“What is the cloud bill actually paying for?”
Cloud Spend Optimization breaks the cloud bill down by service, team, application and product, and adds it to the same total as people, vendors and AI. It checks the bill against the invoice, finds what you are paying for and not using, shows whether your prepaid commitments are the right size, and turns every finding into one ranked list of what to do next.
Rooms you open
Methods supported
Part of Fund & Optimize · How do we plan, allocate and optimize resources?
The pressure
Cloud cost tools break down the bill well, then stop. Nobody can say which team, product or project is paying for servers sitting idle. Savings stay “identified” forever because nobody tracks whether they happened, and when an application is retired, its servers often keep running.
What it looks like today
What changes
A cloud console separate from everything else
Cloud as part of the one total, comparable with your own data centers
One confusing commitment number
Two clear answers: how much usage is covered, and how much of the commitment is used
Savings identified
Savings ranked, approved and confirmed in the actual spend
Two questions, one view
Coverage asks how much of your usage a prepaid commitment protects. Utilization asks how much of the commitment you actually use. Mixing them up is the most common cloud reporting mistake. Here they sit side by side — next to a ranked list of savings that turns findings into approved, owned work.
Where other tools stop
Cloud consoles report these as separate widgets and stop at estimated savings. They cannot see people costs, vendors or what the spend was meant to support.
The rooms
Each room answers one question a leader actually asks, with the view that answers it and the measures that say whether it is working.
A room is a ready-made view that answers one leadership question, built on the same shared data as every other room.
Room 01
“What does the cloud cost, and who is using it?”
The bill in the industry-standard format (FOCUS), by service, team, application and product.
How you know it is working
Room 02
“Does the provider’s bill match the invoice, and what we assigned?”
Bill, invoice and assigned cost checked against each other, with credits traced to where they land.
How you know it is working
Room 03
“What are we paying for and not using?”
Idle, oversized and orphaned resources across cloud, AI and environments, with unusual spikes traced to their cause.
How you know it is working
Room 04
“Are our prepaid commitments covering the right usage at the right price?”
How much usage the commitments cover, how much of each commitment is used, price against volume, and the renewals behind the spend.
How you know it is working
Room 05
“Of everything we could do, what is worth doing first?”
One ranked list of savings against effort — from resizing to retiring to renegotiating — with an owner and an approval step.
How you know it is working
Who it is for
“What are we paying for and not using — and who owns it?
“Does the cloud bill match the invoice and what we assigned?
“Which resizing moves are worth the effort?
“What is the cloud doing to the cost of what we fund?
What it replaces
How it is licensed
Cloud Spend Optimization is licensed within Fund & Optimize, with Cost Allocation included underneath.
Start in IT, one function or a division. Cost Allocation is included automatically with every module.
See pricingMethods and frameworks
Dotwork does not ask you to adopt a new method. The frameworks your teams run become views over the same model.
FinOps
The practice of making teams accountable for what they spend on cloud.
FOCUS
The industry-standard format for cloud and software billing data.
TBM
Technology Business Management: a standard way to categorize IT spend and who uses it.
More in Fund & Optimize
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Explore“What does this AI actually cost — and what did it return?”
Explore“Do we have the people for what we just funded?”
Explore“What did we buy, what have we used, and who owns the renewal?”
ExploreThe model underneath
Steer, Fund & Optimize and Govern & Deliver all read and write the same Enterprise Operating Model. The first module you license builds the model. Every module after it adds context instead of another silo — and Dotwork AI reads all of it, stopping where the decision is yours.
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