancy support:
- Share underlying infrastructure across multiple tenants to reduce per-customer costs.
- Use Omnistrate's tenancy models to balance isolation requirements with cost efficiency.
Deploy in your cloud¶
Deploy in your own cloud account or your customer's cloud account to:
- Use existing cloud credits and committed-use discounts.
- Avoid data transfer costs between providers.
- Take advantage of negotiated enterprise pricing.