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Hi Team,
Please find the inline response below.
We understand that you want to prevent certain users from altering budget amounts - but which users? only Cloudy Admins? what about Budget Owners (the user who created the Budget)?
=> All users except Cloudy Admins. My team create budgets on behalf of Account/Subscription owners. Each year, our Finance team requests all AWS account and Azure subscription owners to fill in the forecast for the next year for their accounts. After collecting all the budget forecast details, the finance team forwards them to us (Cloudy Admins) to update the budgets in Cloudability. If any modifications are required, the account owner/support team creates a request ticket for us. Since there is no permission to lock the updated budget info, users have started modifying/altering the budgets, which is affecting the entire effort of cloud governance team.
You state that you create budgets for each AWS and Azure subscription... do you do this manually or via API?
=>both the ways from portal or via API.
How are those budgets organized into Views? are they all contained within a single View or do you have separate Views for groupings of Accounts/Budgets?
=> Each account has single view and budget.
Do you also create a "master" budget that is the sum of all the individual budgets?
=>not currently, may be in future.
My team maintains the Cloudability access, views creation, budgets creation and update. We have a custom role "Cloudability ONLY User - IQVIA" for all regular users including the subscription/account owners. If any new permission available to lock the budgets, then we can assign that permission to "Cloudability ONLY User - IQVIA" role.
Let me know if you need any additional information on this idea.