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I agree with this suggestion and would like to add a more detailed explanation.
Cost anomaly alerts should support thresholds based on both dollar amount and percentage change. This would help reduce false positives and make alerts more relevant.
For example, smaller accounts may show a large percentage increase, but the actual dollar impact may be very small. Larger accounts may show a large dollar increase, but the percentage change may be small and expected. In practice, teams often need to evaluate both measures together to decide whether a cost change requires action.
Currently, Cloudability cost anomaly detection allows an alert threshold to be set using either dollar change or percentage change, but not both together. A more flexible approach would allow users to configure dollar and percentage thresholds together and then choose whether an alert should trigger when either threshold is crossed or only when both thresholds are crossed.
The Cost Anomaly Detection within AWS provides this type of configuration option today, as shown in the attached screenshot.