VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth

Filter and refine out-of-the-box graphical and tabular reports to correlate datasets for analysis against your business objectives. Create custom dashboards across clouds and easily build detailed reports from scratch, known as VMware Aria Cost FlexReports, across various dimensions to perform more granular analysis on cost, usage, and asset data.

Configure budgets to visualize your expected costs for the year in advance and compare it with actual spend as the year progresses. Create as many overall and categorized budgets as you need to run your business, aligned to your company’s fiscal year. Proactively alert stakeholders when costs are forecasted to exceed pre-defined budgets. Toggle on forecasting for reports to predict future values based on historical data for the interval you define.

Create cost reallocation rules to reassign indirect costs from your bill by the proportion of direct costs within your Perspective groups. You can manipulate costs directly in the platform by adding custom line items to the bill. insert charges or credits with a one-time or recurring frequency and perform enhanced chargeback or showback.

Terminate idle, unused resources to reduce wasted spend. Set custom thresholds and leverage actionable recommendations for rightsizing IaaS and PaaS services in your multi-cloud environment. Compare actual performance data with provisioned capacity to quickly identify assets that can be downsized or terminated.

Take advantage of cloud provider commitment discounts to reduce operational costs. Save time spent manually managing Reservations and Savings Plans using VMware Aria Cost's purchasing, optimization, and amortization capabilities. Manage discounts throughout their entire lifecycle to maximize savings.

Using VMware Aria Cost Anomaly Detection, you can view unexpected changes in spend by region, account, and service. Understand historical trends in behavior, including views into the cost impacts of the service, helping you pinpoint the most severe anomalies in your environment. Our machine learning algorithms adjust to periodic, seasonal, or other patterns that might be expected for workloads, and you can provide feedback directly to the algorithm to train it for your business.

Get visibility into container resource utilization and understand cost and usage trends in aggregate, per cluster, and namespace. See cluster costs broken down by application, team, cost center, and more. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth supports Kubernetes collection of resource data independent of cloud and supports containers-based cost distribution.

Use VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth’s dynamic policy engine to drive consistent operations and continuously monitor your environment. Quickly identify opportunities to proactively reduce spend, remediate risks, and streamline configuration. Get alerted when conditions deviate from your desired state and enable automated actions to execute changes in your environment—stop, start, resize, or terminate infrastructure—all at the frequency you define.

Plan a migration from your data center to the public cloud of your choice with the VMware Aria Cost Migration Assessment. Understand the total cost of ownership of migrating based on existing configuration or utilization. Compare the cost of moving workloads in different regions and availability zones, and optimize the use of reservations, to make smarter, more informed decisions.