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Everything you need to get value from CloudCost Lite in under an hour—plus downstream plans so you can plan rollouts with your finance and platform teams.
Follow these four steps to import data and activate dashboards. Each section links directly into the app so you can complete the flow while reading.
Step 1
Sign up with Google, GitHub, Azure AD, or email. The first user automatically becomes the owner of a new workspace.
Step 2
Link AWS, GCP, Azure or other providers directly — or upload a CSV if you prefer manual imports. Costs sync automatically once connected.
Step 3
Head to Cost Analysis to explore summary, breakdown, and trend widgets. Every widget uses the new ApiEnvelope states (ok/empty/degraded).
Step 4
Invite teammates under Settings → Members. Set up email alerts and digests to keep everyone informed. Slack and webhooks coming soon.
The import wizard looks for the following columns. Extra metadata is preserved in the JSON payload and surfaces inside cost event details.
| Column | Required | Example |
|---|---|---|
| date | Yes (ISO 8601) | 2024-03-01 |
| provider | Yes | aws |
| service | Recommended | AmazonEC2 |
| account/project | Optional | prod-master |
| region | Optional | eu-west-1 |
| amount | Yes (numeric) | 45.67 |
Currency: values are treated as the workspace base currency (default EUR). Server-side conversion ships with the Currency & Timezone epic.
Summary, breakdown, and trend widgets are powered by `/api/costs/*` routes using the ApiEnvelope contract. Empty and degraded states return detailed metadata to help triage missing data.
Month-to-date total, variance, and forecast. Ideal for finance updates.
Service-level split with filters for provider, tag, and account.
Daily cost trend chart with anomalies flagged when gap detection runs.
Download CSV snapshots from the dashboards. API access is read-only.
Email-based alerts are available today. Create budgets manually, tie thresholds to total spend, and subscribe teams through the digest scheduler. Slack, Teams, and webhook destinations are in development as part of the Notifications epic.
Define monthly or quarterly budgets from the Budgets page. Tracking relies on the same normalized cost data powering dashboards.
Daily and weekly email digests summarize variance, top spenders, and any open alerts.
Roadmap: richer alert conditions, runbook links, and workflow integrations once EPIC D reaches GA.
CloudCost Lite can push critical spend signals into the tools your engineering and finance teams already use. Owners and admins manage credentials under Settings → Integrations.
Automatically file tickets when budgets breach their thresholds. CloudCost stores API tokens encrypted server-side and only exposes masked values in the UI.
Tip: rotate the token quarterly; CloudCost preserves existing credentials when you update other fields.
Send every Jira-backed alert to a Zapier Catch Hook and branch into Slack, Teams, email, or custom actions. HMAC signing secrets are supported for verification.
Hint: leave the signing secret blank to keep the previously stored secret; enter a new value to rotate credentials and invalidate old shares.
Connect your cloud accounts directly for automatic cost sync. All major providers are supported with read-only access.
| Connector | Status | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
AWS | Available | Connect via IAM role (CloudFormation) or access keys. Supports Cost Explorer API. | Connect AWS |
Google Cloud Platform | Available | Connect via OAuth. Supports BigQuery billing exports. | Connect GCP |
Microsoft Azure | Available | Connect via OAuth. Supports Cost Management API. | Connect Azure |
DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode | Available | Connect via API token for automatic cost sync. | View providers |
CloudCost Lite runs on Next.js 15 with Prisma and NextAuth. We host on Vercel with PostgreSQL as the system of record. Cloud credentials are encrypted at rest and use read-only access only.
cloudcostlite.com with secure flags in productionUpcoming: Log drain integration, granular RBAC, and formal incident response playbooks (see Epic E).
Need help, security notifications, or to coordinate a pilot? Reach out and the core team will reply within one business day.
Status updates and maintenance windows are posted inside the app under Settings → Status.
Straight answers to the questions teams ask before piloting CloudCost Lite.
Cloud connectors (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode), cost analysis dashboards, CSV import, budgets, email digests, AI recommendations, forecasting, and anomaly detection. Slack/webhook alerts are in development.
Exchange rates are updated daily via an automated cron job. All 50+ currencies are supported with automatic conversion.
We use read-only IAM roles for AWS (via CloudFormation), OAuth tokens for GCP and Azure, and encrypted API tokens for other providers. Credentials are never logged or displayed after saving.
Weekly release notes ship in-app under Settings → Changelog. Major milestones also land on the public blog once live.